I'm looking for different ways of fusing a sugar molecule to an amino acid. I'm having difficulties finding the proper literatures to study them, and I was wondering if I could find some help here.
Glycosylation, the connection of sugar moieties to proteins, could be a post-translational modification (PTM) that gives more prominent proteomic diversity than other PTMs. Glycosylation is basic for a wide range of natural processes, counting cell connection to the extracellular matrix and protein-ligand interactions within the cell. This PTM is characterized by different glycosidic linkages, including N-, O- and C-linked glycosylation, glypiation (GPI anchor attachment), and phosphoglycosylation. Glycoproteins can be identified, purified, and analyzed by diverse strategies, counting glycan recoloring and visualization, glycan crosslinking to agarose or magnetic resin for labeling or purification, or proteomic investigation by mass spectrometry, respectively.