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ReviewThe FEBS journal2019

Mammalian sugar-binding receptors: known functions and unexplored roles.

Maureen E Taylor, Kurt Drickamer

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Review in The FEBS journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 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

45 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Reengineered Anti-CD4 Cys-diabody Variants forMolecular imaging and biology · 2025
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  9. Sugar-sensing swodkoreceptors and swodkocrine signaling.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2025
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  19. Glycoproteome remodeling and organelle-specificProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Maureen E TaylorDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8300-4987
Kurt DrickamerDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5026-5996

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/P005659/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian glycan-binding receptors, sometimes known as lectins, interact with glycans, the oligosaccharide portions of endogenous mammalian glycoproteins and glycolipids as well as sugars on the surfaces of microbes. These receptors guide glycoproteins out of and back into cells, facilitate communication between cells through both adhesion and signaling, and allow the innate immune system to respond quickly to viral, fungal, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens. For many of the roughly 100 glycan-binding receptors that are known in humans, there are good descriptions of what types of glycans they bind and how selectivity for these ligands is achieved at the molecular level. In some cases, there is also comprehensive evidence for the roles that the receptors play at the cellular and organismal levels. In addition to highlighting these well-understood paradigms for glycan-binding receptors, this review will suggest where gaps remain in our understanding of the physiological functions that they can serve.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological TransportCell AdhesionGlycoproteinsHost-Pathogen InteractionsMammalsPolysaccharidesReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearSignal TransductionSugarsGlycoproteinsPolysaccharidesReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearSugarsglycan-binding proteinsglycoprotein turnoverinnate immunityintracellular traffickinglectins

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PMID30657247
PMCPMC6563452

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