Comprehensive approach to structural and functional glycomics based on chemoselective glycoblotting and sequential tag conversion.

Changes in protein glycosylation profoundly affect protein function. To understand these effects of altered protein glycosylation, we urgently need high-throughput technologies to analyze glycan expression and glycan-protein interactions. Methods are not available for amplification of glycans; therefore, highly efficient sample preparation is a major issue.

BlotGlycoABCTM, an integrated glycoblotting technique for rapid and large scale clinical glycomics.

Recent progress in mass spectrometry has led to new challenges in glycomics, including the development of rapid glycan enrichment techniques. A facile technique for exploration of a carbohydrate-related biomarker is important because proteomics research targets glycosylation, a posttranslational modification. Here we report an "all-in-one" protocol for high throughput clinical glycomics.

One-pot solid-phase glycoblotting and probing by transoximization for high-throughput glycomics and glycoproteomics.

The development of rapid and efficient methods for high-throughput protein glycomics is of growing importance because the glycoform-focused reverse proteomics/genomics strategy will greatly contribute to the discovery of novel biomarkers closely related to cellular development, differentiation, growth, and aging as well as a variety of diseases such as cancers and viral infection. Recently, we communicated that rapid and efficient purification of carbohydrates can be achieved by employing sugar-specific chemical ligation with aminooxy-functionalized polymers, which we termed "glycoblotting" (see S.-I.