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Covers cutting-edge results from diverse research fields such as cell biology, immunology, and cancer biology
Clarifies the roles of glycans in various cellular processes and diseases
Suggests future directions for further understanding of the functions of glycans
Is recommended for researchers who are not expert in glycoscience
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the latest breakthrough results in glycobiology regarding the roles of glycans in relation to quality control and transport of protein, the immune system, viral infection, stem cells, the neural system, and various diseases such as cancer, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, muscular dystrophy, and schizophrenia. Although glycoscience has long been regarded as a very specialized field with no simple analytical method, the recent explosive progress in research continues to provide limitless evidence that glycan chains are the key component in various biological phenomena. Cell surface glycans, for example, change with developmental stages or environmental conditions and thus represent a “face” of the cell that is utilized for identification of iPS and ES cells and as biomarkers in diagnosis or detection of cancer. This book comprises 17 chapters, each of which poses outstanding “glyco-related” questions enabling non-specialists to have a clearer idea about what the future direction for further investigation of glycans in their own research fields will be. Also including basic information to understand the nature of glycans, this title serves as an excellent “textbook” for researchers in diverse research fields who are not familiar with, but nevertheless interested in, glycan chains or sugar chains.
Editors and Affiliations
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Glycometabolome Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN-Max-Planck Joint Research Center for Systems Chemical Biology, RIKEN Global Research Cluster, Wako, Japan
Tadashi Suzuki
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Department of Analytical Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Kazuaki Ohtsubo
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Disease Glycomics Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN-Max-Planck Joint Research Center for Systems Chemical Biology, RIKEN Global Research Cluster, Wako, Japan
Naoyuki Taniguchi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sugar Chains
Book Subtitle: Decoding the Functions of Glycans
Editors: Tadashi Suzuki, Kazuaki Ohtsubo, Naoyuki Taniguchi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55381-6
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55380-9Published: 09 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56378-5Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55381-6Published: 02 February 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Cancer Research, Immunology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharma