Glycobiology Advance Access originally published online on July 7, 2004
Glycobiology 2004 14(10):25G; doi:10.1093/glycob/cwh124
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Glycobiology vol. 14 no. 10 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved.
Letter to the Glyco-Forum
-2,3-Sialyllactitol is a donor substrate for Trypanosoma cruzi trans-sialidase
Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21 944970, Cidade Universitaria, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, E-mail: previato@biof.ufrj.br
Received on June 15, 2004; accepted on June 30, 2004
Key words: sialic acid / sialyllactitol / trans-sialidase
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I read with interest the recent paper by Augustí et al. in the July 2004 issue of Glycobiology titled "Lactose derivatives are inhibitors of Trypanosoma cruzi trans-sialidase activity toward conventional substrates in vitro and in