Synthetic Oligosaccharides. Indispensable Probes for the Life Sciences

Content: Synthetic oligosaccharides in glycobiology : an overview / Y.C. Lee --
Drugs based on carbohydrates : past and future / M. Petitou --
Sugar cyanoethylidene derivatives : useful tools for the chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides and regular polysaccharides / L.V. Backinowsky --
Applications of stannyl ethers and stannylene acetals to oligosaccharide synthesis / T. Bruce Grindley --
Flexibility of biomolecules : implications for oligosaccharides / Laura Lerner --
Synthetic oligosaccharides as probes for investigating the binding of heparin to antithrombin III / M. Petitou --
Synthesis and antigenic properties of sialic acid based dendrimers / R. Roy ... [et al.] --
Synthetic acceptors for [alpha]-L-fucosyltransferases / Khushi L. Matta ... [et al.] --
Oligosaccharide-polyacrylamide conjugates of immunological interest : synthesis and applications / A. Ya. Chernyak --
Synthetic saccharides can delineate the binding of polysaccharide to monoclonal antibodies / Cornelis P.J. Glaudemans ... [et al.] --
Synthesis of sialo-oligosaccharides and their ceramide derivatives as tools for elucidation of biologic functions of gangliosides / Akira Hasegawa --
Photolabile, spacer-modified oligosaccharides for regioselective chemical modification and probing of receptor binding sites / Jochen Lehmann, Stefan Petry, and Markus Schmidt-Schuchardt --
Ganglioside lactams as analogs of ganglioside lactones / Goran Magnusson ... [et al.] --
Stereocontrolled approaches to O-glycopeptide synthesis / Yoshiaki Nakahara, Hiroyuki Iijima, and Tomoya Ogawa --
Synthetic probe for study of molecules related to selectin family / N.E. Nifantʹev ... [et al.] --
Chemical synthesis of sialylated glycoconjugates / Richard R. Schmidt.