Chemical Synthesis and Engineering of N -Linked Glycoproteins
Understanding the function of protein glycosylation is an essential but thus far fairly rudimentary area of study, due to the incredible diversity of glycans that can be covalently attached to the peptide backbone. Access to homogeneous samples of glycoproteins is required to rigorously characterize glycan functions. Currently, chemical methods are a valid approach to obtain single glycoforms of a protein of interest. This chapter presents an overview of recent studies on the