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...

Nanocellulose based-material for wound...

Nanocellulose based-material for wound dressing This review article aims at giving insight into...

LectomeXplore and a new lectin classificatin

Lectins are non-covalent glycan-binding proteins mediating cellular interactions but their annotation in newly...

Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus-1...

Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus-1 (PBCV-1) is a large doublestranded DNA (dsDNA) virus that infects the...

Computational tools for drawing, building and displaying carbohydrates : a visual guide

Drawing and visualisation of molecular structures are some of the most common tasks carried out in structural...

Glyco 2030. A Roadmap for Glycoscience in Europe

The document presenting Roadmap for Glycoscience in Europe toward 2030 is available.

Developments in Mannose-Based Treatments for Uropathogenic Escherichia coli-Induced Urinary Tract Infections

Handbook of Polysaccharides

The « HandBook for Polysaccharides » covers the toolbox and catalogue of polysaccharides and related...

Leveraging glycomics data in glycoprotein 3D structure validation

The heterogeneity, mobility and complexity of glycans in glycoproteins have been, and currently remain,...

Supramolecular Assembly and Chirality of Synthetic Carbohydrate Materials

Hierarchical carbohydrate architectures serve multiple roles in Nature. Hardly any correlations between the...