'Clickable lectins': bioorthogonal reactive handles facilitate the directed conjugation of lectins in a modular fashion.

ABSTRACT: Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins with specificity for their target ligands. They play diverse roles in cellular recognition and signalling processes, as well as in infections and cancer metastasis. Owing to their specificity, lectins find application in biotechnology and medicine, e.g. for blood group typing, purification of glycoproteins or lipids and as markers that target cancer cells. For some applications, lectins are immobilized on a solid support, or they are conjugated with other molecules. Classical protein conjugation reactions at nucleophilic amino acids such as cysteine or lysine are often non-selective, and the site of conjugation is difficult to pre-define. Random conjugation, however, can interfere with protein function. Therefore, we sought to equip lectins with a

SUBMITTER: Tobola F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6388015 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature