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Wading In A Glycan Sea: Investigations Of, And Developing Bioinformatic Tools For, Carbohydrate Active Enzymes And Gene Clusters In Prokaryotes, Catherine Ann Ausland
Wading In A Glycan Sea: Investigations Of, And Developing Bioinformatic Tools For, Carbohydrate Active Enzymes And Gene Clusters In Prokaryotes, Catherine Ann Ausland
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Carbohydrates are immensely important biomolecule found in all organisms on earth, serving roles in structure, energy storage, protection and/or cell signaling. Carbohydrates are composed of an immense diversity of linkages, monosaccharide moieties and substitutions making them likely the most diverse biomolecule on earth, as well as the most abundant, being synthesized by plants and algae. Carbohydrates are synthesized and degraded by all organisms on earth through the expression of carbohydrate active enzymes, or ‘CAZymes’. In bacteria, CAZymes have been characterized to cluster in with transporters, regulators and/or other genes in so-called ‘polysaccharide utilization loci’, or PULs, to degrade carbohydrate substrates …