“…Although genetic modifications helped to unveil the roles of GAGs to some extent, synergistic effects and compensation mechanisms between different proteoglycans and GAGs suggested a higher complexity of GAGs-mediated stem cell behaviors ( Corsi et al, 2002 ; Wadhwa et al, 2007 ; Bachvarova et al, 2020 ). To better decipher the specific sulfation pattern of proteoglycans, chemical, and enzymatic synthesis of GAGs ( DeAngelis et al, 2013 ; Gottschalk and Elling, 2021 ) with well-defined structures as well as characterization techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and chromatography have been utilized to better understanding the binding interactions between protein ligands and GAGs ( Li et al, 2016 ; Pomin and Wang, 2018 ; Vallet et al, 2021 ). These chemoenzymatically synthesized GAGs have mainly been used for exogenous addition to cellular and animal models with the objective to determining how GAGs interact with growth factors in vitro and in vivo .…”