The sugar code : fundamentals of glycosciences /
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| Language: | English |
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Weinheim :
Wiley-VCH,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Biochemical basis and coding capacity of the sugar code
- Three-dimensional aspects of the sugar code
- Chemist's way to synthesize glycosides
- Chemist's way to prepare multivalency
- Analytical aspects : analysis of protein-bound glycans
- Natural glycosylation : glycoproteins
- N-glycosylation
- O-glycosylation : structural diversity and functions
- Glycosylation of model and lower organisms
- Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors : structure, biosynthesis and functions
- Natural glycosylation : glycolipids, proteoglycans and chitin
- Glycolipids
- Proteoglycans
- Chitin
- Protein-carbohydrate interactions
- Protein-carbohydrate interactions : basic concepts and methods for analysis
- How to determine specificity : from lectin profiling to clycan mapping and arrays
- History of lectinology
- Ca²⁺ : mastermind and active player for lectin activity (including a gallery of lectin folds)
- Bacterial and viral lectins
- Plant lectins
- Animal and human lectins
- Routes in lectin evolution : case study on the c-type lectin-like domains
- Carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions
- Biomedical aspects and case studies
- Diseases of glycosylation
- Animal models to delineate glycan functionality
- Glycobiology of fertilization and early embryonic development
- Glycans as functional markers in malignancy?
- Small is beautiful : mini-lectins in host defense
- Inflammation and glycosciences
- Sugars as pharmaceuticals
- Platelet glycoproteins as lectins in hematology
- Neurobiology meets glycosciences.