Scientists from ZIOC RAS summarized data concerning carbohydrates three-dimensional structure

More and more information about biomolecules is being accumulated, and it is often difficult to navigate in this ocean of data for chemists and biologists. This is particularly true in the field of carbohydrates science: it is difficult for specialists in this area to use their colleagues’ results. This is also applicable to the three-dimensional structure of saccharides and their derivatives. At the same time, research in the field of a three-dimensional structure brings understanding of the immune response mechanisms and other carbohydrate-dependent cellular processes to the molecular level.

In the context of systematic work on the glycomics informatization, scientists from the laboratory № 21 of ZIOC collected and systematized sources of information on the three-dimensional structure of saccharides, methods of its display, modeling, verification and processing. The results are published as a large review, the main contribution to the writing of which was made by undergraduate student of Higher Chemical College Sofia Scherbinina.

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S.S. Scherbinina, Ph.V. Toukach Three-Dimensional Structures of Carbohydrates and Where to Find Them Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2020, 21, 7702. DOI: 10.3390/ijms21207702