Novel carbohydrate specificity of the 16-kDa galectin from Caenorhabditis elegans: Binding to blood group precursor oligosaccharides (type 1, type 2, Tα, and Tβ) and gangliosides

Glycobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 451-461

  Ahmed, Hafiz ^a   Bianchet, Mario A ^b   Mario Amzel, L ^b   Hirabayashi, Jun ^c   Kasai, Ken Ichi ^c   Giga Hama, Yuko ^d   Tohda, Hideki ^d   Vasta, Gerardo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

16 kDa galectin; C.Elegans; Gangliosides; Specificity; Type 1, Type 2, T , T blood group

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; GALECTIN; GANGLIOSIDE; GLUTAMINE; HYDROXYL GROUP; LECTIN; LIGAND; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BLOOD GROUP SYSTEM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INFLAMMATION; METASTASIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; GALECTINS; GANGLIOSIDES; GLYCOPROTEINS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0036668095     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwf052     Document Type: Article

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