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Title
Marine Glycomics
Subject
Marine Drugs
Description
Marine creatures are rich sources of glycoconjugate-containing glycans and have
diversified structures. The advance of genomics has provided a valuable clue for their
production and developments. This information will encourage breeding and
engineering functional polysaccharides with slime ingredients in algae. These glycans will
have the potential for applications to antioxidant, anticancer, and antimicrobial drugs in
addition to health supplements and cosmetics. The combination of both biochemical
and transcriptome approaches of marine creatures will lead to the opportunity to
discover new activities of proteins such as glycan-relating enzymes and lectins. These
proteins will also be used for experimental and medical purposes, such as diagnostics
and trial studies.
The topic of marine glycomics is also focusing on understanding the physiological
properties of marine creatures, such as body defense against pathogens and cancers. In
the competitions for natural selection, living creatures have evolved both their glycans
and their recognition. They have primitive systems of immunity, and few of their
mechanisms are closely related to glycans. If we are able to describe the accumulation of
data of glycans of creatures living in the seashore and the oceans, we may be able to
anticipate a time when we can talk about the ecosystem with glycans. That knowledge
will be useful for the development of drugs that cure our diseases and for an
understanding of living systems in addition to the preservation of living environments.
Creator
Yuki Fujii (Ed)
Marco Gerdol (Ed)
Yasuhiro Ozeki (Ed)
Source
mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6423
Publisher
MDPI AG St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland Tel: +41 61 683 77 34 www.mdpi.com/books books@mdpi.com
Date
November 2022
Contributor
J®F
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND
Format
Pdf
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Identifier
ISBN 978-3-0365-5821-9 (Hbk)
ISBN 978-3-0365-5822-6 (PDF)