Revisiting the language of glycoscience: Readers, writers and erasers in carbohydrate biochemistry

Simone Dedola; Michael D. Rugen; Robert J. Young; Robert A. Field

doi:10.1002/cbic.201900377

Revisiting the language of glycoscience: Readers, writers and erasers in carbohydrate biochemistry

Simone Dedola, Michael D. Rugen, Robert J. Young, Robert A. Field

School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology

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Abstract

The roles of carbohydrates in nature are many and varied. However, the lack of template encoding in glycoscience distances carbohydrate structure, and hence function, from gene sequence. This challenging situation is compounded by descriptors of carbohydrate structure and function that have tended to emphasise their complexity. Herein, we suggest that revising the language of glycoscience could make interdisciplinary discourse more accessible to all interested parties.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	423-427
Number of pages	5
Journal	ChemBioChem
Volume	21
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201900377
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2020

Keywords

carbohydrates
epigenetics
glycoscience vocabulary
glycosyl hydrolase
glycosylation
glycosyltransferase

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