Carbohydrate Microarrays
A special issue of BioTech (ISSN 2673-6284).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2015) | Viewed by 184
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Glycoscience, a field that explores the structures and functions of glycans (also known as carbohydrates or saccharides), has been recognized to hold great promises in divers areas, including biology, medicine, energy generation, and material sciences. Over the last decade carbohydrate microarrays have become essential tools in the field and are revolutionizing the unravelling of carbohydrate–protein interactions in health and disease processes. This special issue will cover several carbohydrate microarray platforms with differing immobilization or detection methodologies, and their applications in studies of diverse carbohydrate recognition systems, including immune lectins, pathogens and anti-cancer antibodies. Hopefully it will find readers in the glyco field and also outside the research area.
This special issue also attempts to highlight some of the interesting topics in the carbohydrate microarray technology, such as the importance of density and presentation of glycan probes for recognition, and the need for having an international carbohydrate microarray database to store and make available to broad scientific community microarray data from highly complementary platforms.
With best regards,
Dr. Yan Liu
Guest Editor
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