Abstract
Carbohydrates have been revealed to play fundamental roles in diverse biological phenomena, such as being recognition sites and biomarkers. Recently, ample nucleic acid aptamers guided for carbohydrate recognition have already been isolated and characterized through SELEX methodology. This review would like to present and discuss these aptamers toward recognizing various carbohydrate targets: monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, aminoglycoside antibiotics and glycans from glycoproteins. High affinity carbohydrate aptamers that we survey herein might shed light on the development of a tool to augment drug discovery creations.
Keywords: Carbohydrate recognition, Aptamers, Monosaccharides, Oligosaccharides, Polysaccharides, Aminoglycoside antibiotics, Glycoproteins
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Title: Aptamer-Based Carbohydrate Recognition
Volume: 16 Issue: 20
Author(s): Wei Sun, Lupei Du and Minyong Li
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Keywords: Carbohydrate recognition, Aptamers, Monosaccharides, Oligosaccharides, Polysaccharides, Aminoglycoside antibiotics, Glycoproteins
Abstract: Carbohydrates have been revealed to play fundamental roles in diverse biological phenomena, such as being recognition sites and biomarkers. Recently, ample nucleic acid aptamers guided for carbohydrate recognition have already been isolated and characterized through SELEX methodology. This review would like to present and discuss these aptamers toward recognizing various carbohydrate targets: monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, aminoglycoside antibiotics and glycans from glycoproteins. High affinity carbohydrate aptamers that we survey herein might shed light on the development of a tool to augment drug discovery creations.
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Sun Wei, Du Lupei and Li Minyong, Aptamer-Based Carbohydrate Recognition, Current Pharmaceutical Design 2010; 16(20) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138161210791792877
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138161210791792877 |
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Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1873-4286 |

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