Full Description
Polysaccharides and their related compounds are attracting much attention because of their potential for the applications as new functional materials in many research field such as medicines, pharmaceutics, foods, and cosmetics. Therefore, precision synthesis of new polysaccharides with well-defined structure is being increasingly important. For this purpose, enzymatic method is a very powerful tool because the reaction proceeds with highly stereo- and regiocontrolled manners. This book focuses on advances in the practical synthesis of polysaccharides by the phosphorylase-catalyzed chain-elongation on the basis of the viewpoint of polysaccharide engineering.
Contents
Introduction. General Scope for Enzymatic Tools in Engineering of Polysaccharide Materials. Phosphorylase-catalyzed enzymatic glycosylation. Phosphorylase-catalyzed enzymatic polymerization. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of amylose-grafted synthetic polymeric materials by phosphorylase catalysis. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of amylose-grafting heteropolysaccharide materials by phosphorylase catalysis. Preparation of nanostructured inclusion complexes in phosphorylase-catalyzed enzymatic polymerization ("Vine-twining polymerization"). Applications and material preparations by means of vine-twining polymerization by phosphorylase catalysis. Carbohydrate engineering by phosphorylase catalysis. Preparation of amylose-based nanomaterials by phosphorylase catalysis.
