Carbohydrate microarrays in plant science

Jonatan Ulrik Fangel, Henriette Lodberg Pedersen, Silvia Vidal Melgosa, Louise Isager Ahl, Armando Asunción Salmeán, Jack Egelund Madsen, Maja Gro Rydahl, Mads Hartvig Clausen, William George Tycho Willats

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    Abstract

    Almost all plant cells are surrounded by glycan-rich cell walls, which form much of the plant body and collectively are the largest source of biomass on earth. Plants use polysaccharides for support, defense, signaling, cell adhesion, and as energy storage, and many plant glycans are also important industrially and nutritionally. Understanding the biological roles of plant glycans and the effective exploitation of their useful properties requires a detailed understanding of their structures, occurrence, and molecular interactions. Microarray technology has revolutionized the massively high-throughput analysis of nucleotides, proteins, and increasingly carbohydrates. Using microarrays, the abundance of and interactions between hundreds and thousands of molecules can be assessed simultaneously using very small amounts of analytes. Here we show that carbohydrate microarrays are multifunctional tools for plant research and can be used to map glycan populations across large numbers of samples to screen antibodies, carbohydrate binding proteins, and carbohydrate binding modules and to investigate enzyme activities.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHigh-throughput phenotyping in plants : methods and protocols
    EditorsJennifer Normanly
    Number of pages12
    PublisherSpringer
    Publication date2012
    Pages351-362
    ISBN (Print)978-1-61779-994-5
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-61779-995-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    SeriesMethods in Molecular Biology
    Volume918
    ISSN1064-3745

    Keywords

    • Carbohydrates
    • Microarray Analysis
    • Oligosaccharides
    • Plants

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