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In a search for possible genetic factors which may influence the immune response to the streptococcal carbohydrates, over 100 rabbits have been immunized with streptococcal vaccines, and representative examples of high and low response pairs mated. The concentration of precipitins to the group-specific carbohydrates has been measured in the antisera following primary intravenous immunization wi...

Carbohydrate-protein interactions play important biological roles in biological processes. But there is a lack of high-throughput methods to elucidate recognition events between carbohydrates and proteins. This paper reported a convenient and efficient method for preparing oligosaccharide microarrays, wherein the underivatized oligosaccharide probes were efficiently immobilized on aminooxyacety...

Carbohydrates have long been recognized as an important aspect of freezing tolerance in plants but the association between these two factors is often ambiguous. To help clarify the relationship, the allocation of carbohydrates between specific tissues within the over wintering organ (crown) of winter cereals was measured. A winter-hardy and non-winter-hardy oat (Avena sativa L.), and a rye (Sec...

We have examined the associations between dietary glycaemic index (GI), substitutions of total, low-, medium- and high-GI carbohydrates for fat and the risk of CHD. The study consisted of 21 955 male smokers, aged 50-69 years, within the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study. The diet was assessed at baseline using a validated FFQ. During a 19-year follow-up, 4379 CHD cases (2...

The binding of carbohydrates to the hemelytic lectin CEL-III isolated from the marine inyertebrate dacumaria echinata was studied. Equilibrium dialysis data s"ggest that CEL-III has two carbohydrate-binding sites with equal aMnity. The binding of specific carbohydrates to CEL-III i"duces a decrease in the fluorescence intensity at 339 nm and the shift of the fluorescence emission maximum to a w...

After a carbohydrate-containing meal, the liver maintains plasma glucose concentration within a narrow range by taking up onequarter to one-third of the absorbed glucose, oxidizing some of it and storing the rest as glycogen or converting it into fat. In the postabsorptive state, the liver provides much needed glucose to the central nervous system and other glucose-utilizing tissues by breaking...

The cell surface displays a complex array of oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids. This diverse mixture of glycans contains a wealth of information, modulating a wide range of processes such as cell migration, proliferation, transcriptional regulation, and differentiation. Glycosylation is one of the most ubiquitous forms of post-translational modification, with more than 50% of the...

Initial sperm-egg binding in mammals involves recognition of glycosylated proteins of egg zonae by glycosylated proteins on sperm surfaces. Egg zona protein structure is relatively simple, and has been strongly conserved. Species specificity must reside in the carbohydrate modifications on the egg surface, and in the co-ordinated assembly of a unique cohort of sperm proteins at capacitation. Fr...