Carbohydrates on cell surfaces are information molecules. Although only seven or eight
monosaccharides are commonly used as building blocks in mammalian systems, the …

Fucose-containing oligosaccharides play a central role in physio-pathological events, and
fucosylated oligosaccharides have interesting potential applications in biomedicine. No …

The important roles that carbohydrates play in biological processes and their potential
application in diagnosis, therapeutics, and vaccine development have made them attractive …

Many glycoconjugates of eukaryotic cells, glycolipids, and glycoproteins have specific and
important biological functions'. In order to fulfil these functions, the assembly of the …

Synthetic oligosaccharides are objects of interest as model compounds in studies on the
biological activity of natural compounds, but also as components for new drugs …

抄録 この総説では糖転移酵素によるオリゴ糖類似体の合成について概観する. 特に,
化学修飾された糖ヌクレオチド供与体, あるいは化学修飾された糖受容体を基質として用いたものに …

Oligosaccharides, either as such or as part of glycolipids, glycopeptides, or glycoproteins,
are ubiquitous in nature and fulfill important roles in the living cell. Also in medicine and to …

The importance of carbohydrates in a variety of biological functions is the reason that
interest has recently increased in these compounds as possible components of therapeutic …

Because of their pivotal biological functions, attention to sugars and glycobiology has grown
rapidly in recent decades, leading to increased demand for homogeneous oligosaccharides …

Oligosaccharides on the cell surface that play important roles in the biochemical recognition
processes are potential pharmaceuticals. However it has been very difficult to synthesize …