Chemical glycobiology.

Glycopeptides as versatile tools for glycobiology.

This review describes the recent advances in the field of glycopeptide and small glycoprotein synthesis. The strategies covered include chemical and chemoenzymatic synthesis, native chemical ligation (NCL), and expressed chemical ligation. The importance of glycopeptide synthesis is exemplified by giving the reader an overview of how versatile and important these well-defined glycopeptides are ...

Assigned Reading: Chapter 55, Chemical Tools for Inhibiting Glycosylation Essentials in Glycobiology, 3rd edition Chapter 57, Glycans in Biotechnology and the Pharmaceutical Industry Essentials in Glycobiology, 3rd edition Chapter 55, Chemical Tools for Inhibiting Glycosylation Essentials in Glycobiology, 3rd edition

Glycobiology of Reproductive Processes in Marine Animals: The State of the Art

Glycobiology is the study of complex carbohydrates in biological systems and represents a developing field of science that has made huge advances in the last half century. In fact, it combines all branches of biomedical research, revealing the vast and diverse forms of carbohydrate structures that exist in nature. Advances in structure determination have enabled scientists to study the function...

Applications of azide-based bioorthogonal click chemistry in glycobiology.

Click chemistry is a powerful chemical reaction with excellent bioorthogonality features: biocompatible, rapid and highly specific in biological environments. For glycobiology, bioorthogonal click chemistry has created a new method for glycan non-invasive imaging in living systems, selective metabolic engineering, and offered an elite chemical handle for biological manipulation and glycomics st...

Nod factor structures, responses, and perception during initiation of nodule development.

The onset of nodule development, the result of rhizobia-legume symbioses, is determined by the exchange of chemical compounds between microsymbiont and leguminous host plant. Lipo-chitooligosaccharidic nodulation (Nod) factors, secreted by rhizobia, belong to these signal molecules. Nod factors consist of an acylated chitin oligomeric backbone with various substitutions at the (non)reducing-ter...