Glycans glycoconjugates

The glycoproteins, together with the glycolipids, constitute the class of the glycoconjugates, the classification of which is given in Fig. 1 that is, the glycoconjugates are the products of association between a carbohydrate, which is called a glycan, with either a protein or a lipid. 

J. Montreuil and J. F. C. Vliegenthart, Primary Structure and Conformation of Glycans N-Glycosidically Linked to Peptidic Chains, Proc. Int. Siimp. Glycoconjugates, 4th, Woods Hole, 1977, Academic Press, New York, 1979, pp. 35-78. 

The development of chemical, physical, and enzymic methods for investigating the primary structure of the carbohydrate fractions of glycoconjugates has, during the past ten years, allowed the determination of the structures of numerous glycans. In this regard, the combination of the techniques of permethylation and 360-MHz, proton-n.m.r. spectroscopy has afforded real progress in the rapid determination of the primary structures of oligosaccharide chains. 

Geyer, H., Wuhrer, M., Kurokawa, T. and Geyer, R. (2004) Characterization of keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) glycans sharing a carbohydrate epitope with Schistosoma mansoni glycoconjugates. Micron 35, 105-106. 

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