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Structural determinants of concanavalin A specificity for oligosaccharides.

J U Baenziger, +1 more
- 10 Apr 1979 - 
- Vol. 254, Iss: 7, pp 2400-2407
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Iodinated glycopeptides (50 to 200 x lo3 cpm/pmol) have been utilized to examine the structural determinants affecting interaction with the saccharide binding site of concanavalin A by Scatchard plot analyses of saturation curves.
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This article is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.The article was published on 1979-04-10 and is currently open access. It has received 447 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acetylglucosamine & Mannose.

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Carbohydrate-binding modules: fine-tuning polysaccharide recognition

TL;DR: The present review summarizes the impact structural biology has had on the understanding of the mechanisms by which CBMs bind to their target ligands.
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Specificity of Twelve Lectins Towards Oligosaccharides and Glycopeptides Related to N‐Glycosylproteins

TL;DR: The results obtained show that lectins considered 'identical' in terms of monosaccharide specificity, possess the ability to recognize fine differences in more complex structures, and different lectins are able to recognize different saccharidic sequences on the same glycan structure.
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The carbohydrate-binding specificity of pea and lentil lectins. Fucose is an important determinant.

TL;DR: Glycopeptide binding to lentil lectin-Sepharose was enhanced by the exposure of terminal N-acetylglucosamine residues on the glycopeptides, whereas binding to pea lectin -Sepharoses was enhancedBy the exposure to terminal mannose residues, and the differences in carbohydrate binding specificity were exploited to fractionate a mixture of [2-3H]mannose-labeled glycoproteins derived from mouse lymphoma cell gly
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Legume lectin structure.

TL;DR: The quaternary structures of these proteins form the basis of a higher level of specificity, where the spacing between individual epitopes of multivalent carbohydrates becomes important, and is of relevance for their effects on the biological activities of cells such as mitogenic responses.
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