Authors Qian Wang1; Zachery Lewis2, 3; Andres Guerrero1; David Mills2, 3; Carlito Lebrilla1 Institutes 1Department of Chemistry, UC Davis, Davis, CA; 2Department of Viticulture & Enology, UC Davis, Davis, CA; 3Department of Food Science & Technology, UC Davis, Davis, CA Novel Aspect A fast and simple method employing direct MALDI MS to compare the affinities between oligosaccharides […]

Authors Dayoung Park; Narine Arabyan; Cynthia Williams; Ting Song; Bart Weimer; Carlito Lebrilla Institutes University of California, Davis, Davis, CA Novel Aspect Methodology to analyze thousands of membrane glycan structures simultaneously with linkage and isomer differentiation and identify glycans involved in infection. Introduction Cell membranes consist of proteins that contain short saccharide chains called glycans, […]

Authors Andres Guerrero1; Yanhong Li1; Salem Alkanaimsh2; Lucas Arzola2; Bryce Hashimoto2; Minsook Hwang3; Aye Tu4; My Phu4; Abhaya Dandekar4; Bryce Falk3; Somen Nandi5; Raymond Rodriguez5; Karen McDonald2; Xi Chen1; Carlito Lebrilla1 Institutes 1UC Davis, Chemistry Department, Davis, CA;2UC Davis, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Davis, CA; 3UC Davis, Plant Pathology, Davis, CA; 4UC Davis, Plant Science, Davis, […]

Authors Cynthia Williams; Anne Fenton; Lauren Nagy; Qiuting Hong; L. Renee Ruhaak; Satya Dandekar; Carlito Lebrilla Institutes UC Davis, Davis, CA Novel Aspect Monitoring the degree of glycosylation with the absolute protein quantitation in plasma of HIV patients. Introduction The immune system is highly dysregulated in patients with HIV infection. Current studies aim to understand […]

Khaldi, N., et al. (2014). “Predicting the important enzyme players in human breast milk digestion.” J Agric Food Chem. Human milk is known to contain several proteases, but little is known about whether these enzymes are active, which proteins they cleave and their relative contribution to milk protein digestion in vivo. We analyzed the mass […]