Research
19,795 papers- Gangliosides as Signaling Regulators in Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
- Gangliosides of the Nervous System.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2018
- O-acetylated Gangliosides as Targets for Cancer Immunotherapy.Cells · 2020
- Gangliosides and atherosclerosis.Lipids · 1994
- Labeled gangliosides: their synthesis and use in biological studies.FEBS letters · 2018
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Location
- Function
- Common gangliosides
- Structures of the common gangliosides
- Pathology
- References
- External links
upright=1.35|thumb|Structure of GM1 ganglioside
A ganglioside is a molecule composed of a glycosphingolipid (ceramide and oligosaccharide) with one or more sialic acids (e.g. N-acetylneuraminic acid, NANA) linked on the sugar chain. NeuNAc, an acetylated derivative of the carbohydrate sialic acid, makes the head groups of gangliosides anionic at pH 7, which distinguishes them from globosides.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gangliosides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.