Bioorganic Chemistry: Carbohydrates

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-508469-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Topics in Biochemistry

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, Topics 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, and 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. Each chapter begins with an introduction that includes basic principles, a summary of key findings which support current research in the field, and an overview of current research activity. The remainder of each chapter deals in greater detail with a number of recent studies that illustrate the nature of ongoing activity in the field. All chapters have been written by leading researchers, and numerous references are given.

As was the case for the first two volumes, Biorganic Chemisty: Carbohydrates consists of a set of chapters, the number of which is roughly equal to the number of weeks in a semester. The subject matter of each chapter is believed to reflect a set of issues and activities that are a focus of current research by bioorganic chemists in the field of carbohydrates, The first part of each chapter contains an overview of basic principles placed in the context of the area on which that chapter is focused. This is followed by a number of specific examples of current studies, which are presented in greater details. This organization is intended to parallel the typical order of presentation in special topics courses for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hecht, Sidney M.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Kohlenhydrate