Figure 1.

(A) Structure of laminarin as determined by NMR. Glucose residues that are distinguishable by NMR spectroscopy are labeled with small letters a to h and the mannitol is abbreviated with M. β1‐3 and β1‐6 glycosidic bonds are indicated as β3 and β6, respectively. (B) Schematic model depicting OVA (PDB: 1OVA) with 6 covalently linked chains of laminarin. The six lysine residues that have a fractional accessible surface area >0.5 at least in one of the four structures in the asymmetric unit of the crystal structure are shown in red, the other lysines in blue. A potential cross‐linking of two OVA molecules is shown