División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
School of Chemistry and MIB, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Adv Biochem Eng Biotechnol. 2021;175:435-456. doi: 10.1007/10_2019_112.
Glycan (or carbohydrate) arrays have become an essential tool in glycomics, providing fast and high-throughput data on protein-carbohydrate interactions with small amounts of carbohydrate ligands. The general concepts of glycan arrays have been adopted from other microarray technologies such as those used for nucleic acid and proteins. However, carbohydrates have presented their own challenges, in particular in terms of access to glycan probes, linker attachment chemistries and analysis, which will be reviewed in this chapter. As more and more glycan probes have become available through chemical and enzymatic synthesis and robust linker chemistries have been developed, the applications of glycan arrays have dramatically increased over the past 10 years, which will be illustrated with recent examples.
糖链(或碳水化合物)芯片已成为糖组学的重要工具,可提供少量碳水化合物配体与蛋白质相互作用的快速、高通量数据。糖链芯片的一般概念是从其他微阵列技术(如核酸和蛋白质微阵列)中借鉴而来的。然而,碳水化合物提出了自己的挑战,特别是在糖链探针的获取、连接子连接化学和分析方面,这将在本章中进行回顾。随着越来越多的糖链探针通过化学和酶合成获得,并且已经开发出了强大的连接子化学,糖链芯片的应用在过去 10 年中急剧增加,我们将用最近的例子来说明这一点。