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SUBMITTER: Hsieh TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422656 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hsieh Tung-Ju TJ Lin Hsien-Ya HY Tu Zhijay Z Huang Bo-Shun BS Wu Shang-Chuen SC Lin Chun-Hung CH
PloS one 20150506 5
Galectins represent β-galactoside-binding proteins and are known to bind Galβ1-3/4GlcNAc disaccharides (abbreviated as LN1 and LN2, respectively). Despite high sequence and structural homology shared by the carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) of all galectin members, how each galectin displays different sugar-binding specificity still remains ambiguous. Herein we provided the first structural evidence of human galectins-1, 3-CRD and 7 in complex with LN1. Galectins-1 and 3 were shown to have h ...[more]