Recent advances in biotechnology. Volume 3, Recent progress in glycotherapy / edited by Qun Zhou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhou, Qun, Author.

Contributor:

Zhou, Qun, editor.

Series:

Recent Advances in Biotechnology, 2468-5372 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : Bentham eBookss, 2016.

Summary:

Carbohydrates (monosaccharides oligosaccharides and polysaccharides) exist naturally in free from and as components of other macromolecules (nucleic acids proteins and lipids). Glycotherapy refers to this use of carbohydrates or glycoengineered macromolecules in fighting life-threatening diseases. Although glycotherapy is a relatively new and limited field of pharmacology significant progress has been made in recent years in academia and the pharmaceutical industry facilitated by advances in enzymology and recombinant DNA technologies. Consequently carbohydrate containing biologics are now used in therapeutic regimens. This volume provides a summary of the progress made in developing therapeutic solutions using glycoengineering techniques. Topics covered in this volume include the development of vaccines and antibodies against tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens for cancer treatment the use of glycan for viral inhibition glycoPEGylation hyaluronic acid conjugation and protein modification and conjugation for increasing therapeutic index using recombinant and chemoenzymatic approaches. The volume is essential reading for biochemists pharmacologists and R&D professionals interested in glycotherapy.

Contents:

Recent Progress in Glycotherapy

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9781681083919

1681083914

OCLC:

1480418357