Lectins are proteins with diverse molecular structures that share the ability to recognize and
bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrate structures without changing the …

The recognition of saccharides by proteins has far reaching implications in biology,
technology, and drug design. Within the past two decades, researchers have directed …

Chitin is a fungal microbe-associated molecular pattern recognized in Arabidopsis by a lysin
motif receptor kinase (LYK), AtCERK1. Previous research suggested that AtCERK1 is the …

Pattern recognition receptors confer plant resistance to pathogen infection by recognizing
the conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns. The cell surface receptor chitin …

Fast identification of binding activity directly from mixtures of potential ligands is possible
with the NMR method described, which is based on saturation transfer to molecules in direct …

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has been widely employed to assess diverse features
of glycan–protein molecular recognition events. Different types of qualitative and quantitative …

Two centuries after the discovery of chitin, it is widely accepted that this biopolymer is an
important biomaterial in many aspects. Numerous studies on chitin have focused on its …

Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins which lack enzymatic activity on their ligand and
are distinct from antibodies and free mono-and oligosaccharide sensor/transport proteins …

Growing insights into the many roles of glycoconjugates in biorecognition as ligands for
lectins indicates a need to compare plant and animal lectins. Furthermore, the popularity of …

Molecular recognition lies at the heart of biological processes. At the molecular level the
biological activity of drugs corresponds to the binding of small molecules to macromolecular …