BMC Structural Biology

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Statistical analysis of the Bacterial Carbohydrate Structure Data Base (BCSDB): Characteristics and diversity of bacterial carbohydrates in comparison with mammalian glycans

Stephan Herget1*, Philip V Toukach2, René Ranzinger1, William E Hull1, Yuriy A Knirel2 and Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth1

  • * Corresponding author: Stephan Herget s.herget@dkfz.de

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

1 Core Facility: Molecular Structure Analysis (W160), German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

2 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8:35 doi:10.1186/1472-6807-8-35

Published: 11 August 2008

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Supplementary Table 1: Abundance of carbohydrate sequences for various taxonomical classes, orders and families.

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Supplementary Table 2: Abundance of basetypes for bacterial and mammalian carbohydrates.

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Supplementary Table 3: Abundances of monosaccharide residues found in bacterial and mammalian carbohydrates.

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Supplementary Table 4: Abundances of all monosaccharide pairs found in bacterial and mammalian carbohydrates.

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Supplementary Table 5: Comprehensive list of mammalian disaccharide fragments and their relative abundances.

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Supplementary Table 6: Comparison of mammalian and bacterial disaccharide fragments and their relative abundances.

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