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    The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates-3

    Albert M. Wu in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (2011)

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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...

    Pierre Rougé, Willy J. Peumans… in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carboh… (2011)

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    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)...

    Nechama Gilboa-Garber… in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carboh… (2011)

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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...

    Albert M. Wu, Jia-Haw Liu, Tanuja Singh… in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carboh… (2011)

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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 ...

    Albert M. Wu in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates-3 (2011)

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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...

    Albert M. Wu, Tanuja Singh, Jia-Hau Liu… in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carboh… (2011)

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    The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates —2

    Albert M. Wu in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (2001)

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    Lectin and Anti-Carbohydrate Antibody Assays Using Chemically Modified Ligands

    Microtiter plate assays and ‘lectinoblotting’ with the use of biotinylated lectins are tive and easy to perform methods that can be combined with simple procedures of mical modifications of glycoproteins immob...

    Maria Duk, Albert M. Wu, Elwira Lisowska in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carboh… (2001)

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    Expression of Binding Properties of Gal/GalNAc Reactive Lectins by Mammalian Glycotopes

    Expression of the binding properties of Gal/GalNAc specific lectins, based on the affinity of decreasing order of mammalian glycotopes (determinants) rather than saccharide inhibition pattern, is probably one ...

    Albert M. Wu in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates —2 (2001)

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    A Guide to the Carbohydrate Specificities of Applied Lectins-2

    The lectins, that can be used as tools to study glycobiological systems are defined as applied lectins (1–14).They are easily obtained, stable and have their own binding specificity extending beyond the monosacch...

    Albert M. Wu, Shuh-chyung Song… in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carboh… (2001)

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    Binding Properties and Applications of Aplysia Gonad Lectin

    Adult Aplysia gonad contains high levels of a galactophilic lectin (MW around 65 kDa; composed of 2 subunits of apparent single species). It binds galactose and various a/ß-galactosides (but not N-acetylgalactosa...

    Nechama Gilboa-Garber, Albert M. Wu in The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates —2 (2001)

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    Structure, biosynthesis, and function of salivary mucins

    The glandular secretions of the oral cavity lining the underlying buccal mucosa are highly specialized fluids which provide lubrication, prevent mechanical damage, protect efficiently against viral and bacteri...

    Albert M. Wu, Gyorgy Csako, Anthony Herp in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (1994)

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    Differential binding characteristics and applications of dGalβ1→3dGalNAc specific lectins

    The binding properties of Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Bauhinia vurpurea alba (BPL), Maclura pomifera (MPL) and Sophora japonica (SJL) lectins were studied by quantitative precipitin and precipitin inhibition assays, ...

    Albert M. Wu in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (1984)

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    Current concepts of the structure and nature of mammalian salivary mucous glycoproteins

    The visco-elastic properties of salivary secretions are due to high molecular-weight glyco-proteins, known as mucins. Mucins are composed of numerous oligosaccharide side-chains O-glycosidically linked through 2-...

    Anthony Herp, Albert M. Wu, John Moschera in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (1979)