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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Multivalent Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions: How Synthetic Chemistry Enables Insights into Nanometric Recognition.

René Roy, Paul V Murphy, Hans-Joachim Gabius

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Synthetic Ligands of Myeloid C-Type Lectin Receptors.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  3. Selectively Modified Lactose andInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  5. Ginseng polysaccharides: Potential antitumor agents.Journal of ginseng research · 2023
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  10. Synthesis of Galectin Inhibitors by Regioselective 3'-Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  15. Exploring functional pairing between surface glycoconjugates and human galectins using programmable glycodendrimersomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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  20. An introduction to the sugar code.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

René RoyPharmaqam and Nanoqam, Department of Chemistry, University du Québec à Montréal, P. O. Box 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada. roy.rene@uqam.ca.
Paul V MurphySchool of Chemistry, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland. paul.v.murphy@nuigalway.ie.
Hans-Joachim GabiusInstitute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, München 80539, Germany. gabius@tiph.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycan recognition by sugar receptors (lectins) is intimately involved in many aspects of cell physiology. However, the factors explaining the exquisite selectivity of their functional pairing are not yet fully understood. Studies toward this aim will also help appraise the potential for lectin-directed drug design. With the network of adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins as therapeutic targets, the strategy to recruit synthetic chemistry to systematically elucidate structure-activity relationships is outlined, from monovalent compounds to glyco-clusters and glycodendrimers to biomimetic surfaces. The versatility of the synthetic procedures enables to take examining structural and spatial parameters, alone and in combination, to its limits, for example with the aim to produce inhibitors for distinct galectin(s) that exhibit minimal reactivity to other members of this group. Shaping spatial architectures similar to glycoconjugate aggregates, microdomains or vesicles provides attractive tools to disclose the often still hidden significance of nanometric aspects of the different modes of lectin design (sequence divergence at the lectin site, differences of spatial type of lectin-site presentation). Of note, testing the effectors alone or in combination simulating (patho)physiological conditions, is sure to bring about new insights into the cooperation between lectins and the regulation of their activity.

Indexed as

CarbohydratesDendrimersGalectinsGlycoproteinsHumansModels, MolecularPolysaccharidesStructure-Activity RelationshipCarbohydratesDendrimersGalectinsGlycoproteinsPolysaccharidesagglutiningalectinglycoclusterglycodendrimerglycophaneglycoproteinliposomesoligosaccharidessugar code

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PMID27187342
PMCPMC6274006

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