Title: glycan microarray
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - glycan microarray
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.09812
Status: current

Definition
Glycans attached to a surface of a microarray.

Notes
1) Glycan microarrays are used for the characterization of lectins and other glycan-binding proteins via specific interactions with labelled glycan-binding proteins.
2) Specific lectin–glycan interactions are also used for the characterization of glycans in the opposite set-up (see lectin microarray, glycan profiling).

Related Terms
- glycan profiling: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09813
- lectin microarray: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09832
- lectins: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09831
- microarray: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09659

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 1121. 'Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018)' on page 1170 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1120)

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- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09812/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09812/xml

Citation: Citation: 'glycan microarray' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.09812
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