aa	amino acids
AFTN	autonomously functioning thyroid nodules
AITD	autoimmune thyroid disease
Akt	protein kinase B (PKB)
ASGPR	asialoglycoprotein receptor
APC	antigen-presenting cell
ATC	anaplastic thyroid cancer
cAMP	cyclic 3′,5′-adenosine monophosphate
CMP	cytidine monophosphate
CH	congenital hypothyroidism
CHO	Chinese hamster ovary cell line
CHO-Lec	glycosylation mutant of CHO
Con A	Concanavalin A lectin
CRD	carbohydrate recognition domain
DIT	diiodotyrosine
DSPTC	diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma
Endo H	endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase H
ER	endoplasmic reticulum
FSH	follicle-stimulating hormone
FTC	follicular thyroid cancer
Fuc	fucose
FUCA	α-l-fucosidase
Fut8	α1,6-fucosyltransferase
G0F	agalactosylated IgG N-glycans with core fucose
G0FN	agalactosylated IgG N-glycans with bisecting GlcNAc and core fucose
G2S	bigalactosylated IgG N-glycans with sialic acid
Gal	galactose
GalNAc	N-acetylgalactosamine
GD	Graves’ disease
GlcNAc	N-acetylglucosamine
Glut1	glucose transporter
GnT	N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase
GT	glycosyltransferase
hCG	human chorionic gonadotropin
HEV	high endothelial venule
HT	Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
IGF-1	insulin-like growth factor 1
IgG	immunoglobulin
IP3	inositol triphosphate
LacNAc	N-acetyllactosamine
LCA	Lens culinaris agglutinin
LH	luteinizing hormone
LRR	leucine-rich repeat
MAA	Maackia amurensis agglutinin
MALDI-TOF-MS	matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Man	mannose
ManR	mannose receptor
MAPK	mitogen-activated protein kinase
MCR	metabolic clearance rate
MIT	monoiodotyrosine
mTOR	mammalian target of rapamycin
NIS	sodium/iodide symporter
OGA	O-GlcNAc hydrolase
OGT	O-GlcNAc transferase
PBMC	peripheral blood mononuclear cell
PD-TSH	pars distalis thyrotropin
PHA-L	Phaseolus vulgaris lectin
phTSH	pituitary human thyrotropin
PI3K	phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase
PNGase F	peptide N-glycosidase F
PTC	papillary thyroid carcinoma
PTM	post-translational protein modification
PT-TSH	pars tuberalis thyrotropin
RHL	rat hepatic lectin
rhTSH	recombinant human thyrotropin
SA	sialic acid
Ser	serine
sLeX	sialyl-LewisX
SNA	Sambucus nigra agglutinin
ST	sialyltransferase
ST3Gal4	sialyltransferase 4
ST6Gal1	sialyltransferase 1
ST6GalNAc2	N-acetylgalactosamine-specific α2,6-sialyltransferase 2
ST8Sia	α2,8-sialyltransferase
T3	triiodothyronine
T4	thyroxine
TC	thyroid cancer
Tg	thyroglobulin
Thr	threonine
TPO	thyroperoxidase
TRβ1	thyroid hormone receptor β
TRH	thyrotropin-releasing hormone
TSH	thyroid-stimulating hormone
TSHR	thyrotropin receptor
UDP	uridine 5′-diphosphate
UEA I	Ulex europaeus agglutinin I