Question: Binding carbohydrates to a solid phase

Roberto Mendez mendez at arc.ab.ca
Wed Oct 18 23:35:40 EST 1995
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Jacek: Regarding your question: Binding carbohydrates to a solid phase,
you will need a linking arm attacched (throug glycosidic bond) to the 
pyranosidic sialic acid. There are many examples of linking arms in the 
literature of carbohydrate chemistry.  My suggestion is that you check
Carbohydrate Research for this purpose. You did not mention the solid 
support you are using.rybka at immuno.pan.wroc.pl (Jacek Rybka) wrote:
>I am a research assistant in Institute of Immunology.
>I look for a simple method to bind a sialic (N-acetyloneuramminic)
>acid to a solid phase. My solid phase contains NH2 groups, so the best
>would be such a method which uses them. The crucial point is that the
>sialic acid must be bound in the piranosyl form (not as an open
>chain).
>Thank you in advance
>Jacek Rybka
>
>

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