Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Finding a Novel Beta-(1¨3)-D-Glucan/Polynucleotide Complex and its Application to an Immunocyte-Targeting Delivery
Noriko Miyamoto, Shinichi Mochizuki, Seiji Shinkai, and Kazuo Sakurai (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, and others)
Chapter 2. Supramolecular Wrapping by Beta-(1¨3)-D-Glucans toward Polysaccharide-Based Functional Materials
Munenori Numata, Kouta Sugikawa, Shuichi Haraguchi, Tomohiro Shiraki, Shun-ichi Tamaru, Shingo Tamesue, and Seiji Shinkai (Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, and others)
Chapter 3. Beta-Glucan-Induced Macrophage Stimulation and Role of Chitotriosidase as a Biomarker
T. A. Korolenko, T. P. Johnston, A. B. Shintyapina, I. D. Ivanov, E. Korolenko, and E. E. Filjushina (Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia, and others)
Chapter 4. The Cellulomonads as an Alternative Source of the Bacterial Exopolysaccharide Curdlan
William J. Kenyon (Department of Biology, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA)
Index