Novel pathways in complex-type oligosaccharide synthesis: New vistas opened by studies in invertebrates

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 435, Issue , 1998, Pages 3-7

  Van Den Eijnden, Dirk H ^a   Neeleman, Alex P ^a   Bakker, Hans ^a   Van Die, Irma ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES;

EID: 0031606780     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5383-0_1     Document Type: Article

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