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Chen D, Gao J, Zheng D, Guo Z, Zhao Z. Gas Phase Conformation of Trisaccharides and Core Pentasaccharide: A Three-Step Tree-Based Sampling and Quantum Mechanical Computational Approach. Molecules 2023; 28:8093. [PMID: 38138582 PMCID: PMC10745714 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28248093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
Abstract
As an important component of N-linked glycoproteins, the core pentasaccharide is highly crucial to the potential application prospect of glycoprotein. However, the gas phase conformation study is a challenging one due to the size and complexity of the molecule, together with the necessity to rely on quantum chemistry modeling for relevant energetics and structures. In this paper, the structures of the trisaccharides and core pentasaccharides in N-linked glycans in the gas phase were constructed by a three-step tree-based (TSTB) sampling. Since single point energies of all the conformers are calculated at the temperature of zero, it is necessary to evaluate the stability at a high temperature. We calculate the Gibbs free energies using the standard thermochemistry model (T = 298.15 K). For trimannose, the energetic ordering at 298.15 K can be strongly changed compared to 0 K. Moreover, two structures of trimannose with high energies at 0 K are considered to provide a much better match of IR vibration signatures with the low Gibbs free energies. On this basis, the core pentasaccharide was constructed in three ways. The building configurations of core pentasaccharide were optimized to obtain reasonable low-energy stable conformers. Fortunately, the lowest-energy structure of core pentasaccharide is eventually the minimum at 0 K and 298.15 K. Furthermore, spectrum analysis of core pentasaccharide was carried out. Although poorly resolved, its contour from the experiment was in qualitative correspondence with the computed IR spectrum associated with its minimum free energy structure. A large number of strongly and weakly hydrogen-bonded hydroxyl and acetylamino groups contribute to a highly congested set of overlapping bands. Compared with traditional conformation generators, the TSTB sampling is employed to efficiently and comprehensively obtain preferred conformers of larger saccharides with lower energy.
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- Dong Chen
- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
- Henan Province Engineering Research Center of Metal Matrix in situ Composites Based on Aluminum, Magnesium or Copper, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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Lee J, Chai M, Bleiholder C. Differentiation of Isomeric, Nonseparable Carbohydrates Using Tandem-Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2023; 95:747-757. [PMID: 36547374 PMCID: PMC10126951 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Carbohydrates play important roles in biological processes, but their identification remains a significant analytical problem. While mass spectrometry has increasingly enabled the elucidation of carbohydrates, current approaches are limited in their abilities to differentiate isomeric carbohydrates when these are not separated prior to tandem-mass spectrometry analysis. This analytical challenge takes on increased relevance because of the pervasive presence of isomeric carbohydrates in biological systems. Here, we demonstrate that TIMS2-MS2 workflows enabled by tandem-trapped ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (tTIMS/MS) provide a general approach to differentiate isomeric, nonseparated carbohydrates. Our analysis shows that (1) cross sections measured by TIMS are sufficiently precise and robust for ion identification; (2) fragment ion cross sections from TIMS2 analysis can be analytically exploited to identify carbohydrate precursors even if the precursor ions are not separated by TIMS; (3) low-abundant fragment ions can be exploited to identify carbohydrate precursors even if the precursor ions are not separated by IMS. (4) MS2 analysis of fragment ions produced by TIMS2 can be used to validate and/or further characterize carbohydrate structures. Taken together, our analysis underlines the opportunities that tandem-ion mobility spectrometry/MS methods offer for the characterization of mixtures of isomeric carbohydrates.
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- Jusung Lee
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390, USA
- Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390, USA
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Harvey DJ. Analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry: An update for 2017-2018. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2023; 42:227-431. [PMID: 34719822 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This review is the tenth update of the original article published in 1999 on the application of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI) mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings coverage of the literature to the end of 2018. Also included are papers that describe methods appropriate to glycan and glycoprotein analysis by MALDI, such as sample preparation techniques, even though the ionization method is not MALDI. Topics covered in the first part of the review include general aspects such as theory of the MALDI process, new methods, matrices, derivatization, MALDI imaging, fragmentation and the use of arrays. The second part of the review is devoted to applications to various structural types such as oligo- and poly-saccharides, glycoproteins, glycolipids, glycosides, and biopharmaceuticals. Most of the applications are presented in tabular form. The third part of the review covers medical and industrial applications of the technique, studies of enzyme reactions, and applications to chemical synthesis. The reported work shows increasing use of combined new techniques such as ion mobility and highlights the impact that MALDI imaging is having across a range of diciplines. MALDI is still an ideal technique for carbohydrate analysis and advancements in the technique and the range of applications continue steady progress.
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- David J Harvey
- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Zappe A, Miller RL, Struwe WB, Pagel K. State-of-the-art glycosaminoglycan characterization. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2022; 41:1040-1071. [PMID: 34608657 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are heterogeneous acidic polysaccharides involved in a range of biological functions. They have a significant influence on the regulation of cellular processes and the development of various diseases and infections. To fully understand the functional roles that GAGs play in mammalian systems, including disease processes, it is essential to understand their structural features. Despite having a linear structure and a repetitive disaccharide backbone, their structural analysis is challenging and requires elaborate preparative and analytical techniques. In particular, the extent to which GAGs are sulfated, as well as variation in sulfate position across the entire oligosaccharide or on individual monosaccharides, represents a major obstacle. Here, we summarize the current state-of-the-art methodologies used for GAG sample preparation and analysis, discussing in detail liquid chromatograpy and mass spectrometry-based approaches, including advanced ion activation methods, ion mobility separations and infrared action spectroscopy of mass-selected species.
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- Andreas Zappe
- Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Copenhagen Centre for Glycomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Manabe N, Ohno S, Matsumoto K, Kawase T, Hirose K, Masuda K, Yamaguchi Y. A Data Set of Ion Mobility Collision Cross Sections and Liquid Chromatography Retention Times from 71 Pyridylaminated N-Linked Oligosaccharides. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:1772-1783. [PMID: 35997275 PMCID: PMC9460764 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Determination of the glycan structure is an essential step in understanding structure-function relationships of glycans and glycoconjugates including biopharmaceuticals. Mass spectrometry, because of its high sensitivity and mass resolution, is an excellent means of analyzing glycan structures. We previously proposed a method for rapid and precise identification of N-glycan structures by ultraperformance liquid chromatography-connected ion mobility mass spectrometry (UPLC/IM-MS). To substantiate this methodology, we here examine 71 pyridylaminated (PA-) N-linked oligosaccharides including isomeric pairs. A data set on collision drift times, retention times, and molecular mass was collected for these PA-oligosaccharides. For standardization of the observables, LC retention times were normalized into glucose units (GU) using pyridylaminated α-1,6-linked glucose oligomers as reference, and drift times in IM-MS were converted into collision cross sections (CCS). To evaluate the CCS value of each PA-oligosaccharide, we introduced a CCS index which is defined as a CCS ratio of a target PA-glycan to the putative standard PA-glucose oligomer of the same m/z. We propose a strategy for practical structural analysis of N-linked glycans based on the database of m/z, CCS index, and normalized retention time (GU).
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- Noriyoshi Manabe
- Division
of Structural Glycobiology, Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and
Glycobiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical
University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi981-8558, Japan
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- Division
of Structural Glycobiology, Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and
Glycobiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical
University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi981-8558, Japan
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- Structural
Glycobiology Team, RIKEN-Max Planck Joint Research Center, Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama351-0198, Japan
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- Nihon
Waters KK, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa, Tokyo140-0001, Japan
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- Nihon
Waters KK, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa, Tokyo140-0001, Japan
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- Graduate
School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka565-0871, Japan
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- Division
of Structural Glycobiology, Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and
Glycobiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical
University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi981-8558, Japan
- Structural
Glycobiology Team, RIKEN-Max Planck Joint Research Center, Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama351-0198, Japan
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Gao Z, He Y, He Q, Wei W, Luo Y, Ma Z, Chen W, Chu F, Zhang S, Liu Y, Pan Y. Multidimensional identification of disaccharide isomers based on non-covalent complexes and tandem mass spectrometry. Talanta 2022; 249:123674. [PMID: 35717753 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Glycans are the most abundant organic polymers in nature. They are essential to living organisms and regulate a wide range of biological functions. However, mass spectrometry-based identification of glycan isomers remains challenging due to the complexity of their structures including their complex compositions, linkages, and anomeric configurations. In this study, two novel complex ions, the mononuclear copper-bound dimeric ions [(Cu2+)(A)(L-His)-H]+ and the mononuclear copper-bound quaternary ions [(Cu2+)(A)(L-Ser)3-H]+ (where A denotes a disaccharide, and L-Ser/His denotes l-serine/histidine), were designed for the collision-induced dissociation-based identification and relative quantification of 14 disaccharide isomers. When the unique fragmentation patterns of the above two types of complex ions were mapped into a three-dimensional vector, all the isomers were completely distinguished. Of note, the established method is able to identify mixtures of linkage isomers only using tandem mass spectrometry based on linkage-specific fragment ions of histidine-based complex ions. Finally, the method was successfully applied to the identification and relative quantification of two disaccharide isomers (lactose and sucrose) in dairy beverages. In conclusion, the established method is sensitive to subtle structural differences in disaccharide isomers and has the potential to be used for the differentiation of various glycans.
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- Zhan Gao
- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, PR China.
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Grabarics M, Lettow M, Kirschbaum C, Greis K, Manz C, Pagel K. Mass Spectrometry-Based Techniques to Elucidate the Sugar Code. Chem Rev 2022; 122:7840-7908. [PMID: 34491038 PMCID: PMC9052437 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Cells encode information in the sequence of biopolymers, such as nucleic acids, proteins, and glycans. Although glycans are essential to all living organisms, surprisingly little is known about the "sugar code" and the biological roles of these molecules. The reason glycobiology lags behind its counterparts dealing with nucleic acids and proteins lies in the complexity of carbohydrate structures, which renders their analysis extremely challenging. Building blocks that may differ only in the configuration of a single stereocenter, combined with the vast possibilities to connect monosaccharide units, lead to an immense variety of isomers, which poses a formidable challenge to conventional mass spectrometry. In recent years, however, a combination of innovative ion activation methods, commercialization of ion mobility-mass spectrometry, progress in gas-phase ion spectroscopy, and advances in computational chemistry have led to a revolution in mass spectrometry-based glycan analysis. The present review focuses on the above techniques that expanded the traditional glycomics toolkit and provided spectacular insight into the structure of these fascinating biomolecules. To emphasize the specific challenges associated with them, major classes of mammalian glycans are discussed in separate sections. By doing so, we aim to put the spotlight on the most important element of glycobiology: the glycans themselves.
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- Márkó Grabarics
- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Separation Abilities of Capillary Electrophoresis Coupled with Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry for the Discrete Detection of Sequence Isomeric Peptides. SEPARATIONS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/separations9050106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The separation and discrete detection of isomeric sequence peptides with similar properties are important tasks for analytical science. Three different peptide isomers of 12 amino-acid residues long, containing direct and reverse regions of the alanine-valine-proline-isoleucine (AVPI) motif, were partially separated and discretely detected from their mixture using two approaches. Capillary electrophoresis enabled the separation and optical detection of the peptide sequence isomers close to the baseline. The ability to separate these sequence isomers from the mixture and discretely identify them from mass spectra has also been demonstrated by ion-mobility tandem mass spectrometry. Moreover, for the first time, capillary electrophoresis and ion-mobility mass spectrometry connected online have shown their ability for a discrete detection of the multidirectional sequence isomers.
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Gao Z, Li L, Chen W, Ma Z, Li Y, Gao Y, Ding CF, Zhao X, Pan Y. Distinguishment of Glycan Isomers by Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2021; 93:9209-9217. [PMID: 34165974 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The in-depth study of glycan has drawn large research interests since it is one of the main biopolymers on the earth with a variety of biological functions. However, the distinguishment of glycans is still difficult due to the similarity of the monosaccharide building block, the anomer, and the linkage of glycosidic bonds. In this study, four novel and representative copper-bound diastereoisomeric complex ions were simultaneously detected in a single measurement by trapped ion mobility mass spectrometry, including mononuclear copper-bound dimeric ions [(Cu2+)(A)(l-Ser)-H]+ and [(Cu2+)(A)(l-His)-H]+, the mononuclear copper-bound trimeric ion [(Cu2+)(A)(l-Ser)(l-His)-H]+, and the binuclear copper-bound tetrameric ion [(Cu2+)2(A)(l-Ser)2(l-His)-3H]+ (where A denotes an oligosaccharide, and l-Ser and l-His denote l-serine and l-histidine, respectively). By combining the collision cross sections of complex ions, 23 oligosaccharide isomers were successfully distinguished including two pairs of sialylated glycan linkage isomers. In addition, due to the unique dissociation pathways of the trimeric ion, both the relative and absolute quantification of the individual isomer in the mixture could be determined using a mass spectrometry-based kinetic method. Finally, the method established above was successfully applied to the identification and quantification of glycan isomers in dairy beverages and juice. The method in the present study was sensitive to the fine difference of glycan isomers and might have wide applicability in glycoscience.
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- Zhan Gao
- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Integrative Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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Sastre Toraño J, Aizpurua‐Olaizola O, Wei N, Li T, Unione L, Jiménez‐Osés G, Corzana F, Somovilla VJ, Falcon‐Perez JM, Boons G. Identification of Isomeric N-Glycans by Conformer Distribution Fingerprinting using Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry. Chemistry 2021; 27:2149-2154. [PMID: 33047840 PMCID: PMC7898647 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202004522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Glycans possess unparalleled structural complexity arising from chemically similar monosaccharide building blocks, configurations of anomeric linkages and different branching patterns, potentially giving rise to many isomers. This level of complexity is one of the main reasons that identification of exact glycan structures in biological samples still lags behind that of other biomolecules. Here, we introduce a methodology to identify isomeric N-glycans by determining gas phase conformer distributions (CDs) by measuring arrival time distributions (ATDs) using drift-tube ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry. Key to the approach is the use of a range of well-defined synthetic glycans that made it possible to investigate conformer distributions in the gas phase of isomeric glycans in a systematic manner. In addition, we have computed CD fingerprints by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which compared well with experimentally determined CDs. It supports that ATDs resemble conformational populations in the gas phase and offer the prospect that such an approach can contribute to generating a library of CCS distributions (CCSDs) for structure identification.
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- Javier Sastre Toraño
- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Exosomes LabCIC bioGUNE, CIBERehdDerioSpain
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- The University of GeorgiaComplex Carbohydrate Research CenterAthensGAUSA
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- The University of GeorgiaComplex Carbohydrate Research CenterAthensGAUSA
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNEBasque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA)Bizkaia Technology Park, Building 801A48160DerioSpain
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigación en Síntesis QuímicaUniversidad de La Rioja26006LogroñoSpain
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
- The University of GeorgiaComplex Carbohydrate Research CenterAthensGAUSA
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Pallister EG, Choo MSF, Walsh I, Tai JN, Tay SJ, Yang YS, Ng SK, Rudd PM, Flitsch SL, Nguyen-Khuong T. Utility of Ion-Mobility Spectrometry for Deducing Branching of Multiply Charged Glycans and Glycopeptides in a High-Throughput Positive ion LC-FLR-IMS-MS Workflow. Anal Chem 2020; 92:15323-15335. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Edward G. Pallister
- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
- School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), The University of Manchester, Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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- School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), The University of Manchester, Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 20 Biopolis Way, Biopolis 138668, Singapore
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Harvey DJ. NEGATIVE ION MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF N-LINKED GLYCANS. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2020; 39:586-679. [PMID: 32329121 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
N-glycans from glycoproteins are complex, branched structures whose structural determination presents many analytical problems. Mass spectrometry, usually conducted in positive ion mode, often requires extensive sample manipulation, usually by derivatization such as permethylation, to provide the necessary structure-revealing fragment ions. The newer but, so far, lesser used negative ion techniques, on the contrary, provide a wealth of structural information not present in positive ion spectra that greatly simplify the analysis of these compounds and can usually be conducted without the need for derivatization. This review describes the use of negative ion mass spectrometry for the structural analysis of N-linked glycans and emphasises the many advantages that can be gained by this mode of operation. Biosynthesis and structures of the compounds are described followed by methods for release of the glycans from the protein. Methods for ionization are discussed with emphasis on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and methods for producing negative ions from neutral compounds. Acidic glycans naturally give deprotonated species under most ionization conditions. Fragmentation of negative ions is discussed next with particular reference to those ions that are diagnostic for specific features such as the branching topology of the glycans and substitution positions of moieties such as fucose and sulfate, features that are often difficult to identify easily by conventional techniques such as positive ion fragmentation and exoglycosidase digestions. The advantages of negative over positive ions for this structural work are emphasised with an example of a series of glycans where all other methods failed to produce a structure. Fragmentation of derivatized glycans is discussed next, both with respect to derivatives at the reducing terminus of the molecules, and to methods for neutralization of the acidic groups on sialic acids to both stabilize them for MALDI analysis and to produce the diagnostic fragments seen with the neutral glycans. The use of ion mobility, combined with conventional mass spectrometry is described with emphasis on its use to extract clean glycan spectra both before and after fragmentation, to separate isomers and its use to extract additional information from separated fragment ions. A section on applications follows with examples of the identification of novel structures from lower organisms and tables listing the use of negative ions for structural identification of specific glycoproteins, glycans from viruses and uses in the biopharmaceutical industry and in medicine. The review concludes with a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of the technique. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Mass Spec Rev.
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- David J Harvey
- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Target Discovery Institute, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, United Kingdom
- Centre for Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Life Sciences Building 85, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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Bansal P, Yatsyna V, AbiKhodr AH, Warnke S, Ben Faleh A, Yalovenko N, Wysocki VH, Rizzo TR. Using SLIM-Based IMS-IMS Together with Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy for Glycan Analysis. Anal Chem 2020; 92:9079-9085. [PMID: 32456419 PMCID: PMC7349563 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The isomeric heterogeneity of glycans poses a great challenge for their analysis. While combining ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) with tandem mass spectrometry is a powerful means for identifying and characterizing glycans, it has difficulty distinguishing the subtlest differences between isomers. Cryogenic infrared spectroscopy provides an additional dimension for glycan identification that is extremely sensitive to their structure. Our approach to glycan analysis combines ultrahigh-resolution IMS-IMS using structures for lossless ion manipulation (SLIM) with cryogenic infrared spectroscopy. We present here the design of a SLIM board containing a series of on-board traps in which we perform collision-induced dissociation (CID) at pressures in the millibar range. We characterize the on-board CID process by comparing the fragments generated from a pentapeptide to those obtained on a commercial tandem mass spectrometer. We then apply our new technique to study the mobility and vibrational spectra of CID fragments from two human milk oligosaccharides. Comparison of both the fragment drift times and IR spectra with those of suitable reference compounds allows us to identify their specific isomeric form, including the anomericity of the glycosidic linkage, demonstrating the power of this tool for glycan analysis.
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- Priyanka Bansal
- Laboratoire
de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department
of Physics, University of Gothenburg, 412 96 Gotheburg, Sweden
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Cao WQ, Liu MQ, Kong SY, Wu MX, Huang ZZ, Yang PY. Novel methods in glycomics: a 2019 update. Expert Rev Proteomics 2020; 17:11-25. [PMID: 31914820 DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2020.1708199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Introduction: Glycomics, which aims to define the glycome of a biological system to better assess the biological attributes of the glycans, has attracted increasing interest. However, the complexity and diversity of glycans present challenging barriers to glycome definition. Technological advances are major drivers in glycomics.Areas covered: This review summarizes the main methods and emphasizes the most recent advances in mass spectrometry-based methods regarding glycomics following the general workflow in glycomic analysis.Expert opinion: Recent mass spectrometry-based technological advances have significantly lowered the barriers in glycomics. The field of glycomics is moving toward both generic and precise analysis.
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- Wei-Qian Cao
- Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Glycoconjugates Research, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Glycoconjugates Research, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Abrahams JL, Taherzadeh G, Jarvas G, Guttman A, Zhou Y, Campbell MP. Recent advances in glycoinformatic platforms for glycomics and glycoproteomics. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2019; 62:56-69. [PMID: 31874386 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2019.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Protein glycosylation is the most complex and prevalent post-translation modification in terms of the number of proteins modified and the diversity generated. To understand the functional roles of glycoproteins it is important to gain an insight into the repertoire of oligosaccharides present. The comparison and relative quantitation of glycoforms combined with site-specific identification and occupancy are necessary steps in this direction. Computational platforms have continued to mature assisting researchers with the interpretation of such glycomics and glycoproteomics data sets, but frequently support dedicated workflows and users rely on the manual interpretation of data to gain insights into the glycoproteome. The growth of site-specific knowledge has also led to the implementation of machine-learning algorithms to predict glycosylation which is now being integrated into glycoproteomics pipelines. This short review describes commercial and open-access databases and software with an emphasis on those that are actively maintained and designed to support current analytical workflows.
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- Jodie L Abrahams
- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
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- School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
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- Translational Glycomics Research Group, Research Institute of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary; Horváth Csaba Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences, Research Centre for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Translational Glycomics Research Group, Research Institute of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary; Horváth Csaba Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences, Research Centre for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary; SCIEX, Brea, CA, USA
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- School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
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Sastre Toraño J, Gagarinov IA, Vos GM, Broszeit F, Srivastava AD, Palmer M, Langridge JI, Aizpurua‐Olaizola O, Somovilla VJ, Boons G. Ion‐Mobility Spectrometry Can Assign Exact Fucosyl Positions in Glycans and Prevent Misinterpretation of Mass‐Spectrometry Data After Gas‐Phase Rearrangement. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201909623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Javier Sastre Toraño
- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Waters Corporation Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road SK9 4AX Wilmslow UK
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of ChemistryUniversity of Georgia 315 Riverbend Road Athens GA 30602 USA
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Struwe WB, Harvey DJ. Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry of Glycoconjugates. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 2084:203-219. [PMID: 31729663 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0030-6_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
Abstract
Glycoconjugates are diverse biomolecules that are dynamically assembled to regulate and fine-tune numerous cellular processes. Their biosynthesis is nontemplate-driven, achieved stepwise in discrete locations within the cell, giving rise to a range of complex branched structures that pose a significant challenge in structural biology. Mass spectrometry is the leading method for analysis of glycoconjugates, and the addition of ion mobility has proven valuable for improving structural assignments of individual glycans in complex biological mixtures. In this chapter, we briefly discuss recent applications of IM for glycomics and describe how to acquire, interpret, and analyze IM-MS data for the analysis of glycans.
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- Weston B Struwe
- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Sastre Toraño J, Gagarinov IA, Vos GM, Broszeit F, Srivastava AD, Palmer M, Langridge JI, Aizpurua-Olaizola O, Somovilla VJ, Boons GJ. Ion-Mobility Spectrometry Can Assign Exact Fucosyl Positions in Glycans and Prevent Misinterpretation of Mass-Spectrometry Data After Gas-Phase Rearrangement. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:17616-17620. [PMID: 31544998 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The fucosylation of glycans leads to diverse structures and is associated with many biological and disease processes. The exact determination of fucoside positions by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is complicated because rearrangements in the gas phase lead to erroneous structural assignments. Here, we demonstrate that the combined use of ion-mobility MS and well-defined synthetic glycan standards can prevent misinterpretation of MS/MS spectra and incorrect structural assignments of fucosylated glycans. We show that fucosyl residues do not migrate to hydroxyl groups but to acetamido moieties of N-acetylneuraminic acid as well as N-acetylglucosamine residues and nucleophilic sites of an anomeric tag, yielding specific isomeric fragment ions. This mechanistic insight enables the characterization of unique IMS arrival-time distributions of the isomers which can be used to accurately determine fucosyl positions in glycans.
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- Javier Sastre Toraño
- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Waters Corporation, Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road, SK9 4AX, Wilmslow, UK
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- Waters Corporation, Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road, SK9 4AX, Wilmslow, UK
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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Ropartz D, Fanuel M, Ujma J, Palmer M, Giles K, Rogniaux H. Structure Determination of Large Isomeric Oligosaccharides of Natural Origin through Multipass and Multistage Cyclic Traveling-Wave Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2019; 91:12030-12037. [PMID: 31449397 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Carbohydrate isomers with identical atomic composition cannot be distinguished by mass spectrometry. By separating the ions according to their conformation in the gas phase, ion mobility (IM) coupled to mass spectrometry is an attractive approach to overcome this issue and extend the limits of mass spectrometry in structural glycosciences. Recent technological developments have significantly increased the resolving power of ion mobility separators. One such instrument features a cyclic traveling-wave IM separator integrated in a quadrupole/time-of-flight mass spectrometer. This system allows for multipass ion separations and for pre-, intra-, and post-IM fragmentation. In the present study, we utilize this system to explore a complex mixture of oligoporphyrans derived from the enzymatic digestion of the cell wall of the red alga P. umbilicalis. We are able to deduce their complete structure using IM arrival times and the m/z of specific fragments. This approach was successfully applied for sequencing of oligoporphyrans of up to 1500 Da and included the positioning of the methyl ether and sulfate groups. The structures defined in this study by IM-MS/MS agree with those found in the past but use much more time-consuming analytical approaches. This study also revealed some so far undescribed structures, present at very low abundance. In addition, the results made it possible to compare the abundance of the different isomers released by the enzyme and to draw further conclusions on the specificity of β-porphyranase and more particularly on its accommodation tolerance of anhydro-bridges in subsites. Finally, a separation of two isomers with very similar mobility was obtained after 58 passes around the cIM, with an estimated resolving power of 920 for these triply charged species, confirming the structures attributed to these two isomers.
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- David Ropartz
- INRA , UR1268 Biopolymers Interactions Assemblies, La Géraudière B.P. 71627 , F-44316 Nantes , France
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- INRA , UR1268 Biopolymers Interactions Assemblies, La Géraudière B.P. 71627 , F-44316 Nantes , France
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- Waters Corporation , Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road , Wilmslow SK9 4AX , United Kingdom
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- Waters Corporation , Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road , Wilmslow SK9 4AX , United Kingdom
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- Waters Corporation , Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road , Wilmslow SK9 4AX , United Kingdom
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- INRA , UR1268 Biopolymers Interactions Assemblies, La Géraudière B.P. 71627 , F-44316 Nantes , France
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Gray CJ, Migas LG, Barran PE, Pagel K, Seeberger PH, Eyers CE, Boons GJ, Pohl NLB, Compagnon I, Widmalm G, Flitsch SL. Advancing Solutions to the Carbohydrate Sequencing Challenge. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:14463-14479. [PMID: 31403778 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Carbohydrates possess a variety of distinct features with stereochemistry playing a particularly important role in distinguishing their structure and function. Monosaccharide building blocks are defined by a high density of chiral centers. Additionally, the anomericity and regiochemistry of the glycosidic linkages carry important biological information. Any carbohydrate-sequencing method needs to be precise in determining all aspects of this stereodiversity. Recently, several advances have been made in developing fast and precise analytical techniques that have the potential to address the stereochemical complexity of carbohydrates. This perspective seeks to provide an overview of some of these emerging techniques, focusing on those that are based on NMR and MS-hybridized technologies including ion mobility spectrometry and IR spectroscopy.
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- Christopher J Gray
- School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology , The University of Manchester , 131 Princess Street , Manchester M1 7DN , U.K
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- School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology , The University of Manchester , 131 Princess Street , Manchester M1 7DN , U.K
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- School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology , The University of Manchester , 131 Princess Street , Manchester M1 7DN , U.K
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry , Freie Universität Berlin , Takustraße 3 , 14195 Berlin , Germany
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- Biomolecular Systems Department , Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces , Am Muehlenberg 1 , 14476 Potsdam , Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology , University of Liverpool , Crown Street , Liverpool L69 7ZB , U.K
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center , University of Georgia , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana 47405 , United States
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- Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 Université Lyon 1-CNRS , Université de Lyon , 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex , France.,Institut Universitaire de France IUF , 103 Blvd St Michel , 75005 Paris , France
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory , Stockholm University , S-106 91 Stockholm , Sweden
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- School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology , The University of Manchester , 131 Princess Street , Manchester M1 7DN , U.K
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Tjondro HC, Loke I, Chatterjee S, Thaysen-Andersen M. Human protein paucimannosylation: cues from the eukaryotic kingdoms. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2019; 94:2068-2100. [PMID: 31410980 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Paucimannosidic proteins (PMPs) are bioactive glycoproteins carrying truncated α- or β-mannosyl-terminating asparagine (N)-linked glycans widely reported across the eukaryotic domain. Our understanding of human PMPs remains limited, despite findings documenting their existence and association with human disease glycobiology. This review comprehensively surveys the structures, biosynthetic routes and functions of PMPs across the eukaryotic kingdoms with the aim of synthesising an improved understanding on the role of protein paucimannosylation in human health and diseases. Convincing biochemical, glycoanalytical and biological data detail a vast structural heterogeneity and fascinating tissue- and subcellular-specific expression of PMPs within invertebrates and plants, often comprising multi-α1,3/6-fucosylation and β1,2-xylosylation amongst other glycan modifications and non-glycan substitutions e.g. O-methylation. Vertebrates and protists express less-heterogeneous PMPs typically only comprising variable core fucosylation of bi- and trimannosylchitobiose core glycans. In particular, the Manα1,6Manβ1,4GlcNAc(α1,6Fuc)β1,4GlcNAcβAsn glycan (M2F) decorates various human neutrophil proteins reportedly displaying bioactivity and structural integrity demonstrating that they are not degradation products. Less-truncated paucimannosidic glycans (e.g. M3F) are characteristic glycosylation features of proteins expressed by human cancer and stem cells. Concertedly, these observations suggest the involvement of human PMPs in processes related to innate immunity, tumorigenesis and cellular differentiation. The absence of human PMPs in diverse bodily fluids studied under many (patho)physiological conditions suggests extravascular residence and points to localised functions of PMPs in peripheral tissues. Absence of PMPs in Fungi indicates that paucimannosylation is common, but not universally conserved, in eukaryotes. Relative to human PMPs, the expression of PMPs in plants, invertebrates and protists is more tissue-wide and constitutive yet, similar to their human counterparts, PMP expression remains regulated by the physiology of the producing organism and PMPs evidently serve essential functions in development, cell-cell communication and host-pathogen/symbiont interactions. In most PMP-producing organisms, including humans, the N-acetyl-β-hexosaminidase isoenzymes and linkage-specific α-mannosidases are glycoside hydrolases critical for generating PMPs via N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GnT-I)-dependent and GnT-I-independent truncation pathways. However, the identity and structure of many species-specific PMPs in eukaryotes, their biosynthetic routes, strong tissue- and development-specific expression, and diverse functions are still elusive. Deep exploration of these PMP features involving, for example, the characterisation of endogenous PMP-recognising lectins across a variety of healthy and N-acetyl-β-hexosaminidase-deficient human tissue types and identification of microbial adhesins reactive to human PMPs, are amongst the many tasks required for enhanced insight into the glycobiology of human PMPs. In conclusion, the literature supports the notion that PMPs are significant, yet still heavily under-studied biomolecules in human glycobiology that serve essential functions and create structural heterogeneity not dissimilar to other human N-glycoprotein types. Human PMPs should therefore be recognised as bioactive glycoproteins that are distinctly different from the canonical N-glycoprotein classes and which warrant a more dedicated focus in glycobiological research.
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- Harry C Tjondro
- Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia.,Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
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Ben Faleh A, Warnke S, Rizzo TR. Combining Ultrahigh-Resolution Ion-Mobility Spectrometry with Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Glycan Mixtures. Anal Chem 2019; 91:4876-4882. [PMID: 30835102 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The isomeric complexity of glycans make their analysis by traditional techniques particularly challenging. While the recent combination of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) with cryogenic IR spectroscopy has demonstrated promise as a new technique for glycan analysis, this approach has been limited by the modest resolution of the ion mobility stage. In this work we report results from a newly developed instrument that combines ultrahigh-resolution IMS with cryogenic IR spectroscopy for glycan analysis. This apparatus makes use of the recent development in traveling-wave IMS called structures for lossless ion manipulation. The IMS stage allows the selection of glycan isomers that differ in collisional cross section by as little as 0.2% before injecting them into a cryogenic ion trap for IR spectral analysis. We compare our results to those using drift-tube IMS and highlight the advantages of the substantial increase in resolution. Application of this approach to glycan mixtures demonstrates our ability to isolate individual components, measure a cryogenic IR spectrum, and identify them using a spectroscopic database.
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- Ahmed Ben Faleh
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6 , CH-1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6 , CH-1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6 , CH-1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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Schnell A, Willms JA, Nozinovic S, Engeser M. Mechanistic studies of an L-proline-catalyzed pyridazine formation involving a Diels-Alder reaction with inverse electron demand. Beilstein J Org Chem 2019; 15:30-43. [PMID: 30680036 PMCID: PMC6334817 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.15.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The mechanism of an L-proline-catalyzed pyridazine formation from acetone and aryl-substituted tetrazines via a Diels-Alder reaction with inverse electron demand has been studied with NMR and with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. A catalytic cycle with three intermediates has been proposed. An enamine derived from L-proline and acetone acts as an electron-rich dienophile in a [4 + 2] cycloaddition with the electron-poor tetrazine forming a tetraazabicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene derivative which then eliminates N2 in a retro-Diels-Alder reaction to yield a 4,5-dihydropyridazine species. The reaction was studied in three variants: unmodified, with a charge-tagged substrate, and with a charge-tagged proline catalyst. The charge-tagging technique strongly increases the ESI response of the respective species and therefore enables to capture otherwise undetected reaction components. With the first two reaction variants, only small intensities of intermediates were found, but the temporal progress of reactants and products could be monitored very well. In experiments with the charge-tagged L-proline-derived catalyst, all three intermediates of the proposed catalytic cycle were detected and characterized by collision-induced dissociation (CID) experiments. Some of the CID pathways of intermediates mimic single steps of the proposed catalytic cycle in the gas phase. Thus, the charge-tagged catalyst proved one more time its superior effectiveness for the detection and study of reactive intermediates at low concentrations.
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- Anne Schnell
- University of Bonn, Kekulé-Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 1, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
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- University of Bonn, Kekulé-Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 1, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
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- University of Bonn, Kekulé-Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 1, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
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- University of Bonn, Kekulé-Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 1, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
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Harvey DJ, Struwe WB. Structural Studies of Fucosylated N-Glycans by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry and Collision-Induced Fragmentation of Negative Ions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2018; 29:1179-1193. [PMID: 29790113 PMCID: PMC6003995 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-018-1950-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Revised: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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There is considerable potential for the use of ion mobility mass spectrometry in structural glycobiology due in large part to the gas-phase separation attributes not typically observed by orthogonal methods. Here, we evaluate the capability of traveling wave ion mobility combined with negative ion collision-induced dissociation to provide structural information on N-linked glycans containing multiple fucose residues forming the Lewisx and Lewisy epitopes. These epitopes are involved in processes such as cell-cell recognition and are important as cancer biomarkers. Specific information that could be obtained from the intact N-glycans by negative ion CID included the general topology of the glycan such as the presence or absence of a bisecting GlcNAc residue and the branching pattern of the triantennary glycans. Information on the location of the fucose residues was also readily obtainable from ions specific to each antenna. Some isobaric fragment ions produced prior to ion mobility could subsequently be separated and, in some cases, provided additional valuable structural information that was missing from the CID spectra alone. Graphical abstract ᅟ.
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- David J Harvey
- Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK.
- Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK.
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- Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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Klein C, Cologna SM, Kurulugama RT, Blank PS, Darland E, Mordehai A, Backlund PS, Yergey AL. Cyclodextrin and malto-dextrose collision cross sections determined in a drift tube ion mobility mass spectrometer using nitrogen bath gas. Analyst 2018; 143:4147-4154. [DOI: 10.1039/c8an00646f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Ion mobility measurements indicate unique distributions for cyclodextrin ions.
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NIH
- Bethesda
- USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NIH
- Bethesda
- USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NIH
- Bethesda
- USA
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