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Sialobiology: Structure, Biosynthesis and Function Sialic Acid Glycoconjugates in Health and Disease
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Editors: Joe Tiralongo, Ivan Martinez-Duncker

Sialobiology: Structure, Biosynthesis and Function Sialic Acid Glycoconjugates in Health and Disease

eBook: US $89 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $250
Printed Copy: US $206
Library License: US $356
ISBN: 978-1-60805-067-3 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-386-5 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2013
DOI: 10.2174/97816080538651130101
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Introduction

This eBook presents a summary of central aspects of sialobiology (i.e., the study of sialic acid and its relevance to biology). The importance of substitution by the sugar sialic acid and the role played by sialylated structures (eg. glycoproteins, glycolipids, glycoconjugates) in immune recognition, neural cell growth, embryogenesis and disease development including microbial pathogenesis and cancer progression, has become well-established.

Since 1995, the field of sialobiology has expanded greatly as many of the key enzymes involved in sialic acid biosynthesis, as well as the vast majority of sialic acid binding lectins involved in immune recognition, have only been cloned, characterised and structural eluciated after the publication of earlier works on the subject. This e-book also covers these recent developments. Chapters in this e-book have been contributed by eminent sialobiologists. Therefore, a book of this nature is timely and will prove to be a definitive volume with a high impact in this field for glycobiologists and cell biologists.

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eBook: US $89 Special Offer: US $250 Printed Copy: US $206 Library License: US $356

Contributors

Editor(s):
Joe Tiralongo
Griffith University
Australia


Ivan Martinez-Duncker
Morelos State Autonomous University
Mexico



Contributor(s):
Ruben Almaraz
Translational Tissue Engineering Center Department of Biomedical Engineering
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building 5029
Baltimore
MD, 21231
USA


Hiromune Ando
Department of Applied Bioorganic Chemistry
Gifu Universty
1-1 Yanagido
Gifu-shi, Gifu 501-1193
Japan
/
Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS)
Kyoto Universtiy



Anne Bergfeld
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla
CA, 92093
USA


Christopher J. Day
Institute for Glycomics
Griffith University
Gold Coast campus
Queensland, 4222
Australia


Jian Du
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Translational Tissue Engineering Center
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building 5029
Baltimore
MD, 21231
USA


Sebastian P. Galuska
Institute of Biochemistry
Faculty of Medicine
University of Giessen, Friedrichstrasse 24
Giessen, D-35392
Germany


Anne Harduin-Lepers
Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle
Université Lille Nord de France
Lille, CNRS UMR 8576, IFR 147
Villeneuve d’Ascq, 59655
France


Stephan Hinderlich
Department of Life Sciences & Technology
Laboratory of Biochemistry Beuth
University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Seestrasse 64
Berlin, 13347
Germany


Ulrike Hubl
Industrial Research Limited
Gracefield Research Centre
Lower Hutt, 5040
New Zealand


Sadagopan Magesh
Department of Applied Bioorganic Chemistry
Gifu Universty
1-1 Yanagido
Gifu-shi, Gifu 501-1193
Japan
/
Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS)
Kyoto Universtiy



Andrea Maggioni
Griffith University
Institute for Glycomics
Gold Coast campus
Queensland, 4222
Australia


Ivan Martínez-Duncker
Human Glycobiology Laboratory
Faculty of Sciences
UAEM
Cuernavaca
Mexico


Martina Mühlenhoff
Institut für Zelluläre Chemie
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1
Hannover, 30625
Germany


Anja K. Münster-Kühnel
Institut für Zelluläre Chemie
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1
Hannover, 30625
Germany


Eduard Nekrasov
Industrial Research Limited
Gracefield Research Centre
Lower Hutt, 5040
New Zealand


Chihiro Sato
Bioscience and Biotechnology Center
Nagoya University Chikusa
Nagoya, 464-8601
Japan


Alexandre Stephens
Institute for Glycomics
Griffith University
Gold Coast campus
Queensland, 4222
Australia


Tadashi Suzuki
Glycometabolome Team
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
Wako
Japan
/
CREST (Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology)
JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency)



Elaine Tan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Translational Tissue Engineering Center
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building 5029
Baltimore
MD, 21231
USA


Joe Tiralongo
Institute for Glycomics
Griffith University
Gold Coast campus
Queensland, 4222
Australia


Kazunori Yamaguchi
Division of Biochemistry
Miyagi Cancer Center Research Institute
Natori
Japan


Kevin J Yarema
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Translational Tissue Engineering Center
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building 5029
Baltimore
MD, 21231
USA