Recent Aspects of Proteoglycan Syntheses

Abstract

Proteoglycans including heparin, heparan sulfate, chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, keratan sulfate and so on which exhibit many kinds of biological functions, have become good targets for the synthetic carbohydrate chemistry. Described in this minireview are the syntheses of proteoglycans, featuring the modern technologies in oligosaccharide synthesis.