title: Selectins and other mammalian sialic acid-binding lectins.
abstract: Several recently discovered mammalian cell adhesion proteins recognize and bind to sialic acid-containing ligands. Reports concerning the molecular specificities of these interactions have been intriguing but somewhat confusing, partly because of pitfalls in methodology or interpretation. Nevertheless, these protein-carbohydrate recognition phenomena are important in the normal biology of blood cells and in the pathophysiology of many diseases.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
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authors.lastname: Varki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D037102:Lectins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D019007:P-Selectin; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D063265:Sialic Acid Binding Immunoglobulin-like Lectins; D012794:Sialic Acids / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D037102:Lectins; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D019007:P-Selectin; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins; D063265:Sialic Acid Binding Immunoglobulin-like Lectins; D012794:Sialic Acids