Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 1 – Heparan Sulfate and Heparin: Structure and Function
(Marcelo A Lima, Renan P Cavalheiro, Maria CZ Meneghetti, Leonardo TDB Nobre, Gustavo M Viana, Edwin A Yates and Helena B Nader, Departamento de Bioquímica, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 2 – Chondroitin and Keratan Sulfate
(Shunji Tomatsu, Tsutomu Shimada, Pravin Patel, Robert W. Mason, Tadahisa Mikami, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Tomoya Akama, Adriana M. Montano, and Tadao Orii, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA, and others)
Chapter 3 – Characterization and Chemical Modification of Glycosaminoglycans of the Extracellular Matrix
(Schiller J, Becher J, Möller S, Lemmnitzer K, Riemer T, Schnabelrauch M, University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Haertelstrasse, Leipzig, Germany, and others)
Chapter 4 – Unusual Heparin-Like Compounds from Marine Invertebrates
(Suely Ferreira Chavante, Adriana da Silva Brito, Rômulo dos Santos Cavalcante and Giulianna Paiva Viana de Andrade, Laboratório de Glicoconjugados Bioativos (GLICOBIO), Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal/RN, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 5 – Heparan/Heparin Polysaccharide Synthesis: Visiting the Chemoenzymatic Synthesis
(Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Rocha, Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Polímeros Naturais (BIOPOL), Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal/RN, Brazil)
Chapter 6 – Sulfated Polysaccharides from Green Seaweed
(Anabela Alves, Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal)
Chapter 7 – Fucoidans and Fucans
(Pilar Rupérez, Metabolism and Nutrition Department. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos y Nutrición (ICTAN). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). José Antonio Novais 10, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain)
Chapter 8 – Carrageenans
(Cinthia Beatrice Silva Telles, Moacir Fernandes Queiroz, Jailma Almeida-Lima and Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Rocha, Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Polímeros Naturais (BIOPOL), Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal/RN, Brazil)
Chapter 9 – Agarans: Sulfated Precursors and Derivatives from Agarose, and Related Sulfated Galactans
(Marina Ciancia and María Cristina Matulewicz, Cátedra de Química de Biomoléculas, Departamento de Biología Aplicada y Alimentos, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 10 – Sulfated Polysaccharides from Unusual Natural Sources
(Marília Medeiros Fernandes de Negreiros, Jailma Almeida-Lima and Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Rocha, Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Polímeros Naturais (BIOPOL), Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal/RN, Brazil)
Chapter 11 – Methods of Characterization of Sulfated Oligo-Polysaccharides
(Annamaria Naggi and Giangiacomo Torri, Istituto di Ricerche Chimiche e Biochimiche “G. Ronzoni”, Milan, Italy, Milano, Italy)
Chapter 12 – Sulfated Polysaccharides and Nanotechnology
(Vera Carvalho, Francisco Miguel Gama, Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal)
About the Editors
Index
Additional Information
Broad audience: from biologist to chemists. The book covers topics for both undergraduate and graduate students.
