From Chitin to Chitosan

Two hundred years after its identification in mushrooms, and later in insects, chitin, and its derivative...

The challenges of glycan recognition with natural and artificial receptors

Glycans – simple or complex carbohydrates – play key roles as recognition determinants and modulators of...

Glycans in Drug Discovery

Glycosience is benefitting from the global progress in biophysical techniques. Those developments are...

An Atlas of Human Glycosylation Pathways Enables Display of the Human Glycome by Gene Engineered Cells

Revisiting the Language of Glycoscience

A Specific, Glycomimetic Langerin Ligand for Human Langerhans Cell Targeting

Hydroxyl Groups in Synthetic and Natural-Product-Derived Therapeutics :

By forming extended hydrogen-bond networks, the contribution of hydroxyl groups to affinity can reach several...

Reprogramming the Enzymatic Assembly Line for Site-specific Fucosylation

Fucosylated carbohydrate determinants are common components of cell surface glycoconjugates and secreted...

Dynamics of Membrane-Embedded Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharides for the Three Domains of Life

Lipid-linked oligosaccharides (LLOs) are the substrates of oligosaccharyltransferases (OSTs), enzymes that...

Advances in Chitin/Chitosan Characterization and Applications

This Special Issue features an updated series of open access articles addressing some of the major and...

The Ligands for Human IgG and Their Effector Functions

Activation of the humoral immune system is initiated when antibodies recognize an antigen and trigger effector...

Automated Glycan Assembly of Lewis type I and II Oligosaccharide Antigens

To investigate the biological roles of Lewis type glycans a host of synthetic approaches has been developed....

Oligosaccharides Self-Assemble and Show Intrinsic Optical Properties

Natural polysaccharides such as cellulose, chitin, starch assemble to form key structural architectures over...

The Irreversible Transport of Lipopolysaccharides.

In Gram-negative bacteria, lipopolysaccharides (LPS) LPSs are synthesized in the inner membrane, before being...

Alba Silipo : Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity in Carbohydrate Chemistry