... The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2019 angiogenesis cancer biology matrix biology proteoglycans signaling tumor microenvironments Malignant tumors depend on a constant supply of oxygen provided by an aberrant vascular network...

... proteoglycans (PGs) bearing glycosaminoglycan (GAG) polysaccharides — heparan/chondroitin sulfate (HS/CS) — are involved in initial flavivirus attachment and during the expression of non-structural viral proteins play a role in disease aetiology. Recent work has shown that ZIKV-infected cells are protected from...