The synergy between glycoscience and nanotechnology will lead to a deeper understanding of glycobiology and to new glyco-materials with improved design and synergistic properties, derived from glycoscience concepts for future nanodevices. Glyconanoparticles are sugar-functionalized gold nanoclusters, which were developed to understand carbohydrate self-interactions involved in the cell adhesion. The development of this glyconanotechnology has allowed the preparation of multifunctional and multimodal glyconanoparticles as probes for biomedical applications. The most recent works on glyconanoparticles as multifunctional scaffolds for anti-carbohydrate vaccine development, as well as molecular imaging probes for both in vitro and in vivo labeling cells will be highlighted.

Glyconanoparticles as multifunctional and multimodal carbohydrate systems

245th National Meeting (2013)

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