Publisher's Synopsis
"Glycobiology is now one of the more rapidly growing fields in the natural sciences, with broad relevance to many areas of basic research, biomedicine, and biotechnology, including the chemistry of carbohydrates, the enzymology of glycan formation and degradation, the recognition of glycans by specific proteins, roles of glycans in complex biological systems, and their analysis or manipulation by various techniques. This fourth edition textbook seeks to provide a basic overview, directed toward the advanced undergraduate or the beginning graduate-level student of molecular and cellular biology and biomedicine"--.
