Polysaccharide Shapes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1 Basic ideas about molecular shape.
• 1.1 Shapes of biopolymers.
• 1.2 Conformational principles.
• 1.3 Shapes in equilibrium.
• 2 The building units.
• 2.1 Pyranose (six membered) forms.
• 2.2 Furanose (five membered) forms.
• 2.3 Other forms.
• 2.4 Conformation and configuration: isomers and derivatives.
• 2.5 Sugar shapes in hydrolysis of carbohydrate chains.
• 2.6 Prediction of shapes.
• 2.7 Natural building units.
• 3 The linkages.
• 3.1 Linkage structures and patterns.
• 3.2 Linkage conformation.
• 3.3 Chain conformation: order versus disorder.
• 4 Simple carbohydrate chains of the periodic type.
• 4.1 Conformational families.
• 4.2 Occurrence, properties and function of the ribbon family.
• 4.3 Occurrence, properties and function of the hollow helix family.
• 4.4 Loosely jointed linkages and chains.
• 5 More complex carbohydrate chains.
• 5.1 Periodic chains with mixed linkages.
• 5.2 Interrupted chain sequences.
• 5.3 Aperiodic sequences.
• References.