CD BioGlyco has extensive research experience in glycan study, our research team provides professional and custom NMR-based analysis services for our clients. 2D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) may be used to supplement 1D NMR analysis, which is very effective in simplifying the detection of molecular structures from a chemical mixture even without additional chromatographic separation.
NMR is a powerful method for assessing biological mixtures' molecular structure, molecular interaction, molecular kinetics or dynamics, and composition. NMR-based glycan studies provide a significant advantage over chromatography and MS analysis for medium-sized polysaccharide molecules because NMR is more quantitative and reproducible and provides more comprehensive molecular structure information, such as ring chain linkage and conformation.
Fig.1 Structural Analysis of Glycans by NMR. (Lundborg & Widmalm, 2011)
1D NMR (1H and 13C NMR) is extensively employed in the characterization of polysaccharides. In both 1H and 13C NMR spectra, the α- or β-configuration of the anomeric proton (H1) and anomeric carbon (C1) in sugar residue is visible. Because of the limitations of the 1H NMR spectrum and the poor signals of the 13C NMR spectrum, 2D NMR technology is becoming more significant in the structural investigation of polysaccharides.
Fig.2 GSL NMR-based analysis strategies. (CD BioGlyco)
CD BioGlyco provides NMR-based GSL structure analysis services, and we offer our clients serval custom analysis proposals according to clients' requirements. We build an analysis platform that can program both 1D and 2D NMR-based analysis for GSL. Moreover, our research team has extensive experience in glycan chemistry and glycan biology.
CD BioGlyco provides custom GSL structure analysis services for our clients, if you have any questions or require details information, please feel free to contact us.
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