Carbohydrates and Glycosylation

General

• Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic - Biochemistry within the framework of chemical principles and logic. (Henry Jakubowski, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University)
  • Glycoproteins: Biosynthesis and Function
  • Monosaccharides and Disaccharides
  • Polysaccharides
• Glycoforum - Well-organized site with information on and links to resources in glycosciences, including proteoglycans, glycoproteins and glycolipids.
• Kimball's Biology Pages: Carbohydrates - Basic information on carbohydrates. (Beginner's Level)
• The Medical Biochemistry Page - An excellent biochemistry tutorial with information on a broad range of biochemical pathways. (Michael W. King, Indiana University School of Medicine)
  • Biochemistry of Carbohydrates
  • Glycoprotein Synthesis
  • Post-Translational Modification
• Thorkild's Lectin Page - Information about lectins (proteins and glycoproteins that bind the sugar moeities of glycoconjugates), about the lectin people and links to other lectin pages.
• Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia with basic overviews. (Beginner's Level)
  • Carbohydrate
  • Disaccharide
  • Glycosylation
  • GPI Anchor
  • Monosaccharide
  • Oligosaccharide
  • Polysaccharide
  • Sugar

Carbohydrate Databases

• CAZy (Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes) - "The CAZy database describes the families of structurally-related catalytic and carbohydrate-binding modules (or functional domains) of enzymes that degrade, modify, or create glycosidic bonds." (Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
• Complex Carbohydrate Structure Database (CarbBank)
• Consortium for Functional Glycomics - A "large research initiative funded by NIGMS to understand the role of carbohydrate-protein interactions at the cell surface in cell-cell communication."
  • Glycan-Binding Proteins (GBP) Molecule Page - An "integrated presentation of information from public databases and the Scientific Cores of the Consortium."
  • Glycan Database - Structural and chemical information with related references.
  • Glycan Profiling - "Glycan profiling experiments [...] identify the presence of various N- and O-linked glycans in human and mouse tissues, using MALDI experiments and further analysis. For each species, the data are organized by tissue type."
  • Glycosylation Pathways - "The Glycosylation Pathways pages provide a graphical interface for navigating the glycoenzyme database. These pages are divided into six categories: Glycosphingolipid[,...] N-linked[,...] Mucin[,] Terminal Core 1[,] Other O-linked[,] Terminal All[.]"
  • Microarray Data
  • Mouse Line Phenotype Analysis - "Information on experiments, core summaries and raw downloadable data are provided."
  • Primary Screen Data - "Results from high-throughput screening for identifying lectin-ligand interactions performed by the Protein-Carbohydrate Interaction Core (H) are summarized here."
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Nomenclature Home Page - Recommendations on chemical nomenclature, symbols and terminology.
  • Carbohydrate Nomenclature
  • Polysaccharide Conformations
• Sugabase

Discussion Groups

• GLYCOSCI/bionet.glycosci - Glycoscience and glyconjugate research. (Usenet newsgroup archives from BIOSCI/bionet; can also be accessed through Google Groups: bionet)

See also the Discussion Groups section of the General Resources and Tutorials page.

Labs Studying Carbohydrates or Glycosylation

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