“…In the special case of weakly bound ligands, with a high rate of exchange between the bound and the free states, transferred nuclear Overhauser effects (TRNOEs) 1 can be observed, giving information about the conformation of the carbohydrate in the binding site (Clore and Gronenborn, 1982;Ni, 1994). This method allowed the determination of the conformational changes undergone by oligosaccharides upon binding to ricin (Bevilacqua et al, 1990(Bevilacqua et al, , 1992, to antibodies (Glaudemans et al, 1990, Bundle et al, 1994, Arepalli et al, 1995, and to a human lectin (Cooke et al, 1994). Molecular modeling is a complementary tool for both x-ray and NMR methods.…”