Table 1.

Glycosyltransferases associated to mucin O-glycosylation expressed in the conjunctival epithelium of normal subjects and patients with non-Sjögren’s dry eye.^*#

Common name	Accession number	Normal subjects	Dry eye patients	p value
GALNT1	NM_020474.2	185.37	149.53	>0.05
GALNT2	NM_004481	135.23	139.47	>0.05
GALNT3	NM_004482.2	61.70	66.20	>0.05
GALNT4	NM_003774	39.37	32.83	>0.05
GALNT5	NM_014568.1	72.70	82.30	>0.05
GALNT6	NM_007210.2	106.20	99.87	>0.05
GALNT7	NM_017423.1	280.57	292.47	>0.05
GALNT8	NM_017417.1	9.10	9.20	>0.05
GALNT10	NM_198321.2	56.97	53.20	>0.05
GALNT11	NM_022087.1	65.23	54.90	>0.05
GALNT12	NM_024642.1	222.17	180.30	>0.05
GALNT14	NM_024572.1	56.63	64.97	>0.05
GALNT20	NM_022479	28.40	41.70	>0.05
Core 1 β3Gal-T	NM_020156.1	67.00	75.97	>0.05
ST3Gal-I	NM_003033.1	44.37	41.10	>0.05
ST3Gal-IV	NM_006278.1	299.17	291.17	>0.05
ST6GalNAc-I	NM_018414.2	251.30	241.00	>0.05
ST6GalNAc-II	NM_006456.1	34.20	23.33	>0.05
ST6GalNAc-IV	NM_014403.1	39.47	30.07	>0.05
C2GnT-M	NM_004751.1	1089.97	1260.17	>0.05

^*Data on glycogene expression is available at http://www.functionalglycomics.org/glycomics/publicdata/microarray.jsp, ref. MAEXP_310_052307.

^#Expression values represent the geometric mean of intensities corresponding to 9 normal subjects and 9 dry eye patients as described by Mantelli et al.¹⁸