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Essay
Nature 437, 1239 (27 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/4371239a; Published online 26 October 2005
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Concept Exploring life's sweet spot
Peter H. Seeberger1
- Peter H. Seeberger is at the Laboratory for Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland; and at the Burnham Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Abstract
Glycomics: like proteins and nucleic acids, carbohydrates have essential roles in the cell, but the tools to synthesize and analyse this third class of biopolymer have, until recently, lagged far behind.
There are three main classes of repeating biopolymers: nucleic acids, proteins and carbohydrates. DNA is the blueprint of life.
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