New Way to Modify Sugar Molecules is Found

A strategy for modifying complex sugar molecules developed by University of Oklahoma scientists reportedly might improve some scientific studies.

Such sugars play an important role in cell communication, serve as docking pads for bacteria or viruses, or provide clinically useful markers for cancer detection.

From this, the rapidly growing field of glycomics has emerged, exploring which proteins are modified with which sugars, and the implications of such modifications.

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