Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Multiplex glycan bead array for high throughput and high content analyses of glycan binding proteins

  • Sharad Purohit,
  • Tiehai Li,
  • Wanyi Guan,
  • Xuezheng Song,
  • Jing Song,
  • Yanna Tian,
  • Lei Li,
  • Ashok Sharma,
  • Boying Dun,
  • David Mysona,
  • Sharad Ghamande,
  • Bunja Rungruang,
  • Richard D. Cummings,
  • Peng George Wang,
  • Jin-Xiong She

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02747-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The low throughput or content of current methods for the analysis of glycans-glycan binding proteins (GBPs) interactions hampers their clinical applications. Here, the authors conjugate synthesized glycans to Luminex beads to detect GBPs and apply it for the discovery of ovarian cancer biomarkers.