Big-Data Glycomics : Tools to Connect Glycan Biosynthesis to Extracellular Communication
Characteristically, cells must sense and respond to environmental cues. Despite the importance of cell–cell...
Anti-Glycan Antibodies : Roles in Human Disease
Endogenous carbohydrate-binding antibodies that recognize bacterial, fungal, and other microbial carbohydrates...
Enhanced validation of small-molecule ligands and carbohydrates in the Protein Data Bank
The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) has provided validation reports based on recommendations from...
Laboratory Observation of, Astrochemical Search for, and Structure of Elusive Erythrulose in the Interstellar Medium
Rotational spectroscopy provides the most powerful means of identifying molecules of biological interest in...
First Neutron 3D Structure of a Protein Interacting with a Fully Deuterated Carbohydrate Ligand
Carbohydrate-binding proteins from pathogenic bacteria and fungi participate in various pathological...
Cracking the « Sugar Code » : A Snapshot of N- and O-Glycosylation Pathways and Functions in Plants Cells.
Glycosylation is a fundamental co-translational and/or post-translational modification process. An attachment...
An Integrated Visualization for Lectin Microarray-based Mouse Tissue Glycome Mapping Data with Lectin Histochemistry
Laser microdissection-assisted lectin microarray provides quantitative and qualitative information on glycans...
Developing Fibrillated Cellulose as a Sustainable Technological Material
Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, found in trees, waste from crops and other biomass. The...
Glycan Utilization Systems in the Human Gut Microbiota : a Gold Mine for Structural Discoveries
The complex glycans comprising ‘dietary fibre’ evade the limited repertoire of human digestive enzymes. They...
Starch in the Bioeconomy
Starch is the most widespread and abundant reserve carbohydrate in plants and is unique in that it can be used...
Towards a Unified Open-Access Dataset of Molecular Interactions
The International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) Consortium provides scientists with a single body of...
Beyond Shielding : The Roles of Glycans in the SARS-CoV‑2 Spike Protein
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)....
DeepMind’s program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins
DeepMind’s program, called AlphaFold, outperformed approximately 100 other teams in a biennial...
The architecture of starch blocklets follows phyllotaxic rules
The starch granule is Nature’s way to store energy in green plants over long periods. Irrespective of their...
A Review of Starch Biosynthesis in Relation to the Building Block-Backbone Model
Starch is a water-insoluble polymer of glucose synthesized as discrete granules inside the stroma of plastids...
