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Carbohydrate Nomenclature - Revision and extension of IUPAC Recommendations

The aim of this revision and extension is to bring up-to-date the existing Carbohydrate document in the light of the enormous progress made in the areas of glycoscience, biotechnology and bio-informatics in the past 20 years.

The nomenclature of carbohydrates as described in the IUPAC/IUBMB document of 1996 (Pure Appl. Chem., 1996, Vol. 68, No. 10, pp. 1919-2008; http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac199668101919) has served as an immense help for authors and editors to name the compounds unambiguously. Since 1996, the number of compounds that have been discovered and/or synthesized has grown enormously. The number of constituting monomers and substituents has increased, i.e. due to study of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates in a larger range of organisms in the animal and plant kingdoms and to the progress in analytical and synthetic methods.

The current document requires a profound up-date to be applicable to the newly identified compounds and to the recent developments in the area of chemical and systems biology of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates. Abbreviations and trivial names need to be extended.

Furthermore, the explosion of data stemming from glycomics and glycoproteomics, necessitates the connection with databases for presenting adequately carbohydrate structure and sequence information. There exist a number of databases, each covering different collections of data. Developing guidelines for harmonizing these data are within the goals to be achieved. Another aspect deals with the correction of some names.

 

 

• Vliegenthart, J.

• Brecher, Jonathan
• Frank, Martin
• Hellwich, Karl-Heinz
• Horton, Derek
• Lütteke, Thomas
• Moss, Gerard
• Oscarson, Stefan
• Rauter, Amélia
• Sonnino, Sandro
• Xavier, Nuno