This article presents an enhanced form of a novel bottom-up glycomics technique designed to analyze the pooled compositional profile of glycans in unfractionated biofluids through the chemical breakdown of glycans into their constituent linkage-specific monosaccharides for detection by GC-MS. Potential applications include early detection of cancer and other glycan-affective disorders.
Zaare, S., Aguilar, J. S., Hu, Y., Ferdosi, S., Borges, C. R. Glycan Node Analysis: A Bottom-up Approach to Glycomics. J. Vis. Exp. (111), e53961, doi:10.3791/53961 (2016).