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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 20.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Biol. 2015 Aug 6;22(8):983–993. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2015.07.009

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Structures of metabolic crosslinking sugars that generate nitrenes or carbenes (red) upon UV exposure. These intermediates then react with lectins in vivo to form stable covalent adducts.