Application of microarrays for deciphering the structure and function of the human glycome

Mol Cell Proteomics. 2013 Apr;12(4):902-12. doi: 10.1074/mcp.R112.027110. Epub 2013 Feb 14.

Abstract

Glycan structures were defined historically using multiple methods to determine composition, sequence, linkage, and anomericity of component monosaccharides. Such approaches have been replaced by more sensitive MS methods to profile or predict glycan structures, but these methods are limited in their ability to completely define glycan structures. Glycan-binding proteins, including lectins and antibodies, have been found to have exquisite binding specificities that can provide information about glycan structures. Here, we show glycan-binding proteins can be used along with MS to help define glycan linkages and other determinants in unknown glycans printed as shotgun glycan microarrays.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carbohydrate Conformation
  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Glycomics
  • Humans
  • Microarray Analysis / methods*
  • Milk, Human / chemistry
  • Milk, Human / metabolism
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Polysaccharides / chemistry*
  • Polysaccharides / metabolism
  • Protein Binding

Substances

  • Polysaccharides