Oligosaccharides of Chitin and Chitosan Bio-manufacture and Applicat
The book provides an overview of bio-manufacturing techniques for the production, purification, characterization and modification of chito/chitin oligosaccharides and their monomers. In addition, it explores potential applications in the food, biomedical
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Oligosaccharides of Chitin and Chitosan Bio-manufacture and Applications
Oligosaccharides of Chitin and Chitosan
Liming Zhao Editor
Oligosaccharides of Chitin and Chitosan Bio-manufacture and Applications
Editor Liming Zhao State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai, China
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Preface
Saccharides, also known as carbohydrates, are a group of important active molecules which have great structural and functional significance for human life. However, the research of saccharides had lagged far behind that of nucleic acids and proteins for a long time. The biological functions of bioactive oligosaccharide and polysaccharide were not identified until the 1980s, as well as the profound impact of saccharides on daily life. Since then, people started to realize that carbohydrates were as fundamental as proteins and nucleic acids for life and the basis, development, and application of saccharides had become a hot spot of international scientific research. At present, the researches on saccharides have received unprecedented attentions from scientists not only in the fields of basic molecular biology, biochemistry, or synthetic biology but also in applied medicine, pharmacy, and food science. In 1988, Raymond Dwek published a review entitled “Glycobiology,” marking the birth of this frontier field “Glycoengineering.” Now, glycoengineering has become another important scientific field in life sciences
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