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Engineering sweet targets for magic bullets

Nature Biotechnology volume 22, pages 1244–1245 (2004)Cite this article

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The cellular biosynthetic machinery can be harnessed to incorporate traceable markers into cell-surface glycans in vivo.

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Figure 1: Representation of the incorporation of a tagged unnatural sialic acid onto the glycan of a cell membrane glycoprotein.

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