Bound Carbohydrates in Nature

Klappentext Summary of Professor Waren's pivotal research on the special properties of bound carbohydrates in nature. Zusammenfassung This 1994 book is based on a series of six lectures given at the Accademia dei Lincei. The contents focus on the special properties of bound carbohydrates in nature. It will prove an instructive and entertaining first hand account for researchers and graduate students. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction, history, microheterogeneity of bound carbohydrates; function of bound carbohydrates; inducible changes in bound carbohydrates; programmed changes in bound carbohydrates; a possible role for bound carbohydrates; 2. Sialic acids; distribution of sialic acids in nature; the metabolism of hexamines and sialic acids; metabolic control of hexosamines and sialic acids; asparagine N-glycosylation; processing of lysomal enzymes; biosynthesis of O-linked oligosaccarides; modification of sialic acids; sialidases; genetic metabolic disorders involving sialic acids, glycosidases, bound carbohydrates in malignancy; 3. Multidrug resistance, properties of P-glycoprotein; lysomes and multidrug resistance; kinetics of influx and efflux of drugs, modulation of multidrug resistance; the role of lipids in the accumulation of drugs by MDR cells; P-170 and membrane lipids; Overview.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Leonard, Leonard Warren, Leonard (The Wistar Institute of Anatomy a Warren, Warren Leonard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.1994
• EAN: 9780521447430
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44743-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Lezioni Lincee; Lezioni Lincee
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, biochemistry, CARBOHYDRATES, Chemical biology