N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine has been used:
- as sugar for competitive inhibition in lectin histochemistry
- as a component in Barbour-Stonner-Kelly (BSK) medium for cultivating Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes strains
- as a component of binding buffer to suspend Streptococcus pneumoniae strains for inhibition assay to examine the specificity of M-ficolin binding to S. pneumoniae strains