Surface Plasmon Resonance Study on the Interaction of Immobilized Macrocyclic Sugar Clusters with Lectins and Water-soluble Polymers
A surface plasmon resonance study indicates that an amphiphilic calix[4] resorcarene derivative having eight polar side chains with terminal galactose or glucose residues and four long alkyl chains are immobilized on a hydrophobic sensor chip; the resulting monolayer of the sugar moieties, exposed to the bulk aqueous phase, binds lectin polysaccharides, and ploy(vinylalcohol) in water.