Skin, the largest organ in the body, protects against toxins and microorganisms in the
environment and serves to prevent dehydration of all non-aquatic animals. Immune …

Hyaluronan synthases (HASs) are glycosyltransferases that catalyze polymerization of
hyaluronan found in vertebrates and certain microbes. HASs transfer two distinct …

Hyaluronic acid, or HA, is a rigid and linear biopolymer belonging to the class of the
glycosaminoglycans, and composed of repeating units of the monosaccharides glucuronic …

In the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in hyaluronan, an often
misunderstood, biochemically simple, yet functionally complex carbohydrate polymer that is …

The unique biological and rheological properties make hyaluronic acid a sought-after
material for medicine and cosmetology. Due to very high purity requirements for hyaluronic …

Abstract Hyaluronan (HA), the essential [-3-GlcNAc-1-β-4-GlcA-1-β-] n matrix polysaccharide
in vertebrates and molecular camouflage coating in select pathogens, is polymerized by “HA …

This review is the third update of the original review, published in 1999, on the application of
matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry to the analysis of …

Aims: To determine the effects of the ratios of hyaluronan synthase expression level to
precursor sugar UDP‐GlcA biosynthesis ability on the molecular weight (MW) of hyaluronic …

Publisher Summary Modern analytical methods, including nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS), are widely used for the determination of chondroitin …

Hyaluronan (HA), a functionally essential glycosaminoglycan in vertebrate tissues and a
putative virulence factor in certain pathogenic bacteria, is an extended linear polymer …