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Kurt Drickamer is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Immunology, Physiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in Drickamer's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Galectins and Cancer Biology, Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research, Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research, and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms.

Drickamer's frequent coauthors have included Maureen E. Taylor, Sabine A.F. Jégouzo, Abigail Clements, Stefi Benjamin, and H. Feinberg.

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Glycobiology, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Drickamer include:

  • Structural analysis of carbohydrate binding by the macrophage mannose receptor CD206 (2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Discovery and Classification of Glycan-Binding Proteins (2022, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe))
  • Mammalian lectin arrays for screening host-microbe interactions (2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • A human lectin array for characterizing host-pathogen interactions (2024, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Preformed mincle dimers stabilized by an interchain disulfide bond in the neck region (2024, Glycobiology)

Best Publications

  • Two distinct classes of carbohydrate-recognition domains in animal lectins.

    K Drickamer

  • Galectins: a family of animal beta-galactoside-binding lectins.

    Samuel H. Barondes;Vincent Castronovo;Douglas N W Cooper;Richard D. Cummings

  • STRUCTURAL BASIS OF LECTIN-CARBOHYDRATE RECOGNITION

    William I. Weis;Kurt Drickamer

  • The C‐type lectin superfamily in the immune system

    William I. Weis;Maureen E. Taylor;Kurt Drickamer

  • Structure of a C-type mannose-binding protein complexed with an oligosaccharide.

    William I. Weis;Kurt Drickamer;Wayne A. Hendrickson;Wayne A. Hendrickson

  • BIOLOGY OF ANIMAL LECTINS

    Kurt Drickamer;Maureen E. Taylor

  • Structural basis for selective recognition of oligosaccharides by DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR.

    Hadar Feinberg;Daniel A. Mitchell;Kurt Drickamer;William I. Weis

  • C-type lectin-like domains.

    Kurt Drickamer

  • Structure of the calcium-dependent lectin domain from a rat mannose-binding protein determined by MAD phasing.

    William I. Weis;Richard Kahn;Roger Fourme;Kurt Drickamer

  • A Novel Mechanism of Carbohydrate Recognition by the C-type Lectins DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR: SUBUNIT ORGANIZATION AND BINDING TO MULTIVALENT LIGANDS

    Daniel A. Mitchell;Andrew J. Fadden;Kurt Drickamer

  • Structural basis for distinct ligand-binding and targeting properties of the receptors DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR

    Yuan Guo;Hadar Feinberg;Edward Conroy;Daniel A Mitchell

  • Engineering galactose-binding activity into a C-type mannose-binding protein

    Kurt Drickamer

  • Introduction to glycobiology

    Maureen Taylor;Kurt Drickamer

  • Lectin-like proteins in model organisms: implications for evolution of carbohydrate-binding activity

    Roger B. Dodd;Kurt Drickamer

  • Primary structure of the mannose receptor contains multiple motifs resembling carbohydrate-recognition domains.

    M E Taylor;J T Conary;M R Lennartz;P D Stahl

  • Trimeric structure of a C-type mannose-binding protein

    William I Weis;Kurt Drickamer

  • Contribution to ligand binding by multiple carbohydrate-recognition domains in the macrophage mannose receptor.

    M E Taylor;K Bezouska;K Drickamer

  • The major lung surfactant protein, SP 28-36, is a calcium-dependent, carbohydrate-binding protein.

    H P Haagsman;S Hawgood;T Sargeant;D Buckley

  • A Consensus Definitive Classification of Scavenger Receptors and Their Roles in Health and Disease

    Mercy R. PrabhuDas;Cynthia L. Baldwin;Paul L. Bollyky;Dawn M.E. Bowdish

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of the Vertebrate Galectin Family

    Denis Houzelstein;Isabelle R. Gonçalves;Andrew J. Fadden;Sukhvinder S. Sidhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen E. Taylor
Maureen E. Taylor Imperial College London
William I. Weis
William I. Weis Stanford University
Anne Dell
Anne Dell Imperial College London
Joachim Herz
Joachim Herz The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Stuart M. Haslam
Stuart M. Haslam Imperial College London
David F. Smith
David F. Smith Emory University
Russell Wallis
Russell Wallis University of Leicester
Samuel C. Silverstein
Samuel C. Silverstein Columbia University
Stefan Pöhlmann
Stefan Pöhlmann German Primate Center

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