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glycan /gly·can/ (gli´kan) polysaccharide.
gly·can (glkn, -kn)

polysaccharide [pol″e-sak´ah-rīd]
a carbohydrate which, on acid hydrolysis, yields many monosaccharides.

glycan
polysaccharide.


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They have organized the contributions into sections concentrating on glycoprotein and proteoglycan analysis; glycosylation site determination methods; the use of bioinformatic tools for analysis of mass spectrometric data on glycans; analysis of the specific single O-GlcNAc molecule found on nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins; and methods for measuring glycan biomolecular interactions using glycan arrays, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, antibodies, and small molecule inhibitors.
Extracellular S100B acts as a beneficial factor by stimulating neurite outgrowth and cell survival through interactions with the receptor for advanced glycan end products, when present at nanomolar concentration (Businaro et al.
Presence of two glycans in the N-terminal fragment is more conducive to proper folding and secretion into the medium than one glycan, which largely remains in the ER [29].
 
 
 
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