Bioorganic Chemistry: Carbohydrates

Bioorganic chemistry has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, enriching the disciplines of biology and chemistry and providing important insights into the workings of biological systems at a molecular level. Recently, this growing field has witnessed some very exciting results in applying design and synthesis techniques to many problems in biochemistry and molecular biology. Bridging the gap between chemistry and biology, Topic in Bioorganic and Biological Chemistry: A Series of Books in Support of Teaching and Research will serve the needs of the many graduate students and researchers who work in and study this discipline.
The inaugural work in this series, Bioorganic Chemistry, is composed of three volumes: Nucleic Acids, Peptides and proteins, and Carbohydrates. This third volume, Bioorganic Chemistry: Carbohydrates, Provides a broad overview of the topic. It covers the chemical and enzymatic synthesis of simple and complex carbohydrates and modern methods for the analysis of carbohydrate structure, an reviews the ways in which carbohydrates mediate binding to cells and subcellular targets such as DNA, proteins, and antibody binding sites. It also provides an overview of cyclodextrins and their properties and the biosynthesis of carbohydrates. The text is comprised of 13 chapters making it ideal for use in a one semester graduate level special topics course in carbohydrates.

Subjects of the book :

Chemistry

Contents of the book :

Introduction to Carbohydrates
Glycosylidene Carbenes
Chemical Synthesis of Oligosaccharides
Chemical Synthesis of Complex Carbohydrates
DNA- Binding Glycoconjugates
Enzymatic Synthesis of Carbohydrates
Carbohydrate Structure, Conformation, and Reactivity: NMR Studies with Stable Isotopes
Cell Adhesion Molecules and their Cellular Targets
Models of Cell Surface Carbohydrates and Biological Adhesion
Recognition of Carbohydrate Antigens by Antibody Binding Sites
Atomic Interactions Between Proteins/ Enzymes and Carbohydrates
Cyclodextrins
Biosynthesis of Bacterial and Mammalian Glycogen and Plant Starch synthesis and Their Regulation
References
Index