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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

Microbial Lectin-Targeting Mucus: A Glycobioinformatic Approach.

Frédérique Lisacek, Boris Schnider, David Ohayon, Anne Imberty

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Frédérique LisacekSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland. frederique.lisacek@sib.swiss.
Boris SchniderSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland.
David OhayonSection of Biology, UniGe, Geneva, Switzerland.
Anne ImbertyUniversité Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CERMAV, Grenoble, France. anne.imberty@cermav.cnrs.fr.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The motifs exposed on surface glycans of mucins serve as receptors to a range of proteins expressed by microorganisms. The specificity of microbial glycan-binding proteins, i.e., lectins, towards human mucin epitopes is the result of co-evolution. The binding of microbes to mucins is described in several databases hosted on the UniLectin portal. In particular, UniLectin3D provides structural details on the recognition process and LectomeXplore allows for the identification of putative lectins in the genomes of mucin-associated microbiome species. The usage of these resources is illustrated in this chapter.

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LectinsMucinsMucusHumansMicrobiotaPolysaccharidesProtein BindingLectinsMucinsPolysaccharides3D structureAdhesinCarbohydrate recognition domainDatabaseLigand

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PMID40498312

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