| The vaccine should be a Neisseria meningitidis oligosaccharide or polysaccharide conjugated to a carrier protein. |
| Some modifications involve cleavage of oligosaccharide side chains followed by attachment of different sugar moieties in place of the side chain. |
| As well as the binding functionality provided by the biochemically-specific moieties they contain, the oligosaccharide might impart a steric stiffness to the polypeptide core. |
| The term includes other soluble or insoluble fibrous plant substances, such as hemicelluloses, pectin, lignin and oligosaccharide fibres. |
| This may be explained by the difference in interaction of the tip with the polar zwitterionic PC headgroups and the anionic oligosaccharide headgroups of the ganglioside. |
| In fact, the actual epitope which is recognized is an oligosaccharide which is found on all these antigens. |
