Handbook of Carbohydrate Engineering provides an overview of the basic science, theory, methods, and applications of this broad, interdisciplinary field.

Features:

• Presents a broad overview of the principles, processes, and applications of carbohydrate engineering
• Incorporates results from biologists, chemists, and chemical engineers in research and development as well as applied areas
• Offers foundation-to-application format that is accessible to all levels of scientists and researchers
• Provides practical information on current and future research methodologies for characterization and synthesis
• Includes cutting edge topics such as antibody engineering, crop nutrient modification, and computer modeling and systems biology analysis of carbohydrates

Contents

• Mammalian Glycosylation: An Overview of Carbohydrate Biosynthesis
• Patterning of Lectins of Vero and MDCK Cells and Influenza Viruses: The Search for Additional Virus/Cell Interactions
• O-Acetyl Sialic Acids in Parasitic Diseases
• Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
• Role of Milk Carbohydrates in Preventing Bacterial Adhesion
• Structural Characterization of Glycosaminoglycans
• Carrageenans: Structural and Conformational Studies
• Computational Modeling in Glycosylation
• Biosynthetic Pathways for Differential Expression of Functional Chondroitin Sulfate and Heparan Sulfate
• Large-Scale Production of Oligosaccharides Using Engineered Bacteria
• Fructan Biosynthesis in Genetically-Modified Plants
• Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Glycosylation Mutants for Glycan Engineering
• Biochemical Engineering of Sialic Acids
• Glycosylation in Native and Engineered Insect Cells
• N-Glycan Engineering in Yeasts and Fungi: Progress Toward Human-Like Glycosylation
• Bacterial Capsules: A Route for Polysaccharide Engineering
• Chemo-Biological Approach to Modification of the Bacterial Cell Wall
• Engineering Bacterial Biopolymers for the Biosorption of Heavy Metals
• Treatment of Wastewaters with the Biopolymer Chitosan
• The Role of Glycosylation in Engineered Antibodies
• Recent Developments in the Synthesis of Oligosaccharides by Hyperthermophilic Glycosidases
• Modification of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides Using Enzymes from Aspergillus
• ß-Glucosidases from Filamentous Fungi: Properties, Structure, and Applications
• Sialic Acids and Sialylmimetics: Useful Chemical Probes of Sialic Acid-Recognizing Proteins
• Engineering Carbohydrate Scaffolds into the Side Chains of Amino Acids and Use in Combinatorial Synthesis
• Effects of Short- and Long-Chain Fructans on Large Intestinal Physiology and Development of Pre-Neoplastic Lesions in Rats
• Alginate as Drug a Delivery Carrier
• Chitosan-Based Nonviral Vectors for Gene Delivery
• Polysaccharides in Tissue Engineering Applications

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