Download or read book Advances in the Engineering of Polysaccharide Materials written by Jun-ichi Kadokawa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polysaccharides and their related compounds are attracting much attention due to their potential as new functional materials in many research fields such as medicine, pharmaceutics, foods, and cosmetics. Therefore, precision synthesis of new polysaccharides with well-defined structure is increasingly important. For this purpose, enzymatic method is a very powerful tool because the reaction proceeds in a manner that is highly stereo- and region-controlled. This book focuses on advances in the practical synthesis of polysaccharides by phosphorylase-catalyzed chain-elongation from the perspective of polysaccharide engineering.