Sugars can do it too: Protein-like oligomerization of carbohydrates

(PhysOrg.com) -- In order for enzymes and other proteins in our bodies to work correctly, it is often necessary for multiple protein units to gather together into a larger structure. Chains of sugar molecules cannot do this—at least that is what was thought until now. A team led by Thomas Heinze at the University of Jena (Germany) and Stephen E. Harding at the University of Nottingham (UK) has now proven the opposite.

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