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The Third Dimension of Reading the Sugar Code by Lectins: Design of Glycoclusters with Cyclic Scaffolds as Tools with the Aim to Define Correlations between Spatial Presentation and Activity

Overview of attention for article published in Molecules, April 2013
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Title
The Third Dimension of Reading the Sugar Code by Lectins: Design of Glycoclusters with Cyclic Scaffolds as Tools with the Aim to Define Correlations between Spatial Presentation and Activity
Published in
Molecules, April 2013
DOI 10.3390/molecules18044026
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Paul V. Murphy, Sabine André, Hans-Joachim Gabius

Abstract

Coding of biological information is not confined to nucleic acids and proteins. Endowed with the highest level of structural versatility among biomolecules, the glycan chains of cellular glycoconjugates are well-suited to generate molecular messages/signals in a minimum of space. The sequence and shape of oligosaccharides as well as spatial aspects of multivalent presentation are assumed to underlie the natural specificity/selectivity that cellular glycans have for endogenous lectins. In order to eventually unravel structure-activity profiles cyclic scaffolds have been used as platforms to produce glycoclusters and afford valuable tools. Using adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins and the pan-galectin ligand lactose as a model, emerging insights into the potential of cyclodextrins, cyclic peptides, calixarenes and glycophanes for this purpose are presented herein. The systematic testing of lectin panels with spatially defined ligand presentations can be considered as a biomimetic means to help clarify the mechanisms, which lead to the exquisite accuracy at which endogenous lectins select their physiological counterreceptors from the complexity of the cellular glycome.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Russia 1 2%
China 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Unknown 50 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 28%
Student > Master 11 21%
Researcher 9 17%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 3 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 18 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 19%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 4 8%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 October 2019.
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#6,389,976
of 22,703,044 outputs
Outputs from Molecules
#3,217
of 19,407 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#54,455
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Outputs of similar age from Molecules
#22
of 89 outputs
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