Note: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Shared Territories: An Element of Culturally Sensitive Practice -- Cross-Cultural Practice: What Is It Really About? -- Considerations in Participatory Action Research when Working Cross- Culturally -- Use of a Consensus Building Approach to Plan Speech Services for Children with Cleft Palate in India -- Teaching Speech and Language Therapists in Sri Lanka: Issues in Curriculum, Culture and Language -- Preliminary Planning for Training Speech and Language Therapists in Uganda -- International and Cross-Cultural Issues: Six Key Challenges for Our Professions -- Bionotes.

Note: Front Cover -- Mechanisms of Saccharide Polymerization and depolymewzation -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. INHIBITION OF LIPID-LINKED SACCHARIDE FORMATION BY ANTIBIOTICS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. TUNICAMYCIN INHIBITION -- III. BACITRACIN INHIBITION -- IV. INHIBITION BY AMPHOMYCIN -- V. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2. THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF IMMUNOGENIC GLYCANS IN STREPTOCOCCUS FAECALIS BY THE THYMIDINE DIPHOSPHATE HEXOSE PATHWAY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3. REGULATION OF SUCROSE LEVELS IN PLANT CELLS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PROPERTIES OF THE ENZYMES -- III. ROLE OF Mg2+ -- IV. EFFECT OF SUCROSE -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4. MECHANISM OF ACTION OF DEXTRANSUCRASE1 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5. RAW STARCH DIGESTION BY MOLD GLUCOAMYLASES AND DEBRANCHING ENZYMES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- III. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6. DEGRADATION OF VARIOUS STARCH GRANULES BY AMYLASES -- I. DIGESTION OF STARCH GRANULES BY AMYLASES IN VITRO -- II. DIGESTION OF STARCH GRANULES I N VIVO -- III. DIGESTION OF STARCH GRANULES BY STREPTOMYCES PRECOX α-AMYLASE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7. STUDIES ON THE α-AMYLASE FROM STREPTOMYCES HYGROSCOPICUS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPERIMENTAL -- III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8. A NOVEL GLUCOAMYLASE FROM CLADOSPORIUM RESINAE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PRODUCTION AND PURIFICATION OF CLADOSPORIUM GLUCOAMYLASE Ρ -- III. STARCH BREAKDOWN BY CLADOSPORIUM GLUCOAMYLASE Ρ -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9. MECHANISM OF α-LIMIT DEXTRIN HYDROLYSIS BY INTESTINAL STJCRASE-ISOMALTASE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES -- III. RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 10. THE MODE OF ANCHORING OF SUCRASE-ISOMALTASE TO THES MALL - INTESTINAL BRUSH BORDER MEMBRANE AND ITS BIOSYNTHETIC IMPLICATIONS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE POSITIONING OF SUCRASE-ISOMALTASE IN THE BRUSH BORDER MEMBRANE -- III. BIOSYNTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS -- ACKOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11. THE ROLE OF PHOSPHORYLASE IN THE SYNTHESIS, OF STARCH IN MAIZE LEAF BUNDLE SHEATH CELLS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RESULTS -- III. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12. EVIDENCE FOR INDEPENDENT GENETIC CONTROL OF THE MULTIPLE FORMS OF MAIZE ENDOSPERM BRANCHING ENZYMES AND STARCH SYNTHASES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RESULTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13. ON THE EFFECT OF LIPIDS ON STARCH-METABOLIZING ENZYMES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN RELATION TO THE SIMULTANEOUS SYNTHI OF AMYLOSE AND AMYLOPECTIN IN STARCH GRANULES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RESULTS -- III. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14. STUDIES ON THE LYSOSOMAL DEGRADATION OF GLYCOGEN IN CULTURED HUMAN SKIN FIBROBLASTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15. A POSSIBLE ROLE FOR LIVER α-AMYLASE IN GLYCOGENESIS -- I. LIVER α-AMYLASE , YES OR NO? -- II. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- III. SYNTHESIS OF LIVER AMYLASE -- IV. FORMATION OF PRIMERS FOR GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16. THE INITIATION OF GLYCOGEN BIOSYNTHESIS IN HEART TISSUE -- I. THE GLYCOPROTEIN NATURE OF GLYCOGEN -- II. THE INITIATION OF GLYCOGEN BIOSYNTHESIS IN HEART TISSUE -- III. THE NATIVE PROTEIN-BOUND GLYCOGEN OF RAT LIVER -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17. PROTEIN PHOSPHATASES: PROPERTIES AND ROLE IN THE REGULATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS AND BREAKDOWN -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PHOSPHORYLASE PHOSPHATASE - PROPERTIES AND SPECIFICITY OF A Μ 35,000 ENZYME FORM (PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE C ) . -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 18. ENZYMATIC REGULATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS: PHOSPHORYLATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE BY CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE, CYCLIC AMP-INDEPENDENT SYNTHASE KINASE AND PHOSPHORYLASE KINASE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MULTIPLE PHOSPHORYLATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE -- III. MULTIPLE KINASES OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE -- IV. REGULATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 19. COMPARATIVE CATALYTIC PROPERTIES OF LIVER GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE ISOZYMES FROM NEWBORN AND ADULT RAT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 20. THE ACTION OF AN ACTIVE-SITE-DIRECTED IRREVERSIBLE INHIBITOR ON GLYCOGEN-DEBRANCHING ENZYME -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 21. HYDROLYSIS OF LEGUME SEED D-GALACTO-D-MANNANS BY α-D-GALACTOSIDASES AND 3-D-MANNANASES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 22. THE USE OF SPECIFIC β-GLUCAN HYDROLASES IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF β-GLUCAN SYNTHETASE PRODUCTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- III. RESULTS -- IV. DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 23. MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDASES FROM FLAVOBACTERIUM HEPARINUM: ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND USE FOR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CHONDROITIN SULFATES, HEPARIN, AND HEPARITIN SULFATES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SEQUENTIAL DEGRADATION OF HEPARIN AND HEPARITIN SULFATE BY MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDASES FROM FLAVOBACTERIUM HEPARINUM -- III. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CHONDROITIN SULFATES AND SPECIFICITY OF THE CHONDROITINASES FROM FLAVOBACTERIUM HEPARINUM -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 24. SOME RECENT ASPECTS OF THE SPECIFICITY AND MECHANISM OF ACTION OF TREHALASES1 -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE SPECIFICITY OF TREHALASES -- III . CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF NEW C-2 MODIFIED ANALOGS OF α,α-TREHALOSE -- IV . SOME NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF TREHALASE BY USING C-2 MODIFIED SUBSTRATE ANALOGS. , V. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 25. AMINE DERIVATIVES OF β-D-XYLOPYRANOSE AS REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE INHIBITORS OF β-D-XYLOSIDASES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MATERIAL AND METHODS -- III. RESULTS -- IV. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 26. DIGESTION OF CHITINOUS CUTICLE IN THE MOLT OF MANDUCA1 -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 27. TRIFLUOROACETOLYSIS, A NEW VERSATILE METHOD FOR STUDIES OF GLYCOCONJUGATES1 -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 28. BIOSYNTHESIS OF HEPARIN -- I· INTRODUCTION -- II. FORMATION OF THE CORE PROTEIN -- III. SYNTHESIS OF THE POLYSACCHARIDE BACKBONE -- IV. MODIFICATION OF THE HEPARIN PRECURSOR POLYSACCHARIDE (N-ACETYLHEPAROSAN) -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 29. SYNTHESIS OF HYBRIDS OF NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC POLYMERS AS MODELS FOR POLYSACCHARIDES, STARCH AND GLYCOPROTEINS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II· RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 30. STUDIES OF THE MAILLARD REACTION -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. REACTIONS OF D-GLUCOSE WITH METHYLAMINE, GLYCINE AND LYSINE -- III. REACTION BETWEEN SUGARS AND PHENOLS -- REFERENCES -- Index.