Imperial College London
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ProfessorKurtDrickamer

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences

Chair in Biochemistry
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5282k.drickamer

 
 
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606Sir Ernst Chain BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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BibTex format

@article{Drickamer:2014:10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.003,
author = {Drickamer, K and Taylor, ME},
doi = {10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.003},
journal = {Current Opinion in Structural Biology},
pages = {14--22},
title = {Convergent and divergent mechanisms of sugar recognition across kingdoms},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.003},
volume = {28},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Protein modules that bind specific oligosaccharides are found across all kingdoms of life from single-celled organisms to man. Different, overlapping and evolving designations for sugar-binding domains in proteins can sometimes obscure common features that often reflect convergent solutions to the problem of distinguishing sugars with closely similar structures and binding them with sufficient affinity to achieve biologically meaningful results. Structural and functional analysis has revealed striking parallels between protein domains with widely different structures and evolutionary histories that employ common solutions to the sugar recognition problem. Recent studies also demonstrate that domains descended from common ancestors through divergent evolution appear more widely across the kingdoms of life than had previously been recognized.
AU  - Drickamer,K
AU  - Taylor,ME
DO  - 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.003
EP  - 22
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 0959-440X
SP  - 14
TI  - Convergent and divergent mechanisms of sugar recognition across kingdoms
T2  - Current Opinion in Structural Biology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.003
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/24791
VL  - 28
ER  -
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