Towards defining the role of glycans as hardware in information storage and transfer: Basic principles, experimental approaches and recent progress

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 5-23

  Solís, Dolores ^a   Jimenez Barbero J ^b   Kaltner, H ^d   Romero, A ^c   Siebert, H C ^d   Von Der Lieth, C W ^e   Gabius, H J ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crystallography; Drug design; Lectin; Molecular modeling; NMR spectroscopy; Sugar code

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LECTIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COVALENT BOND; DRUG DESIGN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035208055     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016802     Document Type: Review

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