Dear Colleagues,

Carbohydrates play important roles in nature, and our understanding of them is increasing rapidly. Many recognition processes involving carbohydrates are of importance for proper functioning of biological systems. Similarly, carbohydrate recognition is, in many cases, part of disease. It is natural to expect that compounds affecting protein carbohydrate interactions have therapeutic potential. Thus far, this has only been seen for a select number of striking cases. In this Special Issue we welcome contributions that are involved in interference with disease causing processes. Timely topics in this area include the development of glycomimetics, covalent capture, multivalency, synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccines, antiadhesion of pathogens (viral, bacterial fungal), fluorosugars, iminosugars and others. 

Prof. Dr. Roland J. Pieters
Guest Editor

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• protein-carbohydrate interactions
• inhibitors
• glucomimetics
• multivalency
• bacterial adhesion
• viral adhesion
• iminosugars
• fluorosugars
• carbohydrate vaccins
• bacterial toxin inhibition