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Carbohydrate-Protein Interaction

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Adrienne E. Clarke

    1. Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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  2. Ian A. Wilson

    1. Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, USA

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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 139)

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Table of contents (5 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Complex Carbohydrates of Plants and Animals — A Comparison

    • Paul A. Gleeson
    Pages 1-34

  3. Carbohydrate-Binding Sites of Plant Lectins

    • G. N. Reeke Jr., J. W. Becker
    Pages 35-58

  4. Binding Sites of Monoclonal Anti-Carbohydrate Antibodies

    • J. Thurin
    Pages 59-79

  5. Protein-Oligosaccharide Interactions: Lysozyme, Phosphorylase, Amylases

    • L. N. Johnson, J. Cheetham, P. J. McLaughlin, K. R. Acharya, D. Barford, D. C. Phillips
    Pages 81-134

  6. Molecular Features and Basic Understanding of Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions: The Arabinose-Binding Protein-Sugar Complex

    • F. A. Quiocho
    Pages 135-148

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 149-152
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About this book

Carbohydrate as the primary product of photosynthesis has a vital role in the maintenance of life on this planet. Until relatively recently, interest in complex carbohydrates focussed on their structural role in the extracellular matrix/ cell wall of animal, plant, and microbial cells and on their role as energy sources (e.g., starch and glycogen) and struc­ tural components (e.g., cellulose) in natural products. There was, however, indirect evidence that carbohydrates could play an informational role; this evidence was from the find­ ing last century that plant lectins caused specific agglutina­ tion of certain animal cells and, more recently, that the agglutination was mediated by interactions between the plant lectin and cell surface carbohydrates. It is now clear that endogenous carbohydrate binding proteins are important in cell-cell recognition phenomena in animal systems. Recently, impressive evidence has been presented that complex oligosaccharides, derived from cell walls, are also important in plant recognition events, for example in signalling the defence mechanisms of a plant to respond to attack by insects and microbial pathogens.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Adrienne E. Clarke

  • Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, USA

    Ian A. Wilson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Carbohydrate-Protein Interaction

  • Editors: Adrienne E. Clarke, Ian A. Wilson

  • Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46641-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-46643-4Published: 01 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-46641-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0070-217X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 152

  • Topics: Cell Biology, Plant Sciences, Allergology, Immunology, Biochemistry, general

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