16^th World Glycobiology Congress

Glycolipids and Glycopeptides

Glycolipids are narrow in elements but well-known to be main and vital suppliers of glycoconjugates in all zones of life. The physical diversity of glycolipids is exceptional, as dissimilar types of lipids are glycosylated in nearly every systems of life like animals, plants, and bacteria. Their fundamental role is to continue constancy of the membrane and to enable other cellular recognition. They act as glycan-carriers in the membranes of photosynthetic structures in, algae, plants and bacteria.

Glycopeptides are principally peptides that comprise carbohydrate moieties normally glycan’s which are covalently attached to the side chains of the amino acid residues that constitute the peptide. These comprise a course of drugs of microbial origin that are collected of glycosylated cyclic or polycyclic non ribosomal peptides.