Oligosaccharide specificity of galectins: A search by frontal affinity chromatography

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1572, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 232-254

  Hirabayashi, Jun ^a   Hashidate, Tomomi ^a   Arata, Yoichiro ^a   Nishi, Nozomu ^b,c   Nakamura, Takanori ^b   Hirashima, Mitsuomi ^b,c   Urashima, Tadasu ^d   Oka, Toshihiko ^e   Futai, Masamitsu ^e   Muller, Werner E G ^f   Yagi, Fumio ^g   Kasai, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Galpharma Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparative glycomics; Dissociation constant; Frontal affinity chromatography; Galectin; Pyridylamination

Indexed keywords

CHICK GALECTIN PROTEIN; ECALECTIN; GALECTIN; GALECTIN 1; GALECTIN 2; GALECTIN 3; GALECTIN 7; GALECTIN 8; ISOPROTEIN; MUSHROOM GALECTIN PROTEIN; NEMATODE GALECTIN PROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SPONGE GALECTIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; FRONTAL AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BINDING SITES; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; GALACTOSIDES; GALECTIN 1; GALECTIN 3; GALECTINS; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PHYLOGENY;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037136406     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4165(02)00311-2     Document Type: Review

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