Adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins: Insights into their ligand selectivity using natural glycoproteins and glycotopes

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 705, Issue , 2011, Pages 117-141

  Wu, Albert M ^a   Singh, Tanuja ^b   Liu, Jia Hau ^b   André, Sabine ^b   Lensch, Martin ^b   Siebert, Hans Christian ^b   Krzeminski, Mickael ^b   Bonvin, Alexandre M J J ^b   Kaltner, Herbert ^b   Wu, June H ^b   Gabius, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agglutinin; Docking; Glycosylation; Lectin phylogeny; Sugar code

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GALECTIN; GALECTIN 1; GLYCOCONJUGATE; GLYCOPROTEIN; RICIN; SUGAR; DRUG DERIVATIVE; EPITOPE; GALACTOSE; LIGAND;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; LECTIN BINDING SITE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL ADHESION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL ADHESION; CHICKENS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITOPES; GALACTOSE; GALECTINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; LIGANDS; MAMMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80054031288     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7877-6_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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