Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Chemical and Chemoenzymatic Manipulation of Chondroitin Sulfate Polysaccharides
(Emiliano Bedini and Michelangelo Parrilli, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Complesso Universitario Monte S.Angelo, Naples, Italy)
Chapter 2 – Novel Glycosaminoglycan Glycotechnology: Efficient Synthesis and Elongation Procedure of Chondroitin Sulfate Oligosaccharides
(Masanori Yamaguchi and Masahiko Endo, Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan, and others)
Chapter 3 – Manufacturing Chondroitin Sulfate: From Animal Source Extraction to Biotechnological Production
(Odile Francesca Restaino, Mario De Rosa, Donatella Cimini and Chiara Schiraldi, Dept. of Experimental Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy)
Chapter 4 – Understanding Specificities in Enzymatic Digestions of Chondroitin Sulfates A and C by Monitoring Sulfation Patterns of the Produced Oligosaccharides
(Vitor H. Pomin, Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, and University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Chapter 5 – Chondroitin-6-sulfate Degradation by N Acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfatase and Implications for Mucopolysaccharidosis IV A (MPS IV A)
(Yadilette Rivera-Colón and Scott C. Garman, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA)
Chapter 6 – Pharmacoproteomics of Chondroitin Sulfate in Osteoarthritis Therapy
(Valentina Calamia, Cristina Ruiz-Romero, Eulalia Montell, Josep Vergés and Francisco J. Blanco, Rheumatology Division, Proteomics Group-ProteoRed/ISCIII, INIBIC-CHU A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, and others)
Chapter 7 – Chondroitin Sulfate Regulates Growth Factor Signaling in Tissue Homeostasis and Disease
(Dragana Nikitovic, Kallirroi Voudouri, Nikos Karamanos and George Tzanakakis, Department of Histology–Embryology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, and others)
Chapter 8 – Fucosylated Chondroitin Sulfate: A Serpin-independent Anticoagulant Polysaccharide
(Vitor H. Pomin, Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, and University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Chapter 9 – Chondroitin Sulfate in Treatment of Tissue Degeneration
(Michele Marcolongo and Katsiaryna Prudnikova, Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Chapter 10 – Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan Abnormalities in Schizophrenia
(Harry Pantazopoulos and Sabina Berretta, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, and others)
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Chapter 11 – Structural Analysis of Chondroitin Sulfates and their Derivatives by 15N-NMR Spectroscopy
(Vitor H. Pomin, Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, and University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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