Structural and computational glycobiology: immunity and infection

• Main Author: Mark Agostino (auth)
• Other Authors: Elizabeth Yuriev (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; infection; signaling; molecular modeling; cancer immunotherapy; lectins; molecular recognition; structural biology; glycobiology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Interest in understanding the biological role of carbohydrates has increased significantly over the last 20 years. The use of structural techniques to understand carbohydrate-protein recognition is still a relatively young area, but one that is of emerging importance. The high flexibility of carbohy...