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GLYCOCONJUGATE JOURNAL
Volume 31, Issue 6-7, Pages 409-416Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10719-014-9543-9
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Antithrombin; Heparin; Oligosaccharides; NMR; Protein-ligand interaction
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Heparin-antithrombin interaction is one of the most documented examples of heparin/protein complexes. The specific heparin sequence responsible for the binding corresponds to a pentasaccharide sequence with an internal 3-O-sulfated glucosamine residue. Moreover, the position of the pentasaccharide along the chain as well as the structure of the neighbor units affects the affinity to antithrombin. The development of separation and purification techniques, in conjunction with physico-chemical approaches (mostly NMR), allowed to characterize several structural variants of antithrombin-binding oligosaccharides, both in the free state and in complex with antithrombin. The article provides an overview of the studies that lead to the elucidation of the mechanism of interaction as well as acquiring new knowledge in heparin biosynthesis.
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