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SUBMITTER: Yu QD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2680971 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Quan D QD Oldring Asa P AP Powlesland Alex S AS Tso Cynthia K W CK Yang Chunxuan C Drickamer Kurt K Taylor Maureen E ME
Journal of molecular biology 20090226 5
Multivalent binding of glycans on pathogens and on mammalian cells by the receptors DC-SIGN (CD209) and DC-SIGNR (L-SIGN, CD299) is dependent on correct disposition of the C-type carbohydrate-recognition domains projected at the C-terminal ends of necks at the cell surface. In the work reported here, neck domains of DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR expressed in isolation are shown to form tetramers in the absence of the CRDs. Stability analysis indicates that interactions between the neck domains account fu ...[more]