Glycobiology: The Sheer Versatility Of Sugars - Glycobiology Is A Hot New Topic, A Science That Has Arrived And Blossomed In The Last Decade

The latest issue of The Biochemist puts glycobiology in perspective with an authoritative article on its origin by Professor Raymond Dwek and with reports from the cutting edge of this fascinating and vitally important new discipline. Read how it is making significant discoveries in the fields of molecular biology and in the fight against disease.


Also: the discovery of muscle biochemistry, how the structure of immunoglobin was found and what John Prescott is really like.


All this and much more in the latest issue of The Biochemist


Glycobiology at Oxford

By Raymond Dwek

How the study of oligosaccharides became glycobiology and became firmly established as part of mainstream biochemistry.


Recognizing glycans

By Kurt Drickamer and Maureen E. Taylor

Many well-understood examples of glycan-receptor interactions exist, but are there enough receptors to account for the number of glycans that are being identified?


Protein-carbohydrate interactions

By Nathan Sharon

Proteins that possess the ability to bind carbohydrates specifically and reversibly abound in nature, being present in all living organisms, from viruses to humans.


Glycobiology and medicine

By Pauline M. Rudd and Raymond A. Dwek

The bright future for high throughput glycan analysis and disease markers.


Glycobiology and viruses

By Nicole Zitzmann, Joanne M. O'Leary and Raymond Dwek

Most aspects of glycobiology play important roles in the 'life' of viruses, for example in the correct folding of their envelope glycoproteins as well as in immune representation and escape.


Raman optical activity

By Laurence D. Barron

A new light on proteins, carbohydrates and glycoproteins.


Q & A:

Interview with S. V. Perry


Flexing their muscles

By Michael P. Walsh

The Biochemical Journal classic papers of S. V. Perry and co-workers.


In the blood

By Michael A. Kerr

Rodney Porter and the structure of immunoglobulin.


The trap hypothesis

By Guy S. Salvesen

The classic Biochemical Journal paper of Alan Barrett and Phyllis Starkey.


48 Q & A:

Q. Is John Prescott a nice guy to work with?

A. Yes; the image of John given by the press and the media is very unfair.


Our exclusive interview with Phyllis Starkey, MP


Obituary

Helen Muir 1920-2005

By Tim Hardingham


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