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- noun biochemistry A
glycan that is anoligomer composed ofmannose units
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Glycopeptide isoforms consisted of pauci - or oligomannose, with and without fucose on N-acetylglucosamine (s) linked to asparagine residues.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Yoshifumi Hashimoto 2010
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Wellens A, Garofalo C, Nguyen H, Van Gerven N, Slattegard R, et al. (2008) Intervening with urinary tract infections using anti-adhesives based on the crystal structure of the FimH-oligomannose-3 complex.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles I. Martin Sheldon et al. 2010
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The low surface densities of Ley carbohydrates on normal tissues would not be suitable for lateral zinc-mediated interactions to occur between neighboring antibodies, which could explain the evident lack of binding by hu3S193 to normal Le Another immunological solution for specific antibody binding to dense clusters has been reported for the 2G12 IgG, which is highly specific for the complex oligomannose glycans that decorate the "silent face" HIV-1 gp120
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles William Farrugia et al. 2009
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