Reusable glycan microarrays using a microwave assisted wet-erase (MAWE) process.

Mehta, Akul Y; Tilton, Catherine A; Muerner, Lukas; Gunten, Stephan; Heimburg-Molinaro, Jamie; Cummings, Richard D (2024). Reusable glycan microarrays using a microwave assisted wet-erase (MAWE) process. Glycobiology, 34(2) Oxford University Press 10.1093/glycob/cwad091

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Modern studies on binding of proteins to glycans commonly involve the use of synthetic glycans and their derivatives in which a small amount of the material is covalently printed onto a functionalized slide in a glycan microarray format. While incredibly useful to explore binding interactions with many types of samples, the common techniques involve drying the slides, which leads to irreversible association of the protein to the spots on slides to which they bound, thus limiting a microarray to a single use. We have developed a new technique which we term Microwave Assisted Wet-Erase (MAWE) glycan microarrays. In this approach we image the slides under wet conditions to acquire the data, after which the slides are cleaned of binding proteins by treatment with a denaturing SDS solution along with microwave treatment. Slides cleaned in this way can be reused multiple times, and an example here shows the reuse of a single array 15 times. We also demonstrate that this method can be used for a single-array per slide or multi-array per slide platforms. Importantly, the results obtained using this technique for a variety of lectins sequentially applied to a single array, are concordant to those obtained via the classical dry approaches on multiple slides. We also demonstrate that MAWE can be used for different types of samples, such as serum for antibody binding, and whole cells, such as yeast. This technique will greatly conserve precious glycans and prolong the use of existing and new glycan microarrays.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Pharmacology

UniBE Contributor:

Mürner, Lukas Dominic, von Gunten, Stephan

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0959-6658

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

15 Nov 2023 13:55

Last Modified:

28 Mar 2024 00:14

Publisher DOI:

10.1093/glycob/cwad091

PubMed ID:

37962922

Uncontrolled Keywords:

glycan binding proteins glycan microarrays microwave reusable microarrays

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/188931

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