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Correction to: Recognition factors of Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA) and their accommodation sites
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Roles of the structural units, glycotopes / mammalian N-glycans for Con A-glycan interactions, their codes, and their recognition factors
The binding property of Con A has been studied intensively and applied widely to glycoconjugates / glycobiology for over 80 years. However, its role and functional relationship of Con A with these mammalian st...
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Recognition factors of Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA) and their accommodation sites
Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA) is one of the well known plant lectins that are widely used in clinical serology to differentiate human blood group A1 and A2 erythrocytes and also applied to glycobiology. Howe...
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Loci and motifs of the GalNAcα1 → 3/O related glycotopes in the mammalian glycoconjugates and their lectin recognition roles
Galα1 → and GalNAcα1 → are the two essential key sugars in human blood group AB active glycotopes, in which GalNAcα1 → related sequences are located at both sides of the nonreducing and the reducing ends of human...
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Glycan structures and their recognition roles in the human blood group ABH/Ii, Lea, b, x, y and Sialyl Lea,x active cyst glycoproteins
Human ovarian cyst glycoproteins (HOC, cyst gps) isolated from pseudomucinous type of human ovarian cyst fluids is one of the richest and pioneer sources for studying biosynthesis, structures and functional ro...
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Lectins and ELLSA as powerful tools for glycoconjugate recognition analyses
Lectins, in combination with our established enzyme-linked lectin sorbent assay (ELLSA) and inhibition study, have been used as powerful tools in many glycoconjugate recognition studies. In this short review, ...
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Lectins
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Increasing the depth of mass spectrometry-based glycomic coverage by additional dimensions of sulfoglycomics and target analysis of permethylated glycans
Hog or porcine gastric mucin resembles the human source in carrying not only blood group antigens but also the rather rare α4-GlcNAc-capped terminal epitope functionally implicated in protection against Helicobac...
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Lectins
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Glycotope Structures and Intramolecular Affinity Factors of Plant Lectins for Tn/T Antigens
O-glycosylation is a widely distributed posttranslational modification initiated by the addition of GalNAc to serine or threonine residues of polypeptide chains. The GalNAc may be further substit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Five Bacterial Lectins (PA-IL, PA-IIL, RSL, RS-IIL, and CV-IIL): Interactions with Diverse Animal Cells and Glycoproteins
Among the ten different lectins discovered in the old biochemistry laboratory at Bar-Ilan University during the years 1972–2006 (Fig. 9.1), five were isolated from three soil bacteria: Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA)...
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Recognition Roles of Mammalian Structural Units and Polyvalency in Lectin–Glycan Interactions
Lectins are an important class of proteins or glycoproteins of nonimmune origin that specifically or selectively bind carbohydrate moieties of complex carbohydrates. They play many critical roles in life proce...
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Human Blood Group ABH/Ii, Lea,b,x,y, and Sialyl Lea,x Glycotopes; Internal Structures; and Immunochemical Roles of Human Ovarian Cyst Glycoproteins
Antigenic determinants (glycotopes) of human blood group ABH antigens are located on the complex glycoconjugates. These ABH glycotope-containing glycans are generally conjugated with polypeptides or ceramides ...
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Adhesion/Growth-Regulatory Galectins: Insights into Their Ligand Selectivity Using Natural Glycoproteins and Glycotopes
“Biochemistry text books commonly make it appear that it is a foregone conclusion that the hardware of biological information storage and transfer is confined to nucleotides and amino acids, the letters of the...
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Lectins as tools in glycoconjugate research
Lectins are ubiquitous proteins of nonimmune origin, present in plants, microorganisms, animals and humans which specifically bind defined monosugars or oligosaccharide structures. Great progress has been made...
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Glycomic map** of O- and N-linked glycans from major rat sublingual mucin
Carbohydrate moieties of salivary mucins play various roles in life processes, especially as a microbial trap** agent. While structural details of the salivary O-glycans from several mammalian sources are well ...
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Differential affinities of Erythrina cristagalli lectin (ECL) toward monosaccharides and polyvalent mammalian structural units
Previous studies on the carbohydrate specificities of Erythrina cristagalli lectin (ECL) were mainly limited to analyzing the binding of oligo-antennary Galβ1→4GlcNAc (II). In this report, a wider range of recogn...
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Differential Binding to Glycotopes Among the Layers of Three Mammalian Retinal Neurons by Man-Containing N-linked Glycan, Tα (Galβ1–3GalNAcα1-), Tn (GalNAcα1-Ser/Thr) and Iβ/IIβ (Galβ1–3/4GlcNAcβ-) Reactive Lectins
Carbohydrate structures between retinal neurons and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) play an important role in maintaining the integrity of retinal adhesion to underlying RPE, and in retinal detachment pathoge...
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Polyvalent GalNAcα1→Ser/Thr (Tn) and Galβ1→3GalNAcα1→Ser/Thr (T α) as the most potent recognition factors involved in Maclura pomifera agglutinin–glycan interactions
The agglutinin isolated from the seeds of Maclura pomifera (MPA) recognizes a mucin-type disaccharide sequence, Galβ1→3GalNAc (T) on a human erythrocyte membrane. We have utilized the enzyme-linked lectinosorbent...
