Main description:

Glycobiology of the Immune System and Disease explores the integration of state-of-the-art glycobiology and immunology to raise awareness of the multifaceted roles of glycans and lectins in the immune system. Glycobiology is a rapidly growing field in biology, with relevance to biomedicine, biotechnology and basic research. Considering the central role that glycans play in immune interactions, glycoproteins and carbohydrates are becoming the targets of next-generation therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics. Programmed remodeling of host glycans can modulate infection, autoimmunity, and cancer, while microbial glycoconjugates can serve as canonical innate receptor agonists that induce B cell and T cell activation.

This important reference investigates microbial and mammalian glycans and their protein-binding partners (lectins) and shows the role they play in all innate and adaptive immune responses. With its comprehensive overview of the field, this is an important resource for academicians, graduate and post graduate students as well as professors and faculty in the field of research in glycobiology and immunology.

Contents:

1. Glycans of the immune system
2. C-type lectin in host-pathogen interactions
3.Galectins
4. Siglecs and the immune system
5. CD22 and B cell signalling
6. New CD33-related Siglecs in the innate immune System
7. Modulation of Immune Tolerance by Siglec-sialic acid interaction
8. Siglecs and immune regulation
9. Siglecs and the Attenuation of Inflammatory Responses
10. The Regulation of the Life Span of Myeloid Cells in the Context of Inflammation by Siglec-8, Siglec-9, and Siglec-F
11.Siglecs, Dendritic cells, and T cell activation
12. Glycobiology of autoimmunity and chronic inflammation
13. Immune response and glycobiology
14. Glycobiology of fungus and infection
15. Glycobiology of virus and infection
16. Glycans as antibody epitopes
17. Glycobiology of bacteria and infection
18. Glycobiology of tumour and immunity
19. Therapeutic strategies based on microorganism and virus protein-glycan interactions