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Zhong X, Chen Z, Snovida S, Liu Y, Rogers JC, Li L. Capillary Electrophoresis-Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry for Quantitative Analysis of Glycans Labeled with Multiplex Carbonyl-Reactive Tandem Mass Tags. Anal Chem 2015; 87:6527-34. [PMID: 25981625 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b01835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Recently developed carbonyl-reactive aminoxy tandem mass tag (aminoxyTMT) reagents enable multiplexed characterization and quantitative comparison of structurally complex glycans between different biological samples. Compared to some previously reported isotopic labeling strategies for glycans, the use of the aminoxyTMT method features a simple labeling procedure, excellent labeling efficiency, and reduced spectral complexity at the MS(1) level. Presence of the tertiary amine functionality in the reporter region of the aminoxyTMT labels leads to increased ionization efficiency of the labeled glycans thus improving electrospray ionization (ESI)-mass spectrometry (MS) detection sensitivity. The use of the labeling reagent also makes electrophoretic separation of the labeled neutral and acidic glycans feasible. In this work, we characterized the ESI and collision induced dissociation (CID) behavior of the aminoxyTMT-labeled neutral and sialylated glycans. For the high-mannose N-glycans and small sialylated oligosaccharides, CID fragmentation of [M + Na + H](2+) provides the most informative MS(2) spectra for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. For complex N-glycans, MS(3) of the protonated Y1(H) ion can be used for relative quantification without interference from the HexNAc fragments. Online capillary electrophoresis (CE)-ESI-MS/MS analyses of multiplexed aminoxyTMT-labeled human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and different types of N-glycans released from glycoprotein standards were demonstrated. Improved resolution and quantification accuracy of the labeled HMO isomers was achieved by coupling CE with traveling wave ion mobility (TWIM)-CID-MS/MS. N-Glycans released from human serum protein digests were labeled with six-plex aminoxyTMT and subjected to CE-ESI-MS/pseudo-MS(3) analysis, which demonstrated the potential utility of this glycan relative quantification platform for more complex biological samples.
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- Xuefei Zhong
- †School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- §Thermo Scientific Pierce Protein Research, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford, Illinois 61105, United States
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- ∥School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, 361005, Xiamen, China
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- §Thermo Scientific Pierce Protein Research, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford, Illinois 61105, United States
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- †School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States.,‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Moh ES, Thaysen-Andersen M, Packer NH. Relative versus absolute quantitation in disease glycomics. Proteomics Clin Appl 2015; 9:368-82. [DOI: 10.1002/prca.201400184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2014] [Revised: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Edward S.X. Moh
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences; Macquarie University; Sydney Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences; Macquarie University; Sydney Australia
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Ahn YH, Kim JY, Yoo JS. Quantitative mass spectrometric analysis of glycoproteins combined with enrichment methods. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2015; 34:148-65. [PMID: 24889823 PMCID: PMC4340049 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2013] [Accepted: 11/20/2013] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Mass spectrometry (MS) has been a core technology for high sensitive and high-throughput analysis of the enriched glycoproteome in aspects of quantitative assays as well as qualitative profiling of glycoproteins. Because it has been widely recognized that aberrant glycosylation in a glycoprotein may involve in progression of a certain disease, the development of efficient analysis tool for the aberrant glycoproteins is very important for deep understanding about pathological function of the glycoprotein and new biomarker development. This review first describes the protein glycosylation-targeting enrichment technologies mainly employing solid-phase extraction methods such as hydrizide-capturing, lectin-specific capturing, and affinity separation techniques based on porous graphitized carbon, hydrophilic interaction chromatography, or immobilized boronic acid. Second, MS-based quantitative analysis strategies coupled with the protein glycosylation-targeting enrichment technologies, by using a label-free MS, stable isotope-labeling, or targeted multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) MS, are summarized with recent published studies.
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- Yeong Hee Ahn
- Division of Mass Spectrometry, Korea Basic Science InstituteCheongwon-Gun, 363-883, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Mass Spectrometry, Korea Basic Science InstituteCheongwon-Gun, 363-883, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Mass Spectrometry, Korea Basic Science InstituteCheongwon-Gun, 363-883, Republic of Korea
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Hu Y, Zhou S, Yu CY, Tang H, Mechref Y. Automated annotation and quantitation of glycans by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometric analysis using the MultiGlycan-ESI computational tool. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2015; 29:135-42. [PMID: 25462374 PMCID: PMC4516131 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.7093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2014] [Revised: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 11/06/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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RATIONALE Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) is currently considered to be a conventional glycomics analysis strategy due to the high sensitivity and ability to handle complex biological samples. Interpretation of LC/MS data is a major bottleneck in high-throughput glycomics LC/MS-based analysis. The complexity of LC/MS data associated with biological samples prompts the needs to develop computational tools capable of facilitating automated data annotation and quantitation. METHODS An LC/MS-based automated data annotation and quantitation software, MultiGlycan-ESI, was developed and utilized for glycan quantitation. Data generated by the software from LC/MS analysis of permethylated N-glycans derived from fetuin were initially validated by manual integration to assess the performance of the software. The performance of MultiGlycan-ESI was then assessed for the quantitation of permethylated fetuin N-glycans analyzed at different concentrations or spiked with permethylated N-glycans derived from human blood serum. RESULTS The relative abundance differences between data generated by the software and those generated by manual integration were less than 5%, indicating the reliability of MultiGlycan-ESI in quantitation of permethylated glycans analyzed by LC/MS. Automated quantitation resulted in a linear relationship for all six N-glycans derived from 50 ng to 400 ng fetuin with correlation coefficients (R(2) ) greater than 0.93. Spiking of permethylated fetuin N-glycans at different concentrations in permethylated N-glycan samples derived from a 0.02 μL of HBS also exhibited linear agreement with R(2) values greater than 0.9. CONCLUSIONS With a variety of options, including mass accuracy, merged adducts, and filtering criteria, MultiGlycan-ESI allows automated annotation and quantitation of LC/ESI-MS N-glycan data. The software allows the reliable quantitation of glycan LC/MS data. The software is reliable for automated glycan quantitation, thus facilitating rapid and reliable high-throughput glycomics studies.
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- Yunli Hu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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Zhang YW, Zhao MZ, Liu JX, Zhou YL, Zhang XX. Double-layer poly(vinyl alcohol)-coated capillary for highly sensitive and stable capillary electrophoresis and capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry glycan analysis. J Sep Sci 2015; 38:475-82. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201401025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2014] [Revised: 11/12/2014] [Accepted: 11/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Yi-Wei Zhang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS); MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering; College of Chemistry, Peking University; Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS); MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering; College of Chemistry, Peking University; Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS); MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering; College of Chemistry, Peking University; Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS); MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering; College of Chemistry, Peking University; Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS); MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering; College of Chemistry, Peking University; Beijing China
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Millán Martín S, Delporte C, Farrell A, Navas Iglesias N, McLoughlin N, Bones J. Comparative analysis of monoclonal antibody N-glycosylation using stable isotope labelling and UPLC-fluorescence-MS. Analyst 2015; 140:1442-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c4an02345e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A twoplex method using 12C6 and 13C6 stable isotope analogies of 2-aminobenzoic acid (2-AA) is described for LC-fluorescence-MS based quantitative and comparative analysis of N-glycans present on monoclonal antibodies.
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- Silvia Millán Martín
- Characterisation and Comparability Laboratory
- NIBRT – The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training
- Dublin
- Ireland
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- Characterisation and Comparability Laboratory
- NIBRT – The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training
- Dublin
- Ireland
- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Analytical Platform of the Faculty of Pharmacy
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- Characterisation and Comparability Laboratory
- NIBRT – The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training
- Dublin
- Ireland
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry
- Faculty of Science
- Biomedical Research Institute
- University of Granada
- 18071 Granada
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- Characterisation and Comparability Laboratory
- NIBRT – The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training
- Dublin
- Ireland
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- Characterisation and Comparability Laboratory
- NIBRT – The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training
- Dublin
- Ireland
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Zhao MZ, Tie C, Zhang YW, Deng Y, Zhang FT, Zhou YL, Zhang XX. Deuterated hydrazino-s-triazine as highly-efficient labelling reagent for glycan relative quantification analysis using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra12005e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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An innovative stable-isotope relative quantification strategy for N-glycans was achieved using self-designed non-reductive hydrazino-s-triazine deuterated derivative as labelling reagent combined with mass spectrometry.
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- Ming-Zhe Zhao
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)
- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Peking University
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines
- Institute of Materia Medica
- Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Beijing
- China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)
- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Peking University
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)
- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Peking University
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)
- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Peking University
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)
- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Peking University
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)
- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Peking University
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High-Throughput Analysis and Automation for Glycomics Studies. Chromatographia 2014; 78:321-333. [PMID: 25814696 PMCID: PMC4363487 DOI: 10.1007/s10337-014-2803-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2014] [Revised: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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This review covers advances in analytical technologies for high-throughput (HTP) glycomics. Our focus is on structural studies of glycoprotein glycosylation to support biopharmaceutical realization and the discovery of glycan biomarkers for human disease. For biopharmaceuticals, there is increasing use of glycomics in Quality by Design studies to help optimize glycan profiles of drugs with a view to improving their clinical performance. Glycomics is also used in comparability studies to ensure consistency of glycosylation both throughout product development and between biosimilars and innovator drugs. In clinical studies there is as well an expanding interest in the use of glycomics—for example in Genome Wide Association Studies—to follow changes in glycosylation patterns of biological tissues and fluids with the progress of certain diseases. These include cancers, neurodegenerative disorders and inflammatory conditions. Despite rising activity in this field, there are significant challenges in performing large scale glycomics studies. The requirement is accurate identification and quantitation of individual glycan structures. However, glycoconjugate samples are often very complex and heterogeneous and contain many diverse branched glycan structures. In this article we cover HTP sample preparation and derivatization methods, sample purification, robotization, optimized glycan profiling by UHPLC, MS and multiplexed CE, as well as hyphenated techniques and automated data analysis tools. Throughout, we summarize the advantages and challenges with each of these technologies. The issues considered include reliability of the methods for glycan identification and quantitation, sample throughput, labor intensity, and affordability for large sample numbers.
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Recent advances in hydrophilic interaction chromatography for quantitative analysis of endogenous and pharmaceutical compounds in plasma samples. Bioanalysis 2014; 6:2421-39. [DOI: 10.4155/bio.14.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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There is an increasing need for new analytical methods that can handle a large number of analytes in complex matrices. Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) has recently been demonstrated as an important supplement to reversed-phase liquid chromatography for polar analytes, particularly endogenous compounds. With the increasing popularity of HILIC, progressively more polar phases with diverse functional groups have been developed. In addition, the coupling of HILIC to mass spectrometry offers the advantages of improved sensitivity by employing an organic-rich mobile phase. This article reviews recent applications of HILIC for the analysis of endogenous and pharmaceutical compounds in plasma samples. Furthermore, based on recent studies, we provide a discussion of column selection, sample pretreatment for HILIC analysis, and detection sensitivity.
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Qiao X, Qin X, She D, Wang R, Zhang X, Zhang L, Zhang Y. Mass spectrometry-based tag and its application to high efficient peptide analysis – A review. Talanta 2014; 126:91-102. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2014.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Revised: 02/27/2014] [Accepted: 03/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Jiang K, Wang C, Sun Y, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Huang L, Wang Z. Comparison of chicken and pheasant ovotransferrin N-glycoforms via electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2014; 62:7245-7254. [PMID: 24998151 DOI: 10.1021/jf501352j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Species-specific ovotransferrin features a highly conservative protein sequence, but it varies in the structure of the attached oligosaccharides, which may contribute to the differences observed in its bioactivity and nutritional value. Herein, chicken ovotransferrin (COT) and pheasant ovotransferrin (POT) isolated by repeated ethanol precipitation of egg white were digested with peptide N-glycosidase F to release N-glycans. The obtained N-glyans were isotopically labeled with aniline and analyzed via electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and online hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (HILIC-MS/MS). Relative quantitation based on isotopic aniline labeling and HILIC-MS/MS analysis revealed in detail the conspicuous difference between COT and POT in the abundance of their N-glycan compositions and isomers. In total, 16 COT N-glycans were observed, including 1 core structure (3.18%), 3 hybrid type (5.42%), and 12 complex type (91.40%), whereas 21 POT N-glycans were found, including 1 truncated structure (1.88%), 1 core structure (6.26%), 3 high mannose type (5.20%), 6 hybrid type (19.14%), and 10 complex type (67.52%). To our knowledge, this study is the first qualitative and quantitative comparison of COT and POT N-glycosylation patterns. These results suggest that POT has a different glycosylation pattern compared to that of COT and thus the effect of its glycosylation pattern on its bioactivity is worthy of further exploration.
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- Kuan Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University , Xi'an 710069, PR China
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Zhou H, Warren PG, Froehlich JW, Lee RS. Dual modifications strategy to quantify neutral and sialylated N-glycans simultaneously by MALDI-MS. Anal Chem 2014; 86:6277-84. [PMID: 24766348 PMCID: PMC4082391 DOI: 10.1021/ac500298a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Differences
in ionization efficiency among neutral and sialylated
glycans prevent direct quantitative comparison by their respective
mass spectrometric signals. To overcome this challenge, we developed
an integrated chemical strategy, Dual Reactions for Analytical Glycomics
(DRAG), to quantitatively compare neutral and sialylated glycans simultaneously
by MALDI-MS. Initially, two glycan samples to be compared undergo
reductive amination with 2-aminobenzoic acid and 2-13[C6]-aminobenzoic acid, respectively. The different isotope-incorporated
glycans are then combined and subjected to the methylamidation of
the sialic acid residues in one mixture, homogenizing the ionization
responses for all neutral and sialylated glycans. By this approach,
the expression change of relevant glycans between two samples is proportional
to the ratios of doublet signals with a static 6 Da mass difference
in MALDI-MS and the change in relative abundance of any glycan within
samples can also be determined. The strategy was chemically validated
using well-characterized N-glycans from bovine fetuin and IgG from
human serum. By comparing the N-glycomes from a first morning (AM)
versus an afternoon (PM) urine sample obtained from a single donor,
we further demonstrated the ability of DRAG strategy to measure subtle
quantitative differences in numerous urinary N-glycans.
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- Hui Zhou
- Department of Urology and The Proteomics Center, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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Gläser K, Kanawati B, Kubo T, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Grill E. Exploring the Arabidopsis sulfur metabolome. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 77:31-45. [PMID: 24147819 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2013] [Revised: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 10/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Sulfur plays a crucial role in protein structure and function, redox status and plant biotic stress responses. However, our understanding of sulfur metabolism is limited to identified pathways. In this study, we used a high-resolution Fourier transform mass spectrometric approach in combination with stable isotope labeling to describe the sulfur metabolome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Databases contain roughly 300 sulfur compounds assigned to Arabidopsis. In comparative analyses, we showed that the overlap of the expected sulfur metabolome and the mass spectrometric data was surprisingly low, and we were able to assign only 37 of the 300 predicted compounds. By contrast, we identified approximately 140 sulfur metabolites that have not been assigned to the databases to date. We used our method to characterize the γ-glutamyl transferase mutant ggt4-1, which is involved in the vacuolar breakdown of glutathione conjugates in detoxification reactions. Although xenobiotic substrates are well known, only a few endogenous substrates have been described. Among the specifically altered sulfur-containing masses in the ggt4-1 mutant, we characterized one endogenous glutathione conjugate and a number of further candidates for endogenous substrates. The small percentage of predicted compounds and the high proportion of unassigned sulfur compounds identified in this study emphasize the need to re-evaluate our understanding of the sulfur metabolome.
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- Katharina Gläser
- Lehrstuhl für Botanik, Technische Universität München, Emil-Ramann Straße 4, D-85354, Freising, Germany
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Wang C, Wu Z, Yuan J, Wang B, Zhang P, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Huang L. Simplified Quantitative Glycomics Using the Stable Isotope Label Girard’s Reagent P by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry. J Proteome Res 2013; 13:372-84. [DOI: 10.1021/pr4010647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Chengjian Wang
- Educational
Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western
China, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Educational
Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western
China, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Educational
Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western
China, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Educational
Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western
China, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Chemistry
and Chemical Engineering School, Xianyang Normal University, Xianyang 712000, China
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- Educational
Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western
China, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Educational
Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western
China, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Educational
Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western
China, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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Ma YC, Lin CY, Her GR. Comparative study of sialyl glycoprotein with multiple glycosylation sites using isotope labeling and capillary liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2013; 27:2530-2538. [PMID: 24123641 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2013] [Revised: 08/16/2013] [Accepted: 08/16/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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RATIONALE A comparative strategy has been demonstrated using RNase B, a single-site N-linked high-mannose glycoprotein. Glycoproteins are more common with multiple glycosylation sites and with complex glycans. A strategy capable of differentiating the changes caused by glycoprotein concentration, glycosylation site occupancy, and a glycoform profile of complex glycoproteins would be beneficial. METHODS Tryptic-digested glycoproteins were labeled using 12 C,H-formaldehyde and 13 C, D-formaldehyde, purified, and then analyzed using capillary reversed-phase liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (RPLC/MS). The relative intensity of non-glycosylated peptides provided information on glycoprotein concentration variation. A site-specific glycoform profile variation was obtained by comparing the glycoform profile of CH2 and 13 CD2 glycopeptides. Determining the protein concentration and glycoform profile variations allows the glycosylation site occupancy variation to be calculated. RESULTS A strong correlation between the observed and prepared ratios for fetuin glycopeptides from 0.2 to 5 was obtained. Two fetuin samples with different glycoprotein concentrations (4-fold change), glycoform profiles (normal and modified), and glycosylation site occupancies (100% and 50%) were prepared, labeled, mixed, purified, and analyzed using RPLC/MS. The results of the comparative study had a strong correlation with the prepared values. CONCLUSIONS In this report, we demonstrated a comparative analysis of fetuin, a glycoprotein with multiple glycosylation sites and complex sialyl glycans. Compared to our previous approach, we made several modifications including the use of RPLC, a larger mass difference isotope tag, and isotope overlapping correction. The modified approach is expected to be applicable to most glycoproteins. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Yi-Chun Ma
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
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Walker SH, Taylor AD, Muddiman DC. Individuality Normalization when Labeling with Isotopic Glycan Hydrazide Tags (INLIGHT): a novel glycan-relative quantification strategy. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2013; 24:1376-1384. [PMID: 23860851 PMCID: PMC3769964 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0681-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2013] [Revised: 05/07/2013] [Accepted: 05/11/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The Individuality Normalization when Labeling with Isotopic Glycan Hydrazide Tags (INLIGHT) strategy for the sample preparation, data analysis, and relative quantification of N-linked glycans is presented. Glycans are derivatized with either natural (L) or stable-isotope labeled (H) hydrazide reagents and analyzed using reversed phase liquid chromatography coupled online to a Q Exactive mass spectrometer. A simple glycan ladder, maltodextrin, is first used to demonstrate the relative quantification strategy in samples with negligible analytical and biological variability. It is shown that after a molecular weight correction attributable to isotopic overlap and a post-acquisition normalization of the data to account for any systematic bias, a plot of the experimental H:L ratio versus the calculated H:L ratio exhibits a correlation of unity for maltodextrin samples mixed in different ratios. We also demonstrate that the INLIGHT approach can quantify species over four orders of magnitude in ion abundance. The INLIGHT strategy is further demonstrated in pooled human plasma, where it is shown that the post-acquisition normalization is more effective than using a single spiked-in internal standard. Finally, changes in glycosylation are able to be detected in complex biological matrices, when spiked with a glycoprotein. The ability to spike in a glycoprotein and detect change at the glycan level validates both the sample preparation and data analysis strategy, making INLIGHT an invaluable relative quantification strategy for the field of glycomics.
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- S. Hunter Walker
- W.M. Keck Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- W.M. Keck Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- W.M. Keck Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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Lattová E, Perreault H. The usefulness of hydrazine derivatives for mass spectrometric analysis of carbohydrates. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2013; 32:366-385. [PMID: 23345114 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2012] [Revised: 10/12/2012] [Accepted: 10/12/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Over the last years, extensive studies have evaluated glycans from different biological samples and validated the importance of glycosylation as one of the most important post-translational modifications of proteins. Although a number of new methods for carbohydrate analysis have been published and there has been significant progress in their identification, the development of new approaches to study these biomolecules and understand their role in living systems are still vivid challenges that intrigue glycobiologists. In the last decade, the success in analyses of oligosaccharides has been driven mainly by the development of innovative, highly sensitive mass spectrometry techniques. For enhanced mass spectrometry detection, carbohydrate molecules are often derivatized. Besides, the type of labeling can influence the fragmentation pattern and make the structural analysis less complicated. In this regard, in 2003 we introduced the low scale, simple non-reductive tagging of glycans employing phenylhydrazine (PHN) as the derivatizing reagent. PHN-labeled glycans showed increased detection and as reported previously they can be analyzed by HPLC, ESI, or MALDI immediately after derivatization. Under tandem mass spectrometry conditions, PHN-derivatives produced useful data for the structural elucidation of oligosaccharides. This approach of analysis has helped to reveal new isomeric structures for glycans of known/unknown composition and has been successfully applied for the profiling of N-glycans obtained from serum samples and cancer cells. The efficacy of this labeling has also been evaluated for different substituted hydrazine reagents. This review summarizes all types of reducing-end labeling based on hydrazone-linkage that have been used for mass spectrometric analyses of oligosaccharides. This review is also aimed at correcting some past misconceptions or interpretations reported in the literature.
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- Erika Lattová
- Chemistry Department, University of Manitoba, 144 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2.
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Yang S, Yuan W, Yang W, Zhou J, Harlan R, Edwards J, Li S, Zhang H. Glycan analysis by isobaric aldehyde reactive tags and mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2013; 85:8188-95. [PMID: 23895018 DOI: 10.1021/ac401226d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Glycans play significant roles in physiological and pathological processes. Therefore, quantitative analysis of glycans from normal and disease specimens can provide insight into disease onset and progression. Relative glycan quantification usually requires modification of the glycans with either chromogenic or fluorogenic tags for optical measurement or isotopic tags for mass spectrometric analysis. Because of rapid advances in mass spectrometry (MS) instruments in resolution, sensitivity, and speed, MS-based methods have become increasingly popular for glycan analysis in the past decade. However, current isotopic tags for glycan labeling are mostly mass-shift tags generating mass differences in precursor ions for quantification, which can complicate mass spectra. In this study, we report the synthesis and characterization of isobaric aldehyde reactive tags (iARTs) for glycan quantification using tandem MS. We applied iARTs to the relative identification and quantification of glycans of gp120, a glycoprotein from human immunodeficiency virus. The results show that iARTs provide strong signals for glycan identification. Although we only show the synthesis and characterization of two iARTs reagents, iARTs can be readily expanded to six-plex tags for quantitative analysis of six samples concurrently.
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- Shuang Yang
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
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Walker SH, Taylor AD, Muddiman DC. The use of a xylosylated plant glycoprotein as an internal standard accounting for N-linked glycan cleavage and sample preparation variability. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2013; 27:1354-1358. [PMID: 23681813 PMCID: PMC3689153 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2013] [Revised: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 03/21/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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RATIONALE Traditionally, free oligosaccharide internal standards are used to account for variability in glycan relative quantification experiments by mass spectrometry. However, a more suitable internal standard would be a glycoprotein, which could also control for enzymatic cleavage efficiency, allowing for more accurate quantitative experiments. METHODS Hydrophobic, hydrazide N-linked glycan reagents (both native and stable-isotope labeled) are used to derivatize and differentially label N-linked glycan samples for relative quantification, and the samples are analyzed by a reversed-phase liquid chromatography chip system coupled online to a Q-Exactive mass spectrometer. The inclusion of two internal standards, maltoheptaose (previously used) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) (novel), is studied to demonstrate the effectiveness of using a glycoprotein as an internal standard in glycan relative quantification experiments. RESULTS HRP is a glycoprotein containing a xylosylated N-linked glycan, which is unique from mammalian N-linked glycans. Thus, the internal standard xylosylated glycan could be detected without interference to the sample. Additionally, it was shown that differences in cleavage efficiency can be detected by monitoring the HRP glycan. In a sample where cleavage efficiency variation is minimal, the HRP glycan performs as well as maltoheptaose. CONCLUSIONS Because the HRP glycan performs as well as maltoheptaose but is also capable of correcting and accounting for cleavage variability, it is a more versatile internal standard and will be used in all subsequent biological studies. Because of the possible lot-to-lot variation of an enzyme, differences in biological matrix, and variable enzyme activity over time, it is a necessity to account for glycan cleavage variability in glycan relative quantification experiments.
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- S. Hunter Walker
- W.M. Keck Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- W.M. Keck Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- W.M. Keck Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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Bruheim P, Kvitvang HFN, Villas-Boas SG. Stable isotope coded derivatizing reagents as internal standards in metabolite profiling. J Chromatogr A 2013; 1296:196-203. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2013.03.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2013] [Revised: 03/22/2013] [Accepted: 03/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Relative quantification of biomarkers using mixed-isotope labeling coupled with MS. Bioanalysis 2013; 4:2525-41. [PMID: 23157360 DOI: 10.4155/bio.12.208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The identification and quantification of important biomarkers is a critical first step in the elucidation of biological systems. Biomarkers take many forms as cellular responses to stimuli and can be manifested during transcription, translation, and/or metabolic processing. Increasingly, researchers have relied upon mixed-isotope labeling (MIL) coupled with MS to perform relative quantification of biomarkers between two or more biological samples. MIL effectively tags biomarkers of interest for ease of identification and quantification within the mass spectrometer by using isotopic labels that introduce a heavy and light form of the tag. In addition to MIL coupled with MS, a number of other approaches have been used to quantify biomarkers including protein gel staining, enzymatic labeling, metabolic labeling, and several label-free approaches that generate quantitative data from the MS signal response. This review focuses on MIL techniques coupled with MS for the quantification of protein and small-molecule biomarkers.
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Hu Y, Desantos-Garcia JL, Mechref Y. Comparative glycomic profiling of isotopically permethylated N-glycans by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2013; 27:865-77. [PMID: 23495056 PMCID: PMC3673025 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Revised: 12/15/2012] [Accepted: 01/15/2013] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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RATIONALE Mass spectrometry based comparative glycomics is essential for disease biomarker discovery. However, developing a reliable quantification method is still a challenging task. METHODS We here report an isotopic labeling strategy employing stable isotopic iodomethane for comparative glycomic profiling by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS). N-Glycans released from model glycoproteins and blood serum samples were permethylated with iodomethane ('light') and iodomethane-d1 or -d3 ('heavy') reagents. Permethylated samples were then mixed at equal volumes prior to LC/ESI-MS analysis. RESULTS Peak intensity ratios of N-glycans isotopically permethylated (Heavy/Light, H/L) were almost equal to the theoretical values. Observed differences were mainly related to the purity of 'heavy' iodomethane reagents (iodomethane-d1 or -d3). The data suggested the efficacy of this strategy to simultaneously quantify N-glycans derived from biological samples representing different cohorts. Accordingly, this strategy is effective in comparing multiple samples in a single LC/ESI-MS analysis. The potential of this strategy for defining glycomic differences in blood serum samples representing different esophageal diseases was explored. CONCLUSIONS LC/ESI-MS comparative glycomic profiling of isotopically permethylated N-glycans derived from biological samples and glycoproteins reliably defined glycan changes associated with biological conditions or glycoproteins expression. As a biological application, this strategy permitted the reliable quantification of glycomic changes associated with different esophageal diseases, including high grade dysplasia, Barrett's disease, and esophageal adenocarcinoma.
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- Corresponding author: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, , Tel: 806-742-3059, Fax: 806-742-1289
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Because routine preparation of glycan samples involves multiple reaction and cleaning steps at which sample loss occurs, glycan analysis is typically performed using large tissue samples. This type of analysis yields no detailed molecular spatial information and requires special care to maintain proper storage and shipping conditions. We describe here a new glycan sample preparation protocol using minimized sample preparation steps and optimized procedures. Tissue sections and spotted samples first undergo on-surface enzymatic digestion to release N-glycans. The released glycans are then reduced and permethylated prior to online purification and LC-electrospray ionization (ESI)-MS analysis. The efficiency of this protocol was initially evaluated using model glycoproteins and human blood serum (HBS) spotted on glass or Teflon slides. The new protocol permitted the detection of permethylated N-glycans derived from 10 ng RNase B. On the other hand, 66 N-glycans were identified when injecting the equivalent of permethylated glycans derived from a 0.1-μL aliquot of HBS. On-tissue enzymatic digestion of nude mouse brain tissue permitted the detection of 43 N-glycans. The relative peak areas of these 43 glycans were comparable to those from a C57BL/6 mouse reported by the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG). However, the sample size analyzed in the protocol described here was substantially smaller than for the routine method (submicrogram vs mg). The on-tissue N-glycan profiling method permits high sensitivity and reproducibility and can be widely applied to assess the spatial distribution of glycans associated with tissue sections, and may be correlated with immunoflourescence imaging when adjacent tissue sections are analyzed.
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- Yunli Hu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
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Alley WR, Mann BF, Novotny MV. High-sensitivity analytical approaches for the structural characterization of glycoproteins. Chem Rev 2013; 113:2668-732. [PMID: 23531120 PMCID: PMC3992972 DOI: 10.1021/cr3003714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- William R. Alley
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- National Center for Glycomics and Glycoproteomics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- National Center for Glycomics and Glycoproteomics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- National Center for Glycomics and Glycoproteomics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Shah P, Yang S, Sun S, Aiyetan P, Yarema KJ, Zhang H. Mass spectrometric analysis of sialylated glycans with use of solid-phase labeling of sialic acids. Anal Chem 2013; 85:3606-13. [PMID: 23445396 PMCID: PMC3681956 DOI: 10.1021/ac3033867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The analysis of sialylated glycans is critical for understanding the role of sialic acid in normal biological processes as well as in disease. However, the labile nature of sialic acid typically renders routine analysis of this monosaccharide by mass spectrometric methods difficult. To overcome this difficulty we pursued derivatization methodologies, extending established acetohydrazide approaches to aniline-based methods, and finally to optimized p-toluidine derivatization. This new quantitative glycoform profiling method with use of MALDI-TOF in positive ion mode was validated by first comparing N-glycans isolated from fetuin and serum and was then exploited to analyze the effects of increased metabolic flux through the sialic acid pathway in SW1990 pancreatic cancer cells by using a colabeling strategy with light and heavy toluidine. The latter results established that metabolic flux, in a complementary manner to the more well-known impact of sialyltransferase expression, can critically modulate the sialylation of specific glycans while leaving others virtually unchanged.
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- Punit Shah
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231
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Sanda M, Pompach P, Brnakova Z, Wu J, Makambi K, Goldman R. Quantitative liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-multiple reaction monitoring (LC-MS-MRM) analysis of site-specific glycoforms of haptoglobin in liver disease. Mol Cell Proteomics 2013; 12:1294-305. [PMID: 23389048 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m112.023325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Development of liver disease is associated with the appearance of multiply fucosylated glycoforms of haptoglobin. To analyze the disease-related haptoglobin glycoforms in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, we have optimized an LC-MS-multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) workflow for glycopeptide quantification. The final quantitative analysis included 24 site-specific glycoforms generated by treatment of a tryptic digest of haptoglobin with α(2-3,6,8)-neuraminidase and β(1-4)-galactosidase. The combination of LC-MS-MRM with exoglycosidase digests allowed resolution of isobaric glycoforms of the haptoglobin-T3 glycopeptide for quantification of the multiply fucosylated Lewis Y-containing glycoforms we have identified in the context of liver disease. Fourteen multiply fucosylated glycoforms of the 20 examined increased significantly in the liver disease group compared with healthy controls with an average 5-fold increase in intensity (p < 0.05). At the same time, two tri-antennary glycoforms without fucoses did not increase in the liver disease group, and two tetra-antennary glycoforms without fucoses showed a marginal increase (at most 40%) in intensity. Our analysis of 30 individual patient samples (10 healthy controls, 10 cirrhosis patients, and 10 hepatocellular carcinoma patients) showed that these glycoforms were substantially increased in a small subgroup of liver disease patients but did not significantly differ between the groups of hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis patients. The tri- and tetra-antennary singly fucosylated glycoforms are associated with a MELD score and low platelet counts (p < 0.05). The exoglycosidase-assisted LC-MS-MRM workflow, optimized for the quantification of fucosylated glycoforms of haptoglobin, can be used for quantification of these glycoforms on other glycopeptides with appropriate analytical behavior.
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- Miloslav Sanda
- Department of Oncology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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Novotny MV, Alley WR, Mann BF. Analytical glycobiology at high sensitivity: current approaches and directions. Glycoconj J 2013; 30:89-117. [PMID: 22945852 PMCID: PMC3586546 DOI: 10.1007/s10719-012-9444-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2012] [Revised: 06/29/2012] [Accepted: 08/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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This review summarizes the analytical advances made during the last several years in the structural and quantitative determinations of glycoproteins in complex biological mixtures. The main analytical techniques used in the fields of glycomics and glycoproteomics involve different modes of mass spectrometry and their combinations with capillary separation methods such as microcolumn liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis. The need for high-sensitivity measurements have been emphasized in the oligosaccharide profiling used in the field of biomarker discovery through MALDI mass spectrometry. High-sensitivity profiling of both glycans and glycopeptides from biological fluids and tissue extracts has been aided significantly through lectin preconcentration and the uses of affinity chromatography.
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- Milos V Novotny
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
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Mechref Y, Hu Y, Desantos-Garcia JL, Hussein A, Tang H. Quantitative glycomics strategies. Mol Cell Proteomics 2013; 12:874-84. [PMID: 23325767 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.r112.026310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The correlations between protein glycosylation and many biological processes and diseases are increasing the demand for quantitative glycomics strategies enabling sensitive monitoring of changes in the abundance and structure of glycans. This is currently attained through multiple strategies employing several analytical techniques such as capillary electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. The detection and quantification of glycans often involve labeling with ionic and/or hydrophobic reagents. This step is needed in order to enhance detection in spectroscopic and mass spectrometric measurements. Recently, labeling with stable isotopic reagents has also been presented as a very viable strategy enabling relative quantitation. The different strategies available for reliable and sensitive quantitative glycomics are herein described and discussed.
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- Yehia Mechref
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA.
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Alley WR, Novotny MV. Structural glycomic analyses at high sensitivity: a decade of progress. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (PALO ALTO, CALIF.) 2013; 6:237-65. [PMID: 23560930 PMCID: PMC3992932 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-062012-092609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The field of glycomics has recently advanced in response to the urgent need for structural characterization and quantification of complex carbohydrates in biologically and medically important applications. The recent success of analytical glycobiology at high sensitivity reflects numerous advances in biomolecular mass spectrometry and its instrumentation, capillary and microchip separation techniques, and microchemical manipulations of carbohydrate reactivity. The multimethodological approach appears to be necessary to gain an in-depth understanding of very complex glycomes in different biological systems.
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- William R. Alley
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
- Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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Lazar IM, Lee W, Lazar AC. Glycoproteomics on the rise: established methods, advanced techniques, sophisticated biological applications. Electrophoresis 2012; 34:113-25. [PMID: 23161435 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201200445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2012] [Revised: 10/07/2012] [Accepted: 10/07/2012] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Glycosylation is the most complex form of protein PTMs. Affected proteins may carry dozens of glycosylation sites with tens to hundreds of glycan residues attached to every site. Glycosylated proteins have many important functions in biology, from cellular to organismal levels, being involved in cell-cell signaling, cell adhesion, immune response, host-pathogen interactions, and development and growth. Glycosylation, however, expands the biological functional diversity of proteins at the expense of a tremendous increase in structural heterogeneity. Aberrant glycosylation of cell surface proteins, as well as their detectable fingerprint in plasma samples, has been associated with cancer, inflammatory and degenerative diseases, and congenital disorders of glycosylation. Therefore, there are on-going efforts directed toward developing new technologies and approaches for glycan sequencing and high-throughput analysis of glycosylated proteins in complex samples with simultaneous characterization of both the protein and glycan moieties. This work is aimed primarily at pinpointing the challenges associated with the large-scale analysis of glycoproteins and the latest developments in glycoproteomic research, with focus on recent advancements (2011-2012) in microcolumn separations and MS detection.
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- Iulia M Lazar
- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
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Walker SH, Carlisle BC, Muddiman DC. Systematic comparison of reverse phase and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography platforms for the analysis of N-linked glycans. Anal Chem 2012; 84:8198-206. [PMID: 22954204 PMCID: PMC3689152 DOI: 10.1021/ac3012494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Due to the hydrophilic nature of glycans, reverse phase chromatography has not been widely used as a glycomic separation technique coupled to mass spectrometry. Other approaches such as hydrophilic interaction chromatography and porous graphitized carbon chromatography are often employed, though these strategies frequently suffer from decreased chromatographic resolution, long equilibration times, indefinite retention, and column bleed. Herein, it is shown that, through an efficient hydrazone formation derivatization of N-linked glycans (~4 h of additional sample preparation time which is carried out in parallel), numerous experimental and practical advantages are gained when analyzing the glycans by online reverse phase chromatography. These benefits include an increased number of glycans detected, increased peak capacity of the separation, and the ability to analyze glycans on the identical liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry platform commonly used for proteomic analyses. The data presented show that separation of derivatized N-linked glycans by reverse phase chromatography significantly out-performs traditional separation of native or derivatized glycans by hydrophilic interaction chromatography. Furthermore, the movement to a more ubiquitous separation technique will afford numerous research groups the opportunity to analyze both proteomic and glycomic samples on the same platform with minimal time and physical change between experiments, increasing the efficiency of "multiomic" biological approaches.
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- S. Hunter Walker
- W.M. Keck FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- W.M. Keck FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- W.M. Keck FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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Schiel JE. Glycoprotein analysis using mass spectrometry: unraveling the layers of complexity. Anal Bioanal Chem 2012; 404:1141-9. [PMID: 22733248 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-6185-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2012] [Revised: 06/04/2012] [Accepted: 06/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A glycoprotein exists as a heterogeneous mixture of forms due to differential glycosylation, each of which may confer different functionality and/or serve as a biochemical marker for disease. The complex structure of glycans make them a bioanalytical challenge requiring multiple mass spectrometry based approaches to gain different types of information. The following article will briefly describe recently utilized mass spectrometry methods to identify glycosylation sites and measure glycan composition, sequence, branching, and relative quantities. Potential metrological developments are discussed in light of current trends toward complete, reliable glycoanalytical characterization in a high-throughput manner.
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- John E Schiel
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Analytical Chemistry Division, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
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Hahne H, Neubert P, Kuhn K, Etienne C, Bomgarden R, Rogers JC, Kuster B. Carbonyl-Reactive Tandem Mass Tags for the Proteome-Wide Quantification of N-Linked Glycans. Anal Chem 2012; 84:3716-24. [DOI: 10.1021/ac300197c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Hannes Hahne
- Chair for Proteomics
and Bioanalytics,
Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Emil-Erlenmeyer-Forum
5, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Chair for Proteomics
and Bioanalytics,
Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Emil-Erlenmeyer-Forum
5, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Proteome Sciences R&D GmbH & Co. KG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Thermo Scientific Pierce Protein
Research, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford,
Illinois 61105, United States
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- Thermo Scientific Pierce Protein
Research, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford,
Illinois 61105, United States
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- Thermo Scientific Pierce Protein
Research, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford,
Illinois 61105, United States
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- Chair for Proteomics
and Bioanalytics,
Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Emil-Erlenmeyer-Forum
5, 85354 Freising, Germany
- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Emil-Erlenmeyer-Forum 5, 85354
Freising, Germany
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