Introduction to Glycobiology - Softcover

Taylor, Maureen E.; Drickamer, Kurt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199282781 ISBN 13: 9780199282784

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The structure of sugars attached to cells and proteins have been investigated by biochemists for more than a hundred years. The discipline of glycobiology has emerged more recently, as key principles about the biological functions of these complex sugars have been established and their importance for the study of cell biology and immunology has become apparent.

Introduction of Glycobiology is the first textbook to present an introduction to the essential elements of glycobiology that is readily accessible to undergraduates and other non-specialists. It focuses on coherent stories about what sugars do for cells and organisms. The importance of glycosylation in protein secretion and stability, cell-cell adhesion and signalling, and innate and adaptive immunity are emphasized and the ways in which glycobiology explains human disease are discussed throughout the book in order to place the subject in a biomedical context.

The book is illustrated throughout with all new custom-drawn figures. The simple organization, highlighted terms and annoted key reference lists make the text as readable and accessible as possible.

About this title

About the Author

Maureen Taylor gained her BSc from King's College, University of London and went on to study for her PhD at the University of London. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University, University Research Lecturer at the Glycobiology Institute in the Department of Biochemistry. She is now Research Lecturer in the Division of Molecular Biosciences at Imperial College London and also Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry at Exeter College Oxford.
Kurt Drickamer studied for his BS at Stanford University, and then his PhD at Harvard. He was the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Duke University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory before being appointed Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Chicago, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Columbia University, and Professor of Biochemistry and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the Glycobiology Institute in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. Kurt is now Professor of Biochemistry in the Division of Molecular Biosciences at Imperial College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199282781
• ISBN 13: 9780199282784
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280