Potent fluoro-oligosaccharide probes of adhesion in ToxoplasmosisAllman, S. A., Jensen, H. H., Vijayakrishnan, B., Garnett, J. A., Leon, E., Liu, Y., Anthony, D. C., Sibson, N. R., Feizi, T., Matthews, S. and Davis, B. G. (2009) Potent fluoro-oligosaccharide probes of adhesion in Toxoplasmosis. ChemBioChem, 10 (15). pp. 2522-2529. ISSN 1439-7633 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900425 Abstract/SummaryUnnatural, NMR‐ and MRI‐active fluorinated sugar probes, designed and synthesised to bind to the pathogenic protein TgMIC1 from Toxoplasma gondii, were found to display binding potency equal to and above that of the natural ligand. Dissection of the binding mechanism and modes, including the first X‐ray crystal structures of a fluoro‐oligosaccharide bound to a lectin, demonstrate that it is possible to create effective fluorinated probe ligands for the study of, and perhaps intervention in, sugar–protein binding events.
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