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Combinatorial Chemistry toward Understanding the Function(s) of Carbohydrates and Carbohydrate Conjugates
Author(s) -
Barkley Angela,
Arya Prabhat
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3765(20010202)7:3<555::aid-chem555>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - carbohydrate chemistry , carbohydrate , chemistry , function (biology) , conjugate , combinatorial chemistry , biochemistry , computational biology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Combinatorial chemistry has contributed significantly to understanding the structure–function relationships of biologically important molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. However, carbohydrates and carbohydrate conjugates, which have been identified as key modulators of several biological functions have not enjoyed the same measure of success. The complexity and synthetic challenges of carbohydrate conjugates have resulted in a number of conceptual approaches to rapidly access sufficient quantities of these biomolecules. This article summarizes these combinatorial approaches and also highlights fully automated library synthesis of artificial glycopeptides with the goals of understanding their biological roles.