Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a crucial constituent of the outer membrane of most Gram-
negative bacteria, playing a fundamental role in the protection of bacteria from …

Pectin is a heteropolysaccharide abundant in the cell wall of plants and is obtained mainly
from fruit (citrus and apple), thus its properties are particularly prone to changes occurring …

Abstract The Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans (SNFG) is a community-curated standard for
the depiction of monosaccharides and complex glycans using various colored-coded …

Glycoscience assembles all the scientific disciplines involved in studying various molecules
and macromolecules containing carbohydrates and complex glycans. Such an ensemble …

Structural determination of carbohydrates is mostly performed by liquid-state NMR, and it is
a demanding task because the NMR signals of these biomolecules explore a rather narrow …

Plant polysaccharides represent a natural source material characterized by high ubiquity,
abundance and biological activities that can be utilised as organic matter in numerous …

Carbohydrates possess a variety of distinct features with stereochemistry playing a
particularly important role in distinguishing their structure and function. Monosaccharide …

O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a post-translational modification (ie, O-
GlcNAcylation) on the serine/threonine residues of proteins. As a unique intracellular …

Abstract The 2018 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 181 papers spanning
molecular biology. Among them, 82 are new and 84 are updates describing resources that …

After centuries of pestilence and decades of global vaccination, measles virus (MeV)
genotypes capable of evading vaccine-induced immunity have not emerged. Here, by …