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Complex carbohydrates: 1. Conformational studies on some oligosaccharides related to N-glycosyl proteins which interact with concanavalin A

Biswas, Margaret and Sekharudu, Y Chandra and Rao, VSR (1986) Complex carbohydrates: 1. Conformational studies on some oligosaccharides related to N-glycosyl proteins which interact with concanavalin A. In: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 8 (1). pp. 2-8.

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Abstract

Empirical potential energy calculations have been carried out to determine the preferred conformations of some oligosaccharides having the trimannosidic core structure (Man3GlcNAc2) and which interact with concanavalin A. In the minimum energy conformations for the trimannosidic core the mannose residue on the Man α(1–6) arm comes close to one of the N-acetylglucosamine residues of the core. The addition of N-acetylglucosamine residues to the terminal mannose residues does not alter the preferred conformation of the trimannosidic core although it alters the relative preference of some of the higher energy conformations. The minimum energy conformation broadly agrees with available X-ray data. The presence of a bisecting N-acetylglucosamine residue on the middle mannose does not push the trimannosidic core to any new conformation but it does alter the relative preference for a particular conformation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords: Carbohydrates;conformation;protein-carbohydrate interaction;concanavalin A;trimannosidic core.
Department/Centre: Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited: 31 Aug 2009 04:20
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 05:43
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/22678

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