Extracellular sugar-based biopolymers matrices [electronic resource] / Ephraim Cohen, Hans Merzendorfer, editors.

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an acellular three-dimensional network composed of proteins, glycoproteins, proteoglycans and exopolysaccharides. It primarily serves as a structural component in the tissues and organs of plants and animals, or forms biofilms in which bacterial cells are embedded....

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Cohen, Ephraim, Merzendorfer, Hans
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2019.
Series:Biologically-inspired systems ; 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Aminosugar-Based Exopolysaccharides Chitin-based extracellular matrices. Chapter1. Chito-Protein Matrices in Arthropod Exoskeletons and Peritrophic Membranes(Xiaoming Zhao, Jianzhen Zhang and Kun Yan Zhu)
  • Chapter2. Mineral-Chitin Composite in Mollusks (Ingrid M. Weiss)
  • Chapter3. Chitosan Derivatives and Grafted Adjuncts With Unique Properties (Hans Merzendorfer)
  • Chapter4. Hyaluronan Extracellular Matrix
  • Synthesis and Physiological Properties (Alberto Passi and Davide Vigetti)
  • Chapter5. Sulfated Chondroitin, Dermatan, Heparan and Keratan
  • Structure and Function (Emiliano Bedini, Maria Michela Corsaro, Alfonso Fernández-Mayoralas and Alfonso Iadonisi)
  • Chapter6. Peptidoglycan Structures, Biosynthesis and Deposition in Bacterial Cell Walls (Axel Walter and Christoph Mayer)
  • Chapter7. Cellulose and Hemicellulose Synthesis and their Regulation in Plant Cells (Xiaoyu Zhu, Xiaoran Xin, and Ying Gu)
  • Chapter8. Cellulose in Bacterial Biofilms (Diego O. Serra and Regine Hengge)
  • Chapter9. Role of Glucan-Derived Polymers in the Pathogenic Fungus Candida albicans
  • Chapter10. Structure and Biological Properties of Lasiodiplodan (Mário A. A. Cunha, Vidiany A. Q. Santos, Gabrielle C. Calegari, William N. Sánchez Luna, Sandra L. A. Marin, Robert F.H. Dekker and Aneli M. Barbosa-Dekker)
  • Chapter11. Structure and Biological Properties of Botryosphaeran (Robert F.H. Dekker, Eveline A.I.F. Queiroz, Mario A.A. Cunha, and Aneli M Barbosa-Dekker)
  • Chapter12. Pectic Polysaccharides in Plants: Structures, Biosynthesis and Functions (Charles Anderson)
  • Chapter13. Alginate-based bacterial biofilms (M. Fata Moradali and Bernd H. A. Rehm)
  • Part2. Industrial and Biomedical Applications of Biopolysaccharides. chapter14. Chitin/Chitosan - Versatile Ecological, Industrial and Biomedical Aapplications (Hans Merzendorfer and Ephraim Cohen)
  • chapter15. Marine Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and GAG-Mimetics
  • Applications in Medicine and Tissue Engineering (Sy lvia Colliec-Jouault and Agata Zykwinska)
  • chapter16. Alginate
  • Pharmacological and Medical Applications (Patrícia Sofia Pinhanços Batista, Alcina Maria Miranda Bernardo de Morais, Maria Manuela Estevez Pintado, and Rui Manuel Santos Costa de Morais)
  • Chapter17. Nanocellulose Composite Biomaterials in Industry and Medicine (Oded Shoseyov, Doron Kam, Tal Ben Shalom, Zvi Shtein, Sapir Vinkler and Yehudit Posen)