CancerLectinDB: A database of lectins relevant to cancer

Glycoconjugate Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 191-198

  Damodaran, Deepa ^a   Jeyakani, Justin ^a   Chauhan, Alok ^a   Kumar, Nirmal ^a   Chandra, Nagasuma R ^a   Surolia, Avadhesha ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Biochemical; Cancer; Carbohydrate specificities; Database; Domain architecture; Lectins; Sequence; Taxonomic

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 40949087759     PISSN: 02820080     EISSN: 15734986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10719-007-9085-5     Document Type: Article

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