Yoshiki Yamaguchi, PhD

Synthetic Cellular Chemistry Laboratory

RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research

Koichi Kato, PhD
Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems
National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Preface.- Chapter 1: The effect of N-glycans on glycoprotein folding and protein dynamics.- Chapter 2: Synthesis of glycosylated metal complexes for probing carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions.- Chapter 3: Unraveling of lipid raft organization in cell plasma membranes by single-molecule imaging of ganglioside probes.- Chapter 4: MALDI mass spectrometry imaging of N-linked glycans in tissues.- Chapter 5: Modern-omics technologies for isobaric glycan and glycoconjugate structure determination.- Chapter 6: Synchrotron-radiation vacuum-ultraviolet circular-dichroism spectroscopy for characterizing the structure of saccharides.- Chapter 7: Biophysical analyses for probing glycan-protein interactions.- Chapter 8: Structural aspects of ER glycoprotein quality-control system mediated by glucose tagging.- Chapter 9: Structural basis of protein Asn-glycosylation by oligosaccharyltransferases.- Chapter 10: Visualization of functional structure and kinetic dynamics of cellulases.-Chapter 11: Structure and dynamics of immunoglobulin G glycoproteins.- Chapter 12: Biophysical Approaches to Solve the Structures of the Complex Glycan Shield of Chloroviruses.- Chapter 13: Quantifying weak glycan-protein interactions using a Biolayer Interferometry competition assay: Applications to ECL lectin and X-31 influenza hemagglutinin.