Pradman K. Qasba, Ph.D.
Chief of the Structural Glycobiology Section
Building FCRDC 469Biography: After receiving his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Synthetic Chemistry from Munich University. Germany, Dr. Qasba studied the transcription of phages and animal viruses during his postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, and later at the Laboratory of Biology of Viruses, at NIH. He initiated the molecular biological studies of Golgi glycosytransferases and alpha-lactalbumin and is currently investigating their structure-function relationships.
Conformation of Carbohydrates
V.S.R. Rao, P.K. Qasba and P.V. Balaji, all of Structural Glycobiology Section, Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA, and R. Chandrasekaran, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research and Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
This text offers a solid background in the conformation of carbohydrates with a brief description of the methods used for their analysis. It provides information on the conformations of mono-, di-, oligo- and polysaccharides and a basis for understanding the interactions between themselves and with proteins, nucleic acids or any other macromolecule. The authors have gathered a wealth of information on carbohydrate structures, different methods of conformational analysis, the role of carbohydrates as recognition molecules in biological systems, and their industrial applications.