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Every orchestra needs a conductor. In our cells, heparan sulfate - or HS - takes on that role. HS are highly complex sulfated sugar chains that guides hundreds of proteins like instruments in an ensemble, ensuring that signals are played in balance and on time. But when the machinery that builds HS is defective, the orchestra falters, which is associated with diseases such as cancer, chronic inflammation, and neurodegeneration.
HS Sequencing is a collaborative research consortium of Utrecht University, Free University Berlin, University of Copenhagen, Karolinska Institute, Radboud University, Waters Inc., Opocrin, and IntelliHep. Supported by the EU FET-OPEN program, breakthrough technologies have been developed to decode HS offering the prospect to restore HS codes in diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.
