Carbohydrate Research in Argentina
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 459
Special Issue Editors
Interests: glycobiology in Chagas disease; synthesis of oligosaccharides
Interests: carbohydrate synthesis; glycobiology; galactofuranosidase; αGal
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Argentina owes its long tradition in Carbohydrate chemistry and Biochemistry to two great scientists, Venancio Deulofeu and Luis Federico Leloir, who were pioneers in these fields and led the way for generations to come.
Venancio Deulofeu (1902-1984) started with his studies on degradation by ammonia of acylated aldononitriles and acylated aldoses, earned a Doctors’ degree in Organic Chemistry in 1930 with a Thesis on “Degradation in the Group of the Monoses”, and became the leading researcher for many students who followed the work on carbohydrate reactions.
Luis Federico Leloir (1906-1987) broke new ground in glycobiology studies and was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1970 for the discovery of sugar nucleotides and their importance in the metabolism of carbohydrates.
In this special issue we present contributions from groups which are firmly rooted in their investigations. Original research and up to date reviews are concerned with oligosaccharide synthesis, structure of natural polysaccharides, synthetic polymers derived from carbohydrates, receptors for sugars in cells, folding of glycoproteins, aberrant glycosylation as cause of disease, folding of glycoproteins, mass spectrometry of glycans, glycobiology of Trypanosoma cruzi and the immune system and labeling of carbohydrates with fluorophores.
Prof. Dr. Rosa M de Lederkremer
Prof. Dr. María Carla Marino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oligosaccharide synthesis
- glycobiology of Trypanosoma cruzi
- galactofuranose
- glycosidation and diseases
- algal polysaccharides
- synthetic and biodegradable polymers from renewable resources
- mass spectrometry of glycans
- α-gal and immunity
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