N-Acetylgalactosamine Clusters in Drug Delivery
By BiosynthThe interactions of carbohydrates with their receptors is one of the core principles that has allowed for the great diversity of cell-cell and cell-ligand recognition.
A striking feature of many of these binding events is multivalency, which refers to a dense cover made of multiple oligosaccharides on a cell (the glycocalyx) that interacts with a series of carbohydrate-binding sites on an individual protein and/or several proteins.
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