Category Archives: Microarray

Glycosphingolipid Analysis using Fluorous Tags

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Marv

Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) are an important class of molecules which have been associated with several cellular functions including antigen activity, cell adhesion, and signal transduction.  As the name suggests these molecules consist of a glycan portion and a lipid portion.  Study … Continue reading →

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H1N1, Carbohydrates, and Microarrays

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Marv

The study of carbohydrates is of great interest since they are one of the most abundant of cell surface molecules and are, therefore, important players in many intercellular interactions.  An example from current events which illustrates the role of carbohydrates … Continue reading →

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Fluorous Peptide Microarrays

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Marv

Microarrays which are formed through fluorous immobilization of probes have been reported in the literature for small molecules and carbohydrates.  At ISoFT ’09, we reported the synthesis, purification, and immobilization of fluorous tagged peptides.  This work, conducted jointly by scientists … Continue reading →

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Click! Fluorous Immobilization of Probes

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Marv

The immobilization of fluorous tagged substrates to a fluorous modified glass slide has now been demonstrated by several different research groups for the formation of microarrays.  Fluorous based microarrays offer several advantages including low and uniform background fluorescence, low non-specific … Continue reading →

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New Application Notes for Life Science Applications

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Jeff

Two new Application Notes are now available from our Download page.   Fluorous Immobilization and Microarraying (pdf) details how to use our Fluorous Modified Glass Slides to create microarrays The Fluorous NuTip Protocol (pdf) shows how to use cysteinyl tagging and fluorous NuTips in your … Continue reading →

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