Carbohydrate – Carbohydrate Interactions - The Sugar Code

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therapeutic compounds. The study and evaluation of carbohydrate- carbohydrate

interactions go hand in hand with the development of novel and more sensitive

experimental approaches to better understand the nature and biological roles of

these low - affi nity interactions that govern essential cellular processes.

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Carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions provide a highly versatile mechanism

based on the low affi nity and polyvalent confi guration of carbohydrate chains.

Carbohydrates offer many combinatorial possibilities for fi nely tuned cellular

adhesion and recognition processes, as well as for interactions between drugs

or natural ligands with DNA. Precision and sensitivity of novel experimental

approaches allow more thorough investigation of these interactions at the

single - molecule level.

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