{"id":24548,"date":"2019-04-07T09:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24548"},"modified":"2019-04-07T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T14:07:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/04\/07\/word-of-the-day-462\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glycome<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0glycome<\/b>\u00a0is the entire complement of\u00a0sugars<\/a>, whether free or present in more complex\u00a0molecules<\/a>, of an\u00a0organism<\/a>. An alternative\u00a0definition<\/a>\u00a0is the entirety of\u00a0carbohydrates<\/a>\u00a0in a\u00a0cell<\/a>. The glycome may in fact be one of the most complex entities in\u00a0nature<\/a>. “Glycomics<\/a>, analogous to\u00a0genomics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0proteomics<\/a>, is the systematic study of all\u00a0glycan<\/a>\u00a0structures of a given cell type or organism” and is a subset of\u00a0glycobiology<\/a>. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Move over, DNA. Life’s other code is more subtle and far more powerful<\/em><\/a>,” Hayley Bennett, NewScientist<\/em><\/strong> (29 March 2019, paywall):<\/p>\n

The genetic code<\/a> has just four biochemical letters strung together in lines. But the sugar code, known as the glycome, contains tens of different sugars that fit together in branched strings called glycans (see Diagram). Reading the sugar code isn\u2019t just a case of decoding it letter by letter, but recognising the shape of each sugar and understanding what it means. That is hard. \u201cIt was so much easier to build on the DNA code, to develop tools for genomics,\u201d says Godula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glycome: The\u00a0glycome\u00a0is the entire complement of\u00a0sugars, whether free or present in more complex\u00a0molecules, of an\u00a0organism. An alternative\u00a0definition\u00a0is the entirety of\u00a0carbohydrates\u00a0in a\u00a0cell. The glycome may in fact be one of the most complex entities in\u00a0nature. “Glycomics, analogous to\u00a0genomics\u00a0and\u00a0proteomics, is the systematic study of all\u00a0glycan\u00a0structures of a given cell type or organism” \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24549,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548\/revisions\/24549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}