Part 1. Glycans in innate immunity of dendritic cells.- Chapter 1) Historical expansion of defense system.- Chapter 2) Columbus era to modern revolution in immunological defense system.- Chapter 3) Historical profile of defense constituents and progress in innte immune repertoire.- Chapter 4) The outline of innate immunity.- Chapter 5) Autophagy from microbial invaders and self-associated molecular patterns (SAMPs) of innate immune cells.- Part 2.
Dendritic cells (DCs).- Chapter 6) General biology of DCs.- Chapter 7) Classification and different function of DCs.- Chapter 8) Glycan biosynthesis in eukaryotes.- Chapter 9) Glycans in cell recognition and evolutionary adaptation in organisms.- Chapter 10) Changes in glycan structure involve in co-regulated expression of glycan-binding lectin counterparts.- Chapter 11) Evolution of lectin: alternative splicing contributes to variation for glycan binding receptors.- Chapter 12) Glycan regulation of NK cell receptors.
- Chapter 13) Carbohydrate recognition of target antigens by DCs during infection and inflammation.- Chapter 14) Glycan-specific trafficking receptors in DCs maturation.- Chapter 15) Glycan ligands in trafficking of DC migration.- Chapter 16) Chemokine receptors in DCs trafficking.- Chapter 17) Glycan structure-recognizing selectins in DC-endothelium interaction during infection and inflammation.- Chapter 18) Glycans activate the innate immune system.- Chapter 19) Innate immune lectin receptors of Siglec, DC-SIGN, Galectin and TLR in DCs.- Chapter 20) Galectins.
- Chapter 21) DC-specific ICAM-3-grabbing non-integrin, DC-SIGNB (CD209).- Chapter 22) Other DCs-derivd receptors.- Chapter 23) Toll-like receptors (TLRs).- Chapter 24) CD33 and CD33-related Siglecs in pathogen recognition and endocytosis of DC in the innate immune system.- Chapter 25) Pathogenic suppression of the pathogen-specific host immune response.- Chapter 26) DCs tumor immunotherapy through sialyl binding of DCs to T cells.