title: Glycoproteins: what are the sugar chains for?
abstract: For many glycoproteins, the carbohydrate groups confer important physical properties such as conformational stability, protease resistance, charge and water-binding capacity. Equally important, however, are the roles of carbohydrate groups in biological recognition, where sequence diversity provides signals for protein targeting and cell-cell interactions.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Paulson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D009844:Oligosaccharides