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Faculdade de Letras, Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, spe(49), p. 109-124, 2013

DOI: 10.1590/s1984-82502013000700009

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Glycodendritic structures: Tools to interact with DC-SIGN

Journal article published in 2012 by Jose J. Reina ORCID, Javier Rojo
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The key role of carbohydrates in many biological events has attracted the interest of the scientific community. This fact has demanded the access to new tools necessary to understand this role and the interaction of carbohydrates with their corresponding receptors, lectins. Glycodendrimers and glycodendritic structures in general, have demonstrated to be very efficient and interesting tools to intervene in those processes where carbohydrates participate. In this review, we discuss the different glycodendritic structures that have been used to interfere with DC-SIGN, a very attractive lectin involved in infection processes and in the regulation of the immune response.