Revisiting the Language of Glycoscience: Readers, Writers and Erasers in Carbohydrate Biochemistry.

The roles of carbohydrates in nature are many and varied. However, the lack of template encoding in glycoscience distances carbohydrate structure, and hence function, from gene sequence. This challenging situation is compounded by descriptors of carbohydrate structure and function that have tended to emphasise their complexity. Herein, we suggest that revising the language of glycoscience could make interdisciplinary discourse more accessible to all interested parties. © 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Simone Dedola, Michael D Rugen, Robert J Young, Robert A Field. Revisiting the Language of Glycoscience: Readers, Writers and Erasers in Carbohydrate Biochemistry. Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology. 2020 Feb 03;21(3):423-427

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