Approximately 100 international specialists in chemistry, microbiology, botany, and pharmacology offer analysis and supporting graphics, equations, and photographs on multiple aspects of newer methods of animal and plant glycoconjugate analysis: e.g. mass spectronomy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, O -glycosylation characterizations, and chromophore and flurophore labeling of oligosaccharides. These selections from the Third International Symposium on Current Methods (San Diego, CA) convey the fundamentally critical role of such complex carbohydrates to basic biological functions: conferring unique properties on animal proteins and lipids, and serving as nutritional and structural supports in plants. As noted in the preface, no way yet has been found to clone these substances to produce viable quantities for research purposes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
This work covers methodologies for plant and animal glycoconjugate analysis. It details mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, glycolipids and new physical methods, o-glycosylation characterization, chromophore and fluorophore labelling of oligosaccharides, separations, exoglycosidases and mapping, and plant glycobiology.
