The Importance of Ch /
Interactions to the Function of Carbohydrate Binding Proteins
Author: Muraki M.
Source: Protein and Peptide Letters, Volume 9, Number 3, June 2002 , pp. 195-209(15)
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Abstract:
It is suggested that the interactions between the hydrophobic C-H groups of carbohydrate residues and the p-electron systems of aromatic amino-acid residues play an important role in the ligand-recognition function of carbohydrate-binding proteins. This review focuses on our recent structural and functional studies of human lysozyme and hevein-domain type lectins (wheat-germ agglutinin and Ac-AMP2) aimed at understanding how CH /
interactions are involved in the actual binding events.
Keywords: interaction; carbohydrate binding protein; cbp interaction
Language: English
Document Type: Review article
DOI: 10.2174/0929866023408751

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