AmiGO 2: Term Details for "carbohydrate binding" (GO:0030246)

Accession: GO:0030246
Name: carbohydrate binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: sugar binding, selectin
Alternate IDs: GO:0005529
Definition: Binding to a carbohydrate, which includes monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides as well as substances derived from monosaccharides by reduction of the carbonyl group (alditols), by oxidation of one or more hydroxy groups to afford the corresponding aldehydes, ketones, or carboxylic acids, or by replacement of one or more hydroxy group(s) by a hydrogen atom. Cyclitols are generally not regarded as carbohydrates. Source: GOC:mah
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0030246 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: goslim_metagenomics; goslim_flybase_ribbon; goslim_drosophila; goslim_chembl; goslim_plant; goslim_plant_ribbon; goslim_agr; goslim_pir
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to carbohydrate binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to carbohydrate binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for carbohydrate binding (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
carbohydrate binding	is_a	binding (GO:0005488)
carbohydrate binding	RO:0004009	carbohydrate (CHEBI:16646)

subject	relation	object
oligosaccharide binding (GO:0070492)	is_a	carbohydrate binding
galectin complex (GO:1990724)	RO:0002215	carbohydrate binding
monosaccharide binding (GO:0048029)	is_a	carbohydrate binding
calcium-dependent carbohydrate binding (GO:0120153)	is_a	carbohydrate binding
polysaccharide binding (GO:0030247)	is_a	carbohydrate binding

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