Description
Product Describtion:N-Acetyl-D-galactosamine (GalNAc), an aminosugar, is a component of many O-linked and N-linked glycan structures. As UDP-GalNAc, GalNAc is the intial O-linked sugar to many serine and threonine residues in protein glycosylations.D-N-Acetylgalactosamine is an endogenous metabolite.Product Application:N-Acetyl-D-galactosamine has been used:as a Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA) haptenic sugar in lectin bead binding assay；to assess the specificity of lectin binding using lectin blot inhibition；in immunohistochemistry to pre-adsorb Wisteria floribunda lectin；Isotope Labelled analogue of N-Acetyl-D-galactosamine (A177000), an amino sugar derivative of galactose (G155250). N-Acetyl-D-galactosamine is the terminal carbohydrate forming the antigent of blood group A