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ArticleNucleic acids research2016

SugarBindDB, a resource of glycan-mediated host-pathogen interactions.

Julien Mariethoz, Khaled Khatib, Davide Alocci, Matthew P Campbell, Niclas G Karlsson, Nicolle H Packer, Elaine H Mullen, Frederique Lisacek

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Microbial Lectin-Targeting Mucus: A Glycobioinformatic Approach.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  6. UniCarb-DB: An MS/MS Experimental Glycomic Fragmentation Database.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  15. Dealing with the Ambiguity of Glycan Substructure Search.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  20. Three-Dimensional Structures of Carbohydrates and Where to Find Them.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Julien MariethozProteome Informatics Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland.
Khaled KhatibGlycoinformatics Inc., Great Falls, VA, USA.
Davide AlocciProteome Informatics Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Matthew P CampbellBiomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
Niclas G KarlssonUniversity of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Nicolle H PackerBiomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
Elaine H MullenThe MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA.
Frederique LisacekProteome Informatics Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland frederique.lisacek@isb-sib.ch.
Macquarie University · AUSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHMitre (United States) · USUniversity of Geneva · CHUniversity of Gothenburg · SEUniversity of Providence · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The SugarBind Database (SugarBindDB) covers knowledge of glycan binding of human pathogen lectins and adhesins. It is a curated database; each glycan-protein binding pair is associated with at least one published reference. The core data element of SugarBindDB is a set of three inseparable components: the pathogenic agent, a lectin/adhesin and a glycan ligand. Each entity (agent, lectin or ligand) is described by a range of properties that are summarized in an entity-dedicated page. Several search, navigation and visualisation tools are implemented to investigate the functional role of glycans in pathogen binding. The database is cross-linked to protein and glycan-relaled resources such as UniProtKB and UniCarbKB. It is tightly bound to the latter via a substructure search tool that maps each ligand to full structures where it occurs. Thus, a glycan-lectin binding pair of SugarBindDB can lead to the identification of a glycan-mediated protein-protein interaction, that is, a lectin-glycoprotein interaction, via substructure search and the knowledge of site-specific glycosylation stored in UniCarbKB. SugarBindDB is accessible at: http://sugarbind.expasy.org.

Indexed as

Databases, ChemicalHost-Pathogen InteractionsBacterial ProteinsLectinsLigandsPolysaccharidesProtein BindingViral ProteinsBacterial ProteinsLectinsLigandsPolysaccharidesViral Proteins

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PMID26578555
PMCPMC4702881
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