Fig. 1: Overview of the sequence-defined glycan library used in this study. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Overview of the sequence-defined glycan library used in this study.

From: Identification and characterisation of vaginal bacteria-glycan interactions implicated in reproductive tract health and pregnancy outcomes

Fig. 1

A Pie chart representing the glycan categories included in a customised sequence-defined glycan library for binding studies of vaginal microbiota. Numbers indicate the number of probes in main categories (Supplementary Data 1). Examples of glycans in each category are shown. PS polysaccharide, NS non-sulphated. B Diagram representing the methodology used for analysis of whole bacteria binding to sequence-defined glycans on microarrays. Glycans are covalently immobilised on NHS glass slides and binding performed with fluorescently labelled bacterial cultures of vaginal microbiota. C Bacterial collection with strain specification used for the study (Supplementary Data 4). * Strains purchased from ATCC or DMZ collections.

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