title: Glycan arrays as tools for infectious disease research.
abstract: Infectious diseases cause millions of deaths worldwide each year and are a major burden for economies, especially in underdeveloped countries. Glycans and their interactions with other biomolecules are involved in all major steps of infection. Glycan arrays enable the rapid and sensitive detection of those interactions and are among the most powerful techniques to study the molecular biology of infectious diseases. This review will focus on recent developments and discuss the applications of glycan arrays to the elucidation of host-pathogen and pathogen-pathogen interactions, the development of tools for infection diagnosis and the use of glycan arrays in modern vaccine design.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14424 Potsdam, Germany; Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Geissner
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14424 Potsdam, Germany. Electronic address: chakkumkal.anish@mpikg.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Chakkumkal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Anish
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14424 Potsdam, Germany; Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: peter.seeberger@mpikg.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Peter H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Seeberger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism; D054794:Glycomics / Q000379:methods*; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D006801:Humans; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D011134:Polysaccharides