The Sweet Science of Glycobiology

By Ram Sasisekharan, James Myette

Complex carbohydrates, molecules that are particularly important for communication among cells, are coming under systematic study

Biology Chemistry

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September-October 2003

Volume 91, Number 5
Page 432

DOI: 10.1511/2003.32.432

Carbohydrates are indispensable to life on Earth. In their simplest form, they serve as a primary energy source for sustaining life. For the most part, however, carbohydrates exist not as simple sugars but as complex molecular conjugates, or glycans.

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