Carbohydrate structural units in glycosphingolipids as receptors for Gal and GalNac reactive lectins

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 27, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 593-600

  Wu, Albert M ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Applied lectins; Brain and ganglioside; Disaccharide units; Glycotopes in GSLs

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; EPITOPE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; LECTIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BLOOD GROUP; BRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; HUMANS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036696936     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020263730943     Document Type: Article

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