Natural polysaccharides derived from renewable biomass sources are regarded as
environmentally friendly and sustainable polymers. As the third most abundant …

Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose that acts as a store of energy in times of
nutritional sufficiency for utilization in times of need. Its metabolism has been the subject of …

The expression of biological functions, such as enzyme catalysis, immune response, and
cargo transport in confined nanospaces, with very different physical and chemical …

Since the structure of the cucurbituril (Q [6]), a cyclic oligomer of 6 units of glycoluril linked by
12 methylene bridges, was first determined by Mock and co-workers in 1981,[1] a series of …

We present an extension of the Martini coarse-grained force field to carbohydrates. The
parametrization follows the same philosophy as was used previously for lipids and proteins …

The human gut microbiota performs functions that are not encoded in our Homo sapiens
genome, including the processing of otherwise undigestible dietary polysaccharides …

The crystallinity of amylose-fatty acid complex can be one of the indicators for the glycemic
index of rice products. X-ray diffraction (XRD), the standard method for measuring …

Recent advances in ab initio direct methods have enabled the solution of crystal structures
of small proteins from native X-ray data alone, that is, without the use of fragments of known …

Two new twisted cucurbiturils, cucurbit [13] uril (t Q [13]) and cucurbit [15] uril (t Q [15]), have
been synthesized and separated, and their structures have been confirmed by NMR …

Phospholipids (PLs) are a major class of lipid in rice grain. Although PLs are only a minor
nutrient compared to starch and protein, they may have both nutritional and functional …