Glycoscience@Synchrotron: Synchrotron radiation applied to structural glycoscience.

ABSTRACT: Synchrotron radiation is the most versatile way to explore biological materials in different states: monocrystalline, polycrystalline, solution, colloids and multiscale architectures. Steady improvements in instrumentation have made synchrotrons the most flexible intense X-ray source. The wide range of applications of synchrotron radiation is commensurate with the structural diversity and complexity of the molecules and macromolecules that form the collection of substrates investigated by glycoscience. The present review illustrates how synchrotron-based experiments have contributed to our understanding in the field of structural glycobiology. Structural characterization of protein-carbohydrate interactions of the families of most glycan-interacting proteins (including glycosyl transferase

SUBMITTER: Perez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5480326 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature