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SugarBind provides information on known carbohydrate sequences to which pathogenic organisms (bacteria, toxins and viruses) specifically adhere.

This resource complies with the recommendations of the SNFG nomenclature for the representation of glycans.

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1266Bindings
567Agents
204Ligands
183Publications

A Curated Resource

The data is compiled through literature search by glycobiologists, microbiologists, and medical histologists. SugarBind will soon include synthetic glycan data from various sources.

The latest major update was performed on: February 21, 2018.

Please cite :
Mariethoz J, Khatib K, Alocci D, Campbell MP, Karlsson NG, Packer NH, Mullen EH, Lisacek F : SugarBindDB, a resource of glycan-mediated host-pathogen interactions Nucl. Acids Res. (04 January 2016) 44 (D1): D1243-D1250. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1247

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International Effort

SugarBind was developed at the MITRE Corporation. In 2010, the unmodified content of SugarBind was transcribed from MITRE. Since then, the SugarBind project spreads through collaboration of SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics with Elaine Mullen at the MITRE Corporation. The project is advised by Prof. Nicolle Packer of the Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney in Australia. SugarBind is part of the GlyConnect integrated platform .

Features in preparation :

New lectin cross-references

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