Carbohydrates are essential mediators of many processes in health and disease. They
regulate self-/non-self-discrimination, are key elements of cellular communication, cancer …

The apoplast is a continuous plant compartment that connects cells between tissues and
organs and is one of the first sites of interaction between plants and microbes. The plant cell …

Molecular mechanics/Poisson–Boltzmann (Generalized-Born) surface area is one of the
most popular methods to estimate binding free energies. This method has been proven to …

The lectin microarray is a novel platform for glycan analysis, having emerged only in recent
years. Unlike other conventional methods, eg, liquid chromatography and mass …

Long since, carbohydrates were thought to be used just as an energy source and structural
material. However, in recent years, with the emergence of the field of glycobiology and …

Lectins are non-immunoglobulin proteins that bind diverse sugar structures with a high
degree of selectivity. Lectins play crucial role in various biological processes such as …

Ralstonia solanacearum is a relevant and widespread phytopathogenic bacterium that
causes a wilt disease with deadly effects on many economically important crops and …

In many plant and animal bacterial pathogens, the Type III secretion system (TTSS) that
directly translocates effector proteins into the eukaryotic host cells is essential for the …

The large diversity and complexity of glycan structures together with their crucial role in
many biological or pathological processes require the development of new high-throughput …

The theory of the binding polynomial constitutes a very powerful formalism by which many
experimental biological systems involving ligand binding can be analyzed under a unified …