TY - CHAP
T1 - A complementary radiopharmaceutical and mathematical model for quantitating hepatic-binding protein receptors
AU - Krohn, Kenneth A.
AU - Vera, David R.
AU - Stadalnik, Robert C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1982 by Taylor and Francis.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Recent research in molecular biology has implicated cell surface glycoproteins, with their highly variable arrangements of sugar moieties, as the identifying markers that allow cells to uniquely distinguish individual chemical structures. The macromolecules which exhibit the property of recognition and binding of specific carbohydrate sequences are referred to as lectins.1 Carbohydrate-mediated recognition reactions allow more combinations of chemically unique receptor sites than are possible with polypeptides. While there are 20 common structural units in the latter case and only nine sugars, glycosidic bonds allow extensive structural branching that is unimportant in peptide bonding. The number of conceivable combinations and permutations of polypeptide structures is thus small compared to that for the highly branched oligosaccharides for which this number approaches 1024.
AB - Recent research in molecular biology has implicated cell surface glycoproteins, with their highly variable arrangements of sugar moieties, as the identifying markers that allow cells to uniquely distinguish individual chemical structures. The macromolecules which exhibit the property of recognition and binding of specific carbohydrate sequences are referred to as lectins.1 Carbohydrate-mediated recognition reactions allow more combinations of chemically unique receptor sites than are possible with polypeptides. While there are 20 common structural units in the latter case and only nine sugars, glycosidic bonds allow extensive structural branching that is unimportant in peptide bonding. The number of conceivable combinations and permutations of polypeptide structures is thus small compared to that for the highly branched oligosaccharides for which this number approaches 1024.
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U2 - 10.1201/9780203710548
DO - 10.1201/9780203710548
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85053341477
SN - 9781138506442
VL - 2
SP - 41
EP - 59
BT - Receptor Binding Radiotracers
PB - CRC Press
ER -