Structure-function relations of carbohydrates by neoglycolipid arrays

The work presented herein is a new noncovalent glycoarray assembly method for microplates created by simply mixing together a carbohydrate and a teradecylamine. α-d-Mannopyranoside, α-d-glucopyranoside, and α-d-galactopyranoside were utilized in model studies and product formations were detected by lectin binding. The method can be extended to study the steric hindrance effect of carbohydrate-protein interactions, namely the structure-function relations of carbohydrates. These authors contributed equally to this work.