Playing modular puzzle with adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins: Design and testing of a hybrid to unravel structure-activity relationships

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1003-1012

  Ludwig, Anna Kristin ^a   Vértesy, Sabine ^a   Michalak, Malwina ^b   Manning, Joachim C ^a   André, Sabine ^a   Kübler, Dieter ^b   Kopitz, Jürgen ^b   Kaltner, Herbert ^a   Gabius, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agglutinin; Glycosylation; Lectin; Phosphorylation; Sialylation

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; BETA GALACTOSIDE; GALECTIN; GALECTIN 3; GALECTIN 8; GLYCOPROTEIN; BETA-GALACTOSIDE; GALACTOSIDE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LACTOSE; LGALS8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; JEJUNUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; STAINING;

AGGLUTININS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EPIDIDYMIS; GALACTOSIDES; GALECTIN 3; GALECTINS; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LACTOSE; MALE; MICE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84994803302     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: 18755305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929866523666160930123421     Document Type: Article

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