These are recommendations of the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN), whose members are A. Cornish-Bowden (Chairman, France), A. J. Barrett (UK), R. Cammack (UK), M. A. Chester (Sweden), D. Horton (USA), C. Liébecq (Belgium), K. F. Tipton (Ireland), B. J. Whyte (Secretary, Switzerland).,
JCBN thanks a panel convened by C. C. Sweeley (USA), whose members were S. Basu (USA), H. Egge (Germany), G. W. Hart (USA, co-opted), S. Hakomori (USA), T. Hori (Japan: deceased 1994), P. Karlson (Germany), R. Laine (USA), R. Ledeen (USA), B. Macher (USA), L. Svennerholm (Sweden), G. Tettamanti (Italy) and H. Wiegandt (Germany), for drafting the recommendations; and other present or former members of the Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB (NC-IUBMB), former members of JCBN, and invited observers, namely A. Bairoch (Switzerland), H. Berman (USA), C. R. Cantor (USA), H. B. F. Dixon (UK), M. A. C. Kaplan (Brazil), K. L. Loening (USA), A. McNaught (UK), G. P. Moss (UK), J. C. Rigg (The Netherlands), W. Saenger (Germany), N. Sharon (Israel), P. Venetianer (Hungary), J. F. G. Vliegenthart (The Netherlands). Acknowledgement. This document was first published in Pure Appl. Chem. 69, 2475-2487 (1997): 1997 IUPAC. A World Wide Web version, prepared by G. P. Moss, is available at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/misc/glylp.html