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Nguan HS, Chen JL, Ni CK. Collision-Induced Dissociation of Fucose and Identification of Anomericity. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:3812-3820. [PMID: 38690855 PMCID: PMC11103703 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c00640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
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Structural determination of carbohydrates using mass spectrometry remains challenging, particularly, the differentiation of anomeric configurations. In this work, we studied the collision-induced dissociation (CID) mechanisms of sodiated α- and β-l-fucose using an experimental method and quantum chemistry calculations. The calculations show that α-l-fucose is more likely to undergo dehydration due to the fact that O1 and O2 are on the same side of the sugar ring. In contrast, β-l-fucose is more prone to the ring-opening reaction because more OH groups are on the same side of the sugar ring as O1. These differences suggest a higher preference for the dehydration reaction in sodiated α-l-fucose but a lower preference for ring-opening compared to that of β-l-fucose. The calculation results, which are used to assign the CID mass spectra of α- and β-l-fucose separated by high-performance liquid chromatography, are supported by the fucose produced from the CID of disaccharides Fuc-β-(1 → 3)-GlcNAc and Fuc-α-(1 → 4)-GlcNAc. This study demonstrates that the correlation of cis- and trans-configurations of O1 and O2 to the relative branching ratios of dehydration and cross-ring dissociation in CID, observed in aldohexose and ketohexose in the pyranose form, can be extended to deoxyhexoses for anomericity determination.
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- Hock-Seng Nguan
- Institute
of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia
Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute
of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia
Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute
of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia
Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Department
of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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Cantrelle FX, Boll E, Sinnaeve D. Making 1H- 1H Couplings More Accessible and Accurate with Selective 2DJ NMR Experiments Aided by 13C Satellites. Anal Chem 2024; 96:7056-7064. [PMID: 38666447 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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1H-1H coupling constants are one of the primary sources of information for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structural analysis. Several selective 2DJ experiments have been proposed that allow for their individual measurement at pure shift resolution. However, all of these experiments fail in the not uncommon case when coupled protons have very close chemical shifts. First, the coupling between protons with overlapping multiplets is inaccessible due to the inability of a frequency-selective pulse to invert just one of them. Second, the strong coupling condition affects the accuracy of coupling measurements involving third spins. These shortcomings impose a limit on the effectiveness of state-of-the-art experiments, such as G-SERF or PSYCHEDELIC. Here, we introduce two new and complementary selective 2DJ experiments that we coin SERFBIRD and SATASERF. These experiments overcome the aforementioned issues by utilizing the 13C satellite signals at natural isotope abundance, which resolves the chemical shift degeneracy. We demonstrate the utility of these experiments on the tetrasaccharide stachyose and the challenging case of norcamphor, for the latter achieving measurement of all JHH couplings, while only a few were accessible with PSYCHEDELIC. The new experiments are applicable to any organic compound and will prove valuable for configurational and conformational analyses.
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- François-Xavier Cantrelle
- CNRS EMR 9002 ─ Integrative Structural Biology, F-59000 Lille, France
- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille UMR 1167 ─ RID-AGE ─ Risk Factors and Molecular Determinants of Aging-Related Diseases, F-59000 Lille, France
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- CNRS EMR 9002 ─ Integrative Structural Biology, F-59000 Lille, France
- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille UMR 1167 ─ RID-AGE ─ Risk Factors and Molecular Determinants of Aging-Related Diseases, F-59000 Lille, France
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- CNRS EMR 9002 ─ Integrative Structural Biology, F-59000 Lille, France
- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille UMR 1167 ─ RID-AGE ─ Risk Factors and Molecular Determinants of Aging-Related Diseases, F-59000 Lille, France
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Li H, Peralta AG, Schoffelen S, Hansen AH, Arnsdorf J, Schinn SM, Skidmore J, Choudhury B, Paulchakrabarti M, Voldborg BG, Chiang AW, Lewis NE. LeGenD: determining N-glycoprofiles using an explainable AI-leveraged model with lectin profiling. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.27.587044. [PMID: 38585977 PMCID: PMC10996628 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.27.587044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
Abstract
Glycosylation affects many vital functions of organisms. Therefore, its surveillance is critical from basic science to biotechnology, including biopharmaceutical development and clinical diagnostics. However, conventional glycan structure analysis faces challenges with throughput and cost. Lectins offer an alternative approach for analyzing glycans, but they only provide glycan epitopes and not full glycan structure information. To overcome these limitations, we developed LeGenD, a lectin and AI-based approach to predict N-glycan structures and determine their relative abundance in purified proteins based on lectin-binding patterns. We trained the LeGenD model using 309 glycoprofiles from 10 recombinant proteins, produced in 30 glycoengineered CHO cell lines. Our approach accurately reconstructed experimentally-measured N-glycoprofiles of bovine Fetuin B and IgG from human sera. Explanatory AI analysis with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) helped identify the critical lectins for glycoprofile predictions. Our LeGenD approach thus presents an alternative approach for N-glycan analysis.
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- Haining Li
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- National Biologics Facility Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Building 220, Kemitorvet, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark
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- National Biologics Facility Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Building 220, Kemitorvet, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark
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- National Biologics Facility Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Building 220, Kemitorvet, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- National Biologics Facility Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Building 220, Kemitorvet, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Xie Y, Liu X, Zhao C, Chen S, Wang S, Lin Z, Robison FM, George BM, Flynn RA, Lebrilla CB, Garcia BA. Development and application of GlycanDIA workflow for glycomic analysis. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.12.584702. [PMID: 38559279 PMCID: PMC10980037 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.12.584702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
Glycans modify protein, lipid, and even RNA molecules to form the regulatory outer coat on cells called the glycocalyx. The changes in glycosylation have been linked to the initiation and progression of many diseases. Thus, while the significance of glycosylation is well established, a lack of accessible methods to characterize glycans has hindered the ability to understand their biological functions. Mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods have generally been at the core of most glycan profiling efforts; however, modern data-independent acquisition (DIA), which could increase sensitivity and simplify workflows, has not been benchmarked for analyzing glycans. Herein, we developed a DIA-based glycomic workflow, termed GlycanDIA, to identify and quantify glycans with high sensitivity and accuracy. The GlycanDIA workflow combined higher energy collisional dissociation (HCD)-MS/MS and staggered windows for glycomic analysis, which facilitates the sensitivity in identification and the accuracy in quantification compared to conventional data-dependent acquisition (DDA)-based glycomics. To facilitate its use, we also developed a generic search engine, GlycanDIA Finder, incorporating an iterative decoy searching for confident glycan identification and quantification from DIA data. The results showed that GlycanDIA can distinguish glycan composition and isomers from N-glycans, O-glycans, and human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), while it also reveals information on low-abundant modified glycans. With the improved sensitivity, we performed experiments to profile N-glycans from RNA samples, which have been underrepresented due to their low abundance. Using this integrative workflow to unravel the N-glycan profile in cellular and tissue glycoRNA samples, we found that RNA-glycans have specific forms as compared to protein-glycans and are also tissue-specific differences, suggesting distinct functions in biological processes. Overall, GlycanDIA can provide comprehensive information for glycan identification and quantification, enabling researchers to obtain in-depth and refined details on the biological roles of glycosylation.
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- Yixuan Xie
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Kokubu R, Ohno S, Manabe N, Yamaguchi Y. Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Docking of MUC1 O-Glycopeptide. Methods Mol Biol 2024; 2763:373-379. [PMID: 38347427 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3670-1_32] [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: 02/15/2024]
Abstract
Advances in computer performance and computational simulations allow increasing sophistication in applications in biological systems. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are especially suitable for studying conformation, dynamics, and interaction of flexible biomolecules such as free glycans and glycopeptides. Computer simulations are best performed when the scope and limitations in performance have been thoroughly assessed. Proper outputs are obtained only under suitable parameter settings, and results need to be properly validated. In this chapter, we will introduce an example of molecular dynamics simulations of MUC1 O-glycopeptide and its docking to anti-MUC1 antibody Fv fragment.
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- Ryoka Kokubu
- Division of Structural Glycobiology, Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and Glycobiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan
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- Division of Structural Glycobiology, Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and Glycobiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan
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- Division of Structural Glycobiology, Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and Glycobiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan
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- Division of Structural Glycobiology, Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and Glycobiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan.
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Fittolani G, Tyrikos-Ergas T, Poveda A, Yu Y, Yadav N, Seeberger PH, Jiménez-Barbero J, Delbianco M. Synthesis of a glycan hairpin. Nat Chem 2023; 15:1461-1469. [PMID: 37400598 PMCID: PMC10533408 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01255-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023]
Abstract
The primary sequence of a biopolymer encodes the essential information for folding, permitting to carry out sophisticated functions. Inspired by natural biopolymers, peptide and nucleic acid sequences have been designed to adopt particular three-dimensional (3D) shapes and programmed to exert specific functions. In contrast, synthetic glycans capable of autonomously folding into defined 3D conformations have so far not been explored owing to their structural complexity and lack of design rules. Here we generate a glycan that adopts a stable secondary structure not present in nature, a glycan hairpin, by combining natural glycan motifs, stabilized by a non-conventional hydrogen bond and hydrophobic interactions. Automated glycan assembly enabled rapid access to synthetic analogues, including site-specific 13C-labelled ones, for nuclear magnetic resonance conformational analysis. Long-range inter-residue nuclear Overhauser effects unequivocally confirmed the folded conformation of the synthetic glycan hairpin. The capacity to control the 3D shape across the pool of available monosaccharides has the potential to afford more foldamer scaffolds with programmable properties and functions.
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- Giulio Fittolani
- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- CICbioGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance, Derio, Spain
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- CICbioGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance, Derio, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
- Department of Organic Chemistry II, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.
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Nguan HS, Tsai ST, Liew CY, Reddy NS, Hung SC, Ni CK. The collision-induced dissociation mechanism of sodiated Hex-HexNAc disaccharides. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:22179-22194. [PMID: 37565323 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02530f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
Abstract
Determining carbohydrate structures, such as their compositions, linkage positions, and in particular the anomers and stereoisomers, is a great challenge. Isomers of different anomers or stereoisomers have the same sequences of chemical bonds, but have different orientations of some chemical bonds which are difficult to be distinguished by mass spectrometry. Collision-induced dissociation (CID) tandem mass spectroscopy (MS/MS) is a widely used technique for characterizing carbohydrate structures. Understanding the carbohydrate dissociation mechanism is important for obtaining the structural information from MS/MS. In this work, we studied the CID mechanism of galactose-N-acetylgalactosamine (Gal-GalNAc) and glucose-N-acetylglucosamine (Glc-GlcNAc) disaccharides with 1→3 and 1→4 linkages. For Gal-GalNAc disaccharides, the CID mass spectra of sodium ion adducts show significant difference between the α- and β-anomers of GalNAc at the reducing end, while no difference in the CID mass spectra between two anomers of Glc-GlcNAc disaccharides was found. Quantum chemistry calculations show that for Gal-GalNAc disaccharides, the difference of the dissociation barriers between dehydration and glycosidic bond cleavage is significantly small in the β-anomer compared to that in the α-anomer; while these differences are similar between the α- and β-anomers of Glc-GlcNAc disaccharides. These differences can be attributed to the different orientations of hydroxyl and N-acetyl groups located at GalNAc and GlcNAc. The calculation results are consistent with the CID spectra of isotope labelled disaccharides. Our study provides an insight into the CID of 1→3 and 1→4 linked Gal-GalNAc and Glc-GlcNAc disaccharides. This information is useful for determining the anomeric configurations of GalNAc in oligosaccharides.
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- Hock-Seng Nguan
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P. O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P. O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P. O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
- International Graduate Program of Molecular Science and Technology, National Taiwan University (NTU-MST), Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Molecular Science and Technology (MST), Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P. O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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Wei J, Papanastasiou D, Kosmopoulou M, Smyrnakis A, Hong P, Tursumamat N, Klein JA, Xia C, Tang Y, Zaia J, Costello CE, Lin C. De novo glycan sequencing by electronic excitation dissociation MS 2-guided MS 3 analysis on an Omnitrap-Orbitrap hybrid instrument. Chem Sci 2023; 14:6695-6704. [PMID: 37350811 PMCID: PMC10284134 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc00870c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
Abstract
Comprehensive de novo glycan sequencing remains an elusive goal due to the structural diversity and complexity of glycans. Present strategies employing collision-induced dissociation (CID) and higher energy collisional dissociation (HCD)-based multi-stage tandem mass spectrometry (MSn) or MS/MS combined with sequential exoglycosidase digestions are inherently low-throughput and difficult to automate. Compared to CID and HCD, electron transfer dissociation (ETD) and electron capture dissociation (ECD) each generate more cross-ring cleavages informative about linkage positions, but electronic excitation dissociation (EED) exceeds the information content of all other methods and is also applicable to analysis of singly charged precursors. Although EED can provide extensive glycan structural information in a single stage of MS/MS, its performance has largely been limited to FTICR MS, and thus it has not been widely adopted by the glycoscience research community. Here, the effective performance of EED MS/MS was demonstrated on a hybrid Orbitrap-Omnitrap QE-HF instrument, with high sensitivity, fragmentation efficiency, and analysis speed. In addition, a novel EED MS2-guided MS3 approach was developed for detailed glycan structural analysis. Automated topology reconstruction from MS2 and MS3 spectra could be achieved with a modified GlycoDeNovo software. We showed that the topology and linkage configurations of the Man9GlcNAc2 glycan can be accurately determined from first principles based on one EED MS2 and two CID-EED MS3 analyses, without reliance on biological knowledge, a structure database or a spectral library. The presented approach holds great promise for autonomous, comprehensive and de novo glycan sequencing.
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- Juan Wei
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 China
- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston MA 02118 USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454 USA
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 China
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- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston MA 02118 USA
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- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston MA 02118 USA
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- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston MA 02118 USA
- Department of Chemistry, Boston University Boston MA 02215 USA
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- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston MA 02118 USA
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- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston MA 02118 USA
- Department of Chemistry, Boston University Boston MA 02215 USA
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- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston MA 02118 USA
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Hatvany JB, Gallagher ES. Hydrogen/deuterium exchange for the analysis of carbohydrates. Carbohydr Res 2023; 530:108859. [PMID: 37290371 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2023.108859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Carbohydrates and glycans are integral to many biological processes, including cell-cell recognition and energy storage. However, carbohydrates are often difficult to analyze due to the high degree of isomerism present. One method being developed to distinguish these isomeric species is hydrogen/deuterium exchange-mass spectrometry (HDX-MS). In HDX-MS, carbohydrates are exposed to a deuterated reagent and the functional groups with labile hydrogen atoms, including hydroxyls and amides, exchange with the 1 amu heavier isotope, deuterium. These labels can then be detected by MS, which monitors the mass increase with the addition of D-labels. The observed rate of exchange is dependent on the exchanging functional group, the accessibility of the exchanging functional group, and the presence of hydrogen bonds. Herein, we discuss how HDX has been applied in the solution-phase, gas-phase, and during MS ionization to label carbohydrates and glycans. Additionally, we compare differences in the conformations that are labeled, the labeling timeframes, and applications of each of these methods. Finally, we comment on future opportunities for development and use of HDX-MS to analyze glycans and glycoconjugates.
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- Jacob B Hatvany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, TX, 76798, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, TX, 76798, USA.
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Rogals M, Eletsky A, Huang C, Morris LC, Moremen KW, Prestegard JH. Glycan Conformation in the Heavily Glycosylated Protein, CEACAM1. ACS Chem Biol 2022; 17:3527-3534. [PMID: 36417668 PMCID: PMC9764281 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Glycans attached to glycoproteins can contribute to stability, mediate interactions with other proteins, and initiate signal transduction. Glycan conformation, which is critical to these processes, is highly variable and often depicted as sampling a multitude of conformers. These conformers can be generated by molecular dynamics simulations, and more inclusively by accelerated molecular dynamics, as well as other extended sampling methods. However, experimental assessments of the contribution that various conformers make to a native ensemble are rare. Here, we use long-range pseudo-contact shifts (PCSs) of NMR resonances from an isotopically labeled glycoprotein to identify preferred conformations of its glycans. The N-terminal domain from human Carcinoembryonic Antigen Cell Adhesion Molecule 1, hCEACAM1-Ig1, was used as the model glycoprotein in this study. It has been engineered to include a lanthanide-ion-binding loop that generates PCSs, as well as a homogeneous set of three 13C-labeled N-glycans. Analysis of the PCSs indicates that preferred glycan conformers have extensive contacts with the protein surface. Factors leading to this preference appear to include interactions between N-acetyl methyls of GlcNAc residues and hydrophobic surface pockets on the protein surface.
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Nguan HS, Ni CK. Collision-Induced Dissociation of α-Isomaltose and α-Maltose. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:8799-8808. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hock-Seng Nguan
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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Liew CY, Hsu HC, Nguan HS, Huang YC, Zhong YQ, Hung SC, Ni CK. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Memories of Carbohydrate Fragments in Collision-Induced Dissociation. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:1891-1903. [PMID: 36111786 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Collision-induced dissociation (CID) tandem mass spectrometry is commonly used for carbohydrate structural determinations. In the CID tandem mass spectrometry approach, carbohydrates are dissociated into fragments, and this is followed by the structural identification of fragments through subsequent CID. The success of the structural analysis depends on the structural correlation of fragments before and after dissociation, that is, structural memory of fragments. Fragments that completely lose the memory of their original structures cannot be used for structural analysis. By contrast, fragments with extremely strong correlations between the structures before and after fragmentation retain the information on their original structures as well as have memories of their precursors' entire structures. The CID spectra of these fragments depend on their own structures and on the remaining parts of the precursor structures, making structural analysis impractical. For effective structural analysis, the fragments produced from a precursor must have good structural memory, meaning that the structures of these fragments retain their original structure, and they must not be strongly affected by the remaining parts of the precursors. In this study, we found that most of the carbohydrate fragments produced by low-energy CID have good memory in terms of linkage position and anomericity. Fragments with ugly memory, where fragment structures change with the remaining parts of the precursors, can be attributed to C ion formation in a linear form. Fragments with ugly memory can be changed to have good memory by preventing linear C ion generation by using an alternative CID sequence, or the fragments of ugly memory can become useful in structural analysis when the contribution of linear C ions in fragmentation patterns is understood.
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- Chia Yen Liew
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- International Graduate Program of Molecular Science and Technology, National Taiwan University (NTU-MST), Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) of Molecular Science and Technology (MST), Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) of Molecular Science and Technology (MST), Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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Theillet FX, Luchinat E. In-cell NMR: Why and how? PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 132-133:1-112. [PMID: 36496255 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2022.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Revised: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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NMR spectroscopy has been applied to cells and tissues analysis since its beginnings, as early as 1950. We have attempted to gather here in a didactic fashion the broad diversity of data and ideas that emerged from NMR investigations on living cells. Covering a large proportion of the periodic table, NMR spectroscopy permits scrutiny of a great variety of atomic nuclei in all living organisms non-invasively. It has thus provided quantitative information on cellular atoms and their chemical environment, dynamics, or interactions. We will show that NMR studies have generated valuable knowledge on a vast array of cellular molecules and events, from water, salts, metabolites, cell walls, proteins, nucleic acids, drugs and drug targets, to pH, redox equilibria and chemical reactions. The characterization of such a multitude of objects at the atomic scale has thus shaped our mental representation of cellular life at multiple levels, together with major techniques like mass-spectrometry or microscopies. NMR studies on cells has accompanied the developments of MRI and metabolomics, and various subfields have flourished, coined with appealing names: fluxomics, foodomics, MRI and MRS (i.e. imaging and localized spectroscopy of living tissues, respectively), whole-cell NMR, on-cell ligand-based NMR, systems NMR, cellular structural biology, in-cell NMR… All these have not grown separately, but rather by reinforcing each other like a braided trunk. Hence, we try here to provide an analytical account of a large ensemble of intricately linked approaches, whose integration has been and will be key to their success. We present extensive overviews, firstly on the various types of information provided by NMR in a cellular environment (the "why", oriented towards a broad readership), and secondly on the employed NMR techniques and setups (the "how", where we discuss the past, current and future methods). Each subsection is constructed as a historical anthology, showing how the intrinsic properties of NMR spectroscopy and its developments structured the accessible knowledge on cellular phenomena. Using this systematic approach, we sought i) to make this review accessible to the broadest audience and ii) to highlight some early techniques that may find renewed interest. Finally, we present a brief discussion on what may be potential and desirable developments in the context of integrative studies in biology.
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- Francois-Xavier Theillet
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Piazza Goidanich 60, 47521 Cesena, Italy; CERM - Magnetic Resonance Center, and Neurofarba Department, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Oganesyan I, Hajduk J, Harrison JA, Marchand A, Czar MF, Zenobi R. Exploring Gas-Phase MS Methodologies for Structural Elucidation of Branched N-Glycan Isomers. Anal Chem 2022; 94:10531-10539. [PMID: 35833795 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Structural isomers of N-glycans that are identical in mass and atomic composition provide a great challenge to conventional mass spectrometry (MS). This study employs additional dimensions of structural elucidation including ion mobility (IM) spectroscopy coupled to hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) and electron capture dissociation (ECD) to characterize three main A2 N-glycans and their conformers. A series of IM-MS experiments were able to separate the low abundance N-glycans and their linkage-based isomers (α1-3 and α1-6 for A2G1). HDX-IM-MS data indicated the presence of multiple gas-phase structures for each N-glycan including the isomers of A2G1. Identification of A2G1 isomers by their collision cross section was complicated due to the preferential collapse of sugars in the gas phase, but it was possible by further ECD fragmentation. The cyclic IM-ECD approach was capable of assigning and identifying each isomer to its IM peak. Two unique cross-ring fragments were identified for each isomer: m/z = 624.21 for α1-6 and m/z = 462.16 for α1-3. Based on these key fragments, the first IM peak, indicating a more compact conformation, was assigned to α1-3 and the second IM peak, a more extended conformer, was assigned to α1-6.
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- Irina Oganesyan
- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Rao RM, Dauchez M, Baud S. How molecular modelling can better broaden the understanding of glycosylations. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2022; 75:102393. [PMID: 35679802 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2022.102393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Glycosylations are among the most ubiquitous post-translational modifications (PTMs) in proteins, and the effects of their perturbations are seen in various diseases such as cancers, diabetes and arthritis to name a few. Yet they remain one of the most enigmatic aspects of protein structure and function. On the other hand, molecular modelling techniques have been rapidly bridging this knowledge gap since the last decade. In this review, we discuss how these techniques have proven to be indispensable for a better understanding of the role of glycosylations in glycoprotein structure and function.
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- Rajas M Rao
- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, CNRS UMR 7369, MEDyC, Reims, 51687, France
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- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, CNRS UMR 7369, MEDyC, Reims, 51687, France.
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- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, CNRS UMR 7369, MEDyC, Reims, 51687, France
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Steinke N, Vidal‐Melgosa S, Schultz‐Johansen M, Hehemann J. Biocatalytic quantification of α‐glucan in marine particulate organic matter. Microbiologyopen 2022; 11:e1289. [PMID: 35765187 PMCID: PMC9134812 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.1289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Marine algae drive the marine carbon cycle, converting carbon dioxide into organic material. A major component of this produced biomass is a variety of glycans. Marine α‐glucans include a range of storage glycans from red and green algae, bacteria, fungi, and animals. Although these compounds are likely to account for a high amount of the carbon stored in the oceans they have not been quantified in marine samples so far. Here we present a method to extract and quantify α‐glucans (and compare it with the β‐glucan laminarin) in particulate organic matter from algal cultures and environmental samples using sequential physicochemical extraction and enzymes as α‐glucan‐specific probes. This enzymatic assay is more specific and less susceptible to side reactions than chemical hydrolysis. Using HPAEC‐PAD to detect the hydrolysis products allows for a glycan quantification in particulate marine samples down to a concentration of ≈2 µg/L. We measured glucans in three cultured microalgae as well as in marine particulate organic matter from the North Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean. While the β‐glucan laminarin from diatoms and brown algae is an essential component of marine carbon turnover, our results further indicate the significant contribution of starch‐like α‐glucans to marine particulate organic matter. Henceforth, the combination of glycan‐linkage‐specific enzymes and chromatographic hydrolysis product detection can provide a powerful tool in the exploration of marine glycans and their role in the global carbon cycle.
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- Nicola Steinke
- MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology and ChemistryUniversity of BremenBremenGermany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremenGermany
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- MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology and ChemistryUniversity of BremenBremenGermany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremenGermany
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- MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology and ChemistryUniversity of BremenBremenGermany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremenGermany
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- MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology and ChemistryUniversity of BremenBremenGermany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremenGermany
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Nguan HS, Tsai ST, Ni CK. Collision-Induced Dissociation of Cellobiose and Maltose. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:1486-1495. [PMID: 35212541 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c10046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Structure determination is a longstanding bottleneck of carbohydrate research. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is one of the most widely used methods for carbohydrate structure determination. However, the effectiveness of MS/MS depends on how the precursor structures are derived from the observed fragments. Understanding the dissociation mechanisms is crucial for MS/MS-based structure determination. Herein, we investigate the collision-induced dissociation mechanism of β-cellobiose and β-maltose sodium adducts using quantum chemical calculations and experimental measurements. Four dissociation channels are studied. Dehydration mainly occurs through the transfer of an H atom to O1 of the sugar at the reducing end, followed by a C1-O1 bond cleavage; cross-ring dissociation starts with a ring-opening reaction, which occurs through the transfer of an H atom from O1 to O5 of the sugar at the reducing end. These two dissociation channels are analogous to that of glucose monosaccharide. The third channel, generation of B1 and Y1 ions, occurs through the transfer of an H atom from O3 (cellobiose) or O2 (maltose) to O1 of the sugar at the nonreducing end, followed by a glycosidic bond cleavage. The fourth channel, C1-Z1 fragmentation, has two mechanisms: (1) the transfer of an H atom from O3 or O2 to O4 of the sugar at the reducing end to generate C ions in the ring form and (2) the transfer of an H atom from O3 of the sugar at the reducing end to O5 of the sugar at the nonreducing end to produce C ions in the linear form. The results of calculations are supported by experimental collision-induced dissociation spectral measurements.
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- Hock-Seng Nguan
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.,Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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Bansal P, Ben Faleh A, Warnke S, Rizzo TR. Identification of N-glycan positional isomers by combining IMS and vibrational fingerprinting of structurally determinant CID fragments. Analyst 2022; 147:704-711. [PMID: 35079754 PMCID: PMC8842669 DOI: 10.1039/d1an01861b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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While glycans are present on the surface of cells in all living organisms and play key roles in most biological processes, their isomeric complexity makes their structural characterization challenging. Of particular importance are positional isomers, for which analytical standards are difficult to obtain. We combine ultrahigh-resolution ion-mobility spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation and cryogenic infrared spectroscopy to determine the structure of N-glycan positional isomers. This approach is based on first separating the parent molecules by SLIM-based IMS, producing diagnostic fragments specific to each positional isomer, separating the fragments by IMS, and identifying them by comparing their IR fingerprints to a previously recorded spectral database. We demonstrate this strategy using a bottom-up scheme to identify the positional isomers of the N-linked glycan G0-N, in which a terminal N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) is attached to either the α-3 or α-6 branch of the common N-glycan pentasaccharide core. We then use IR fingerprints of these newly identified isomers to identify the positional isomers of G1 and G1F, which are biantennary complex-type N-glycans with a terminal galactose attached to either the α-3 or α-6 branch, and in the case of G1F a fucose attached to the reducing-end GlcNAc. Starting with just a few analytical standards, this fragment-based spectroscopy method allows us to develop a database which we can use to identify positional isomers. The generalization of this approach would greatly facilitate glycan analysis. We combine high-resolution IMS-IMS with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy for the indentification of N-glycan positional isomers.![]()
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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.
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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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Poveda A, Fittolani G, Seeberger PH, Delbianco M, Jiménez-Barbero J. The Flexibility of Oligosaccharides Unveiled Through Residual Dipolar Coupling Analysis. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:784318. [PMID: 34859057 PMCID: PMC8631391 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.784318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The intrinsic flexibility of glycans complicates the study of their structures and dynamics, which are often important for their biological function. NMR has provided insights into the conformational, dynamic and recognition features of glycans, but suffers from severe chemical shift degeneracy. We employed labelled glycans to explore the conformational behaviour of a β(1-6)-Glc hexasaccharide model through residual dipolar couplings (RDCs). RDC delivered information on the relative orientation of specific residues along the glycan chain and provided experimental clues for the existence of certain geometries. The use of two different aligning media demonstrated the adaptability of flexible oligosaccharide structures to different environments.
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- Ana Poveda
- CICbioGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
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- CICbioGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain.,Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.,Department of Organic Chemistry II, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, EHU-UPV, Leioa, Spain.,Centro de Investigacion Biomedica En Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain
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Glycosylation, one of the most common post-translational modifications in mammalian cells, impacts many biological processes such as cell adhesion, proliferation and differentiation. As the most abundant glycoprotein in human serum, immunoglobulin G (IgG) plays a vital role in immune response and protection. There is a growing body of evidence suggests that IgG structure and function are modulated by attached glycans, especially N-glycans, and aberrant glycosylation is associated with disease states. In this chapter, we review IgG glycan repertoire and function, strategies for profiling IgG N-glycome and recent studies. Mass spectrometry (MS) based techniques are the most powerful tools for profiling IgG glycome. IgG glycans can be divided into high-mannose, biantennary complex and hybrid types, modified with mannosylation, core-fucosylation, galactosylation, bisecting GlcNAcylation, or sialylation. Glycosylation of IgG affects antibody half-life and their affinity and avidity for antigens, regulates crystallizable fragment (Fc) structure and Fcγ receptor signaling, as well as antibody effector function. Because of their critical roles, IgG N-glycans appear to be promising biomarkers for various disease states. Specific IgG glycosylation can convert a pro-inflammatory response to an anti-inflammatory activity. Accordingly, IgG glycoengineering provides a powerful approach to potentially develop effective drugs and treat disease. Based on the understanding of the functional role of IgG glycans, the development of vaccines with enhanced capacity and long-term protection are possible in the near future.
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Liew CY, Chan CK, Huang SP, Cheng YT, Tsai ST, Hsu HC, Wang CC, Ni CK. De novo structural determination of oligosaccharide isomers in glycosphingolipids using logically derived sequence tandem mass spectrometry. Analyst 2021; 146:7345-7357. [PMID: 34766961 DOI: 10.1039/d1an01448j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Despite the importance of carbohydrates in biological systems, structural determination of carbohydrates remains difficult because of the large number of isomers. In this study, a new mass spectrometry method, namely logically derived sequence tandem mass spectrometry (LODES/MSn), was developed to characterize oligosaccharide structures. In this approach, sequential collision-induced dissociation (CID) of oligosaccharides is performed in an ion trap mass spectrometer to identify the linkage position, anomeric configuration, and stereoisomers of each monosaccharide in the oligosaccharides. The CID sequences are derived from carbohydrate dissociation mechanisms. LODES/MSn does not require oligosaccharide standards or the prior knowledge of the rules and principles of biosynthetic pathways; thus LODES/MSn is particularly useful for the investigation of undiscovered oligosaccharides. We demonstrated that the structure of core oligosaccharides in glycosphingolipids can be identified from more than 500 000 isomers using LODES/MSn. The same method can be applied for determining the structures of other oligosaccharides, such as N-, and O-glycans, and free oligosaccharides in milk.
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- Chia Yen Liew
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.,International Graduate Program of Molecular Science and Technology, National Taiwan University (NTU-MST), Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.,an International Graduate Program (TIGP) of Molecular Science and Technology (MST), Academia Sinica, Taiw, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.,Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.
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GlycoStore: A Platform for H/UPLC and Capillary Electrophoresis Glycan Data. Methods Mol Biol 2021. [PMID: 34611863 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1685-7_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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GlycoStore ( http://www.glycostore.org ) is an open access chromatographic and electrophoretic retention database of glycans characterized from glycoproteins, glycolipids, and biotherapeutics. It is a continuation of the GlycoBase project (Oxford Glycobiology Institute and National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Ireland) but addresses many of the technological limitations that impacted the growth of GlycoBase, in particular, improvements to the bioinformatics architecture, enhancing data annotations and coverage, and improving connectivity with external resources. The first release of GlycoStore (October 2017) contains over 850 glycan entries accompanied by 8500+ retention positions including data from: (1) fluorescently labelled released glycans determined using hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (U/HPLC) and reversed phase (RP)-U/HPLC; (2) porous graphitized carbon chromatography (PGC) interfaced with ESI-MS/MS; and (3) capillary electrophoresis with laser induced fluorescence detection (CE-LIF). In this chapter, we outline the objectives of GlycoStore, and describe a selection of step-by-step workflows for navigating and browsing the information available. We also provide a short description of informatics tools available to query the database using Semantic technologies. The information presented in this chapter supplements our documentation knowledge base that describes interface improvements, new features and tools, and content updates ( https://unicarbkb.freshdesk.com/ ).
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Tsai S, Ni C. Differentiation of aldohexoses and ketohexoses through collision‐induced dissociation. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202100257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Shang‐Ting Tsai
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
- Department of Chemistry National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu Taiwan
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Castillo G, Kleene R, Schachner M, Loers G, Torda AE. Proteins Binding to the Carbohydrate HNK-1: Common Origins? Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22158116. [PMID: 34360882 PMCID: PMC8347730 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22158116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The human natural killer (HNK-1) carbohydrate plays important roles during nervous system development, regeneration after trauma and synaptic plasticity. Four proteins have been identified as receptors for HNK-1: the laminin adhesion molecule, high-mobility group box 1 and 2 (also called amphoterin) and cadherin 2 (also called N-cadherin). Because of HNK-1′s importance, we asked whether additional receptors for HNK-1 exist and whether the four identified proteins share any similarity in their primary structures. A set of 40,000 sequences homologous to the known HNK-1 receptors was selected and used for large-scale sequence alignments and motif searches. Although there are conserved regions and highly conserved sites within each of these protein families, there was no sequence similarity or conserved sequence motifs found to be shared by all families. Since HNK-1 receptors have not been compared regarding binding constants and since it is not known whether the sulfated or non-sulfated part of HKN-1 represents the structurally crucial ligand, the receptors are more heterogeneous in primary structure than anticipated, possibly involving different receptor or ligand regions. We thus conclude that the primary protein structure may not be the sole determinant for a bona fide HNK-1 receptor, rendering receptor structure more complex than originally assumed.
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- Gaston Castillo
- Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (G.C.); (R.K.)
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- Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (G.C.); (R.K.)
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- Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA;
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- Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (G.C.); (R.K.)
- Correspondence: (G.L.); (A.E.T.); Tel.: +49-40741056292 (G.L.); +49-40428387331 (A.E.T.)
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- Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstr. 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
- Correspondence: (G.L.); (A.E.T.); Tel.: +49-40741056292 (G.L.); +49-40428387331 (A.E.T.)
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Luong P, Dube DH. Dismantling the bacterial glycocalyx: Chemical tools to probe, perturb, and image bacterial glycans. Bioorg Med Chem 2021; 42:116268. [PMID: 34130219 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The bacterial glycocalyx is a quintessential drug target comprised of structurally distinct glycans. Bacterial glycans bear unusual monosaccharide building blocks whose proper construction is critical for bacterial fitness, survival, and colonization in the human host. Despite their appeal as therapeutic targets, bacterial glycans are difficult to study due to the presence of rare bacterial monosaccharides that are linked and modified in atypical manners. Their structural complexity ultimately hampers their analytical characterization. This review highlights recent advances in bacterial chemical glycobiology and focuses on the development of chemical tools to probe, perturb, and image bacterial glycans and their biosynthesis. Current technologies have enabled the study of bacterial glycosylation machinery even in the absence of detailed structural information.
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- Phuong Luong
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA.
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Novakovic M, Battistel MD, Azurmendi HF, Concilio MG, Freedberg DI, Frydman L. The Incorporation of Labile Protons into Multidimensional NMR Analyses: Glycan Structures Revisited. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:8935-8948. [PMID: 34085814 PMCID: PMC8297728 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Glycan structures
are often stabilized by a repertoire of hydrogen-bonded
donor/acceptor groups, revealing longer-lived structures that could
represent biologically relevant conformations. NMR provides unique
data on these hydrogen-bonded networks from multidimensional experiments
detecting cross-peaks resulting from through-bond (TOCSY) or through-space
(NOESY) interactions. However, fast OH/H2O exchange, and
the spectral proximity among these NMR resonances, hamper the use
of glycans’ labile protons in such analyses; consequently,
studies are often restricted to aprotic solvents or supercooled aqueous
solutions. These nonphysiological conditions may lead to unrepresentative
structures or to probing a small subset of accessible conformations
that may miss “active” glycan conformations. Looped,
projected spectroscopy (L-PROSY) has been recently shown to substantially
enhance protein NOESY and TOCSY cross-peaks, for 1Hs that
undergo fast exchange with water. This study shows that even larger
enhancements can be obtained for rapidly exchanging OHs in saccharides,
leading to the retrieval of previously undetectable 2D TOCSY/NOESY
cross-peaks with nonlabile protons. After demonstrating ≥300%
signal enhancements on model monosaccharides, these experiments were
applied at 1 GHz to elucidate the structural network adopted by a
sialic acid homotetramer, used as a model for α,2–8 linked
polysaccharides. High-field L-PROSY NMR enabled these studies at higher
temperatures and provided insight previously unavailable from lower-field
NMR investigations on supercooled samples, involving mostly nonlabile
nuclei. Using L-PROSY’s NOEs and other restraints, a revised
structural model for the homotetramer was obtained combining rigid
motifs and flexible segments, that is well represented by conformations
derived from 40 μs molecular dynamics simulations.
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- Mihajlo Novakovic
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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Fittolani G, Shanina E, Guberman M, Seeberger PH, Rademacher C, Delbianco M. Automatisierte Glykan‐Assemblierung
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F‐markierter Glykansonden ermöglicht Hochdurchsatz‐NMR‐Untersuchungen von Protein‐Glykan‐Interaktionen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202102690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Giulio Fittolani
- Department of Biomolecular Systems Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Am Mühlenberg 1 14476 Potsdam Deutschland
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Freie Universität Berlin Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Am Mühlenberg 1 14476 Potsdam Deutschland
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Freie Universität Berlin Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Am Mühlenberg 1 14476 Potsdam Deutschland
- Derzeitige Adresse: Medicinal Chemistry Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie Robert-Rössle Straße 10 13125 Berlin Deutschland
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Am Mühlenberg 1 14476 Potsdam Deutschland
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Freie Universität Berlin Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Am Mühlenberg 1 14476 Potsdam Deutschland
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Freie Universität Berlin Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin Deutschland
- Derzeitige Adresse: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of Vienna Althanstraße 14 1080 Wien Österreich
- Derzeitige Adresse: Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics Max F. Perutz Labs Campus Vienna Biocenter 5 1030 Wien Österreich
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Am Mühlenberg 1 14476 Potsdam Deutschland
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Fittolani G, Shanina E, Guberman M, Seeberger PH, Rademacher C, Delbianco M. Automated Glycan Assembly of 19 F-labeled Glycan Probes Enables High-Throughput NMR Studies of Protein-Glycan Interactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:13302-13309. [PMID: 33784430 PMCID: PMC8252726 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202102690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Protein–glycan interactions mediate important biological processes, including pathogen host invasion and cellular communication. Herein, we showcase an expedite approach that integrates automated glycan assembly (AGA) of 19F‐labeled probes and high‐throughput NMR methods, enabling the study of protein–glycan interactions. Synthetic Lewis type 2 antigens were screened against seven glycan binding proteins (GBPs), including DC‐SIGN and BambL, respectively involved in HIV‐1 and lung infections in immunocompromised patients, confirming the preference for fucosylated glycans (Lex, H type 2, Ley). Previously unknown glycan–lectin weak interactions were detected, and thermodynamic data were obtained. Enzymatic reactions were monitored in real‐time, delivering kinetic parameters. These results demonstrate the utility of AGA combined with 19F NMR for the discovery and characterization of glycan–protein interactions, opening up new perspectives for 19F‐labeled complex glycans.
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- Giulio Fittolani
- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Current address: Medicinal Chemistry, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Rössle Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195, Berlin, Germany.,Current address: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1080, Vienna, Austria.,Current address: Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics, Max F. Perutz Labs, Campus Vienna Biocenter 5, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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Shi Q, Yan J, Jiang B, Chi X, Wang J, Liang X, Ai X. A general strategy for the structural determination of carbohydrates by multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopies. Carbohydr Polym 2021; 267:118218. [PMID: 34119172 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 05/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Two-dimensional NMR spectroscopies are one of the most frequently used techniques for the structural determination of carbohydrates. However, the data analysis is challenging because of the signal overlap in the 1H homonuclear correlation spectra. We attempted to explore a general strategy for the structural determination of carbohydrates by combined multi-dimensional spectroscopies. The strategy was applied to a human milk oligosaccharide lacto-N-difucohexaose I, that has been previously studied by conventional two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. Assignment of the intra-residue resonances of the hexasaccharide using the three-dimensional spectrum was straightforward. Consequently, data analysis of the multi-dimensional spectra was significantly simplified, leading to a quicker determination of the intra- and inter-residue connections in the hexasaccharide. Application of the NMR strategy to chondroitin sulfate from bovine cartilage revealed two repeating disaccharide regions of the A and C units of chondroitin sulfate, indicating the high potential of this technique for the structural determination of complex polysaccharides.
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- Qi Shi
- School of Biological Engineering, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China; Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- School of Biological Engineering, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China; School of Chemical Engineering and Energy Technology, Institute of Science and Technology Innovation, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
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- Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
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High-throughput and high-sensitivity N-Glycan profiling: A platform for biopharmaceutical development and disease biomarker discovery. Anal Biochem 2021; 623:114205. [PMID: 33891963 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2021.114205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Protein glycosylation contributes to critical biological function of glycoproteins. Glycan analysis is essential for the production of biopharmaceuticals as well as for the identification of disease biomarkers. However, glycans are highly heterogeneous, which has considerably hampered the progress of glycomics. Here, we present an improved 96-well plate format platform for streamlined glycan profiling that takes advantage of rapid glycoprotein denaturation, deglycosylation, fluorescent derivatization, and on-matrix glycan clean-up. This approach offers high sensitivity with consistent identification and quantification of diverse N-glycans across multiple samples on a high-throughput scale. We demonstrate its capability for N-glycan profiling of glycoproteins from various sources, including two recombinant monoclonal antibodies produced from Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, EG2-hFc and rituximab, polyclonal antibodies purified from human serum, and total glycoproteins from human serum. Combined with the complementary information obtained by sequential digestion from exoglycosidase arrays, this approach allows the detection and identification of multiple N-glycans in these complex biological samples. The reagents, workflow, and Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection (HILIC-FLD), are simple enough to be implemented into a straightforward user-friendly setup. This improved technology provides a powerful tool in support of rapid advancement of glycan analysis for biopharmaceutical development and biomarker discovery for clinical disease diagnosis.
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Trefulka M, Černocká H, Havran L, Hasoň S, Fojt L, Ostatná V. Voltammetric sensing of glycans modified by osmium(VI)ligand complexes. The influence of N-acetyl neuraminic acid. Electrochim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.137658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Hamagami H, Yamaguchi Y, Tanaka H. Chemical Synthesis of Residue-Selectively 13C and 2H Double-Isotope-Labeled Oligosaccharides as Chemical Probes for the NMR-Based Conformational Analysis of Oligosaccharides. J Org Chem 2020; 85:16115-16127. [PMID: 33107296 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The conformational analysis of oligosaccharide is a fundamental issue in glycobiology. NMR measurements of atom-selectively 13C-labeled oligosaccharides have provided valuable information concerning their conformation, which would not be possible using nonlabeled oligosaccharides. The amount of accessible information from an atom-selectively labeled molecule, however, is limited. In this work, we report on the chemical synthesis of residue-selectively 13C- and 2H-labeled oligosaccharides and their use in conformational analysis. 1H NMR measurements of such double isotope-labeled compounds can provide a great deal of information on the dihedral angles across glycosidic linkages. We demonstrated this method in the conformational analyses of some linear and branched β(1,3)-glucan oligosaccharides.
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- Hiroki Hamagami
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-H101 Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- RIKEN-Max-Planck Joint Research Center for Systems Chemical Biology RIKEN Global Research Cluster, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-H101 Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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Scherbinina SI, Toukach PV. Three-Dimensional Structures of Carbohydrates and Where to Find Them. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E7702. [PMID: 33081008 PMCID: PMC7593929 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21207702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Analysis and systematization of accumulated data on carbohydrate structural diversity is a subject of great interest for structural glycobiology. Despite being a challenging task, development of computational methods for efficient treatment and management of spatial (3D) structural features of carbohydrates breaks new ground in modern glycoscience. This review is dedicated to approaches of chemo- and glyco-informatics towards 3D structural data generation, deposition and processing in regard to carbohydrates and their derivatives. Databases, molecular modeling and experimental data validation services, and structure visualization facilities developed for last five years are reviewed.
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- Sofya I. Scherbinina
- N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Leninsky prospect 47, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Higher Chemical College, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Miusskaya Square 9, 125047 Moscow, Russia
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- N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Leninsky prospect 47, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Li W, Battistel MD, Reeves H, Oh L, Yu H, Chen X, Wang LP, Freedberg DI. A combined NMR, MD and DFT conformational analysis of 9-O-acetyl sialic acid-containing GM3 ganglioside glycan and its 9-N-acetyl mimic. Glycobiology 2020; 30:787-801. [PMID: 32350512 PMCID: PMC8179627 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwaa040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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O-Acetylation of carbohydrates such as sialic acids is common in nature, but its role is not clearly understood due to the lability of O-acetyl groups. We demonstrated previously that 9-acetamido-9-deoxy-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac9NAc) is a chemically and biologically stable mimic of the 9-O-acetyl-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5,9Ac2) of the corresponding sialoglycans. Here, a systematic nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study was undertaken for Neu5,9Ac2-containing GM3 ganglioside glycan (GM3-glycan) and its Neu5Ac9NAc analog. GM3-glycan with Neu5Ac as the non-O-acetyl form of Neu5,9Ac2 was used as a control. Complete 1H and 13C NMR chemical shift assignments, three-bond 1H-13C trans-glycosidic coupling constants (3JCH), accurate 1H-1H coupling constants (3JHH), nuclear Overhauser effects and hydrogen bonding detection were carried out. Results show that structural modification (O- or N-acetylation) on the C-9 of Neu5Ac in GM3 glycan does not cause significant conformational changes on either its glycosidic dihedral angles or its secondary structure. All structural differences are confined to the Neu5Ac glycerol chain, and minor temperature-dependent changes are seen in the aglycone portion. We also used Density Functional Theory (DFT) quantum mechanical calculations to improve currently used 3JHH Karplus relations. Furthermore, OH chemical shifts were assigned at -10°C and no evidence of an intramolecular hydrogen bond was observed. The results provide additional evidence regarding structural similarities between sialosides containing 9-N-acetylated and 9-O-acetylated Neu5Ac and support the opportunity of using 9-N-acetylated Neu5Ac as a stable mimic to study the biochemical role of 9-O-acetylated Neu5Ac.
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- Wanqing Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA
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Fricke SN, Seymour JD, Battistel MD, Freedberg DI, Eads CD, Augustine MP. Data processing in NMR relaxometry using the matrix pencil. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2020; 313:106704. [PMID: 32179433 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The matrix pencil method (MPM) is explored for stable, reproducible data processing in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry. Data from one-dimensional and two-dimensional relaxometry experiments designed to measure transverse relaxation T2, longitudinal relaxation T1, diffusion coefficient D values, and their correlations in a standard olive oil/water mixture serve as a platform available to any NMR spectroscopist to compare the performance of the MPM to the benchmark inverse Laplace transform (ILT). The data from two practical examples, including the drying of a solvent polymer system and the enzymatic digestion of polysialic acid, were also explored with the MPM and ILT. In the cases considered here, the MPM appears to outperform the ILT in terms of resolution and stability in the determination of fundamental constants for complex materials and mixtures.
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- S N Fricke
- Department of Chemistry, 69 Chemistry Building, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, 306 Cobleigh Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA
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- The Procter & Gamble Company, 8700 S. Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason, OH 45040, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, 69 Chemistry Building, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Identification of carbohydrate peripheral epitopes important for recognition by positive-ion MALDI multistage mass spectrometry. Carbohydr Polym 2020; 229:115528. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Tyrikos-Ergas T, Fittolani G, Seeberger PH, Delbianco M. Structural Studies Using Unnatural Oligosaccharides: Toward Sugar Foldamers. Biomacromolecules 2019; 21:18-29. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.9b01090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Theodore Tyrikos-Ergas
- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Tsai S, Liew CY, Hsu C, Huang S, Weng W, Kuo Y, Ni C. Automatic Full Glycan Structural Determination through Logically Derived Sequence Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Chembiochem 2019; 20:2351-2359. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Shang‐Ting Tsai
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular SciencesAcademia Sinica P. O. Box 23-166 Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular SciencesAcademia Sinica P. O. Box 23-166 Taipei 10617 Taiwan
- Molecular Science and Technology International Graduate ProgramAcademia Sinica and National University Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular SciencesAcademia Sinica P. O. Box 23-166 Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular SciencesAcademia Sinica P. O. Box 23-166 Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular SciencesAcademia Sinica P. O. Box 23-166 Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular SciencesAcademia Sinica P. O. Box 23-166 Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular SciencesAcademia Sinica P. O. Box 23-166 Taipei 10617 Taiwan
- Department of ChemistryNational Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 30013 Taiwan
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Li K, Green AR, Dinges MM, Larive CK. 1H NMR characterization of chitin tetrasaccharide in binary H 2O:DMSO solution: Evidence for anomeric end-effect propagation. Int J Biol Macromol 2019; 129:744-749. [PMID: 30771389 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.02.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chitin oligosaccharides, composed of homogeneous β(1 → 4)-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) sequences, is a well-known elicitor of plant immune defense, and also occur as structural elements of chitosan and nodulation (Nod) factor. Detailed microstructure characterization is required for understanding the function mode of these bioactive molecules. Herein, experimental conditions for detection and elucidation of the 1H NMR resonances of amide groups in chitin oligosaccharides are presented. The binary mixture of 70% H2O: 30% DMSO‑d6 was found to be the optimal solvent for amide proton measurements in homogeneous GlcNAc sequences, facilitating differentiation of the local chemical microenvironments of all four amide groups of the chitin tetrasaccharide. Experimental evidence that anomeric end-effect triggers amide proton resonance differentiation at the adjacent residue has potential to provide important insights into the solution structure of chitin and other amino sugars containing GlcNAc sequences.
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- Kecheng Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States; Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States.
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NMR solution geometry of saccharides containing the 6-O-(α-D-glucopyranosyl)-α/β-D-glucopyranose (isomaltose) or 6-O-(α-D-galactopyranosyl)-α/β-D-glucopyranose (melibiose) core. Carbohydr Res 2019; 473:18-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2018.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Khanal N, Masellis C, Kamrath MZ, Clemmer DE, Rizzo TR. Cryogenic IR spectroscopy combined with ion mobility spectrometry for the analysis of human milk oligosaccharides. Analyst 2019. [PMID: 29541730 DOI: 10.1039/c8an00230d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We report here our combination of cryogenic, messenger-tagging, infrared (IR) spectroscopy with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) as a way to identify and analyze a set of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) ranging from trisaccharides to hexasaccharides. The added dimension of IR spectroscopy provides a diagnostic fingerprint in the OH and NH stretching region, which is crucial to identify these oligosaccharides, which are difficult to distinguish by IMS alone. These results extend our previous work in demonstrating the generality of this combined approach for distinguishing subtly different structural and regioisomers of glycans of biologically relevant size.
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- Neelam Khanal
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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Mucha E, Stuckmann A, Marianski M, Struwe WB, Meijer G, Pagel K. In-depth structural analysis of glycans in the gas phase. Chem Sci 2019; 10:1272-1284. [PMID: 30809341 PMCID: PMC6357860 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05426f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Although there have been substantial improvements in glycan analysis over the past decade, the lack of both high-resolution and high-throughput methods hampers progress in glycomics. This perspective article highlights the current developments of liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, ion-mobility spectrometry and cryogenic IR spectroscopy for glycan analysis and gives a critical insight to their individual strengths and limitations. Moreover, we discuss a novel concept in which ion mobility-mass spectrometry and cryogenic IR spectroscopy is combined in a single instrument such that datasets consisting of m/z, collision cross sections and IR fingerprints can be obtained. This multidimensional data will then be compared to a comprehensive reference library of intact glycans and their fragments to accurately identify unknown glycans on a high-throughput scale with minimal sample requirements. Due to the complementarity of the obtained information, this novel approach is highly diagnostic and also suitable for the identification of larger glycans; however, the workflow and instrumentation is straightforward enough to be implemented into a user-friendly setup.
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- Eike Mucha
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society , Department of Molecular Physics , Faradayweg 4-6 , 14195 Berlin , Germany . .,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Freie Universität Berlin , Takustraße 3 , 14195 Berlin , Germany
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society , Department of Molecular Physics , Faradayweg 4-6 , 14195 Berlin , Germany . .,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Freie Universität Berlin , Takustraße 3 , 14195 Berlin , Germany
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society , Department of Molecular Physics , Faradayweg 4-6 , 14195 Berlin , Germany .
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- Oxford Glycobiology Institute , Department of Biochemistry , University of Oxford , OX1 3QU Oxford , UK
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society , Department of Molecular Physics , Faradayweg 4-6 , 14195 Berlin , Germany .
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society , Department of Molecular Physics , Faradayweg 4-6 , 14195 Berlin , Germany . .,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Freie Universität Berlin , Takustraße 3 , 14195 Berlin , Germany
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Brown GD, Bauer J, Osborn HMI, Kuemmerle R. A Solution NMR Approach To Determine the Chemical Structures of Carbohydrates Using the Hydroxyl Groups as Starting Points. ACS OMEGA 2018; 3:17957-17975. [PMID: 31458388 PMCID: PMC6644132 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 12/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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An efficient NMR approach is described for determining the chemical structures of the monosaccharide glucose and four disaccharides, namely, nigerose, gentiobiose, leucrose and isomaltulose. This approach uses the 1H resonances of the -OH groups, which are observable in the NMR spectrum of a supercooled aqueous solution, as the starting point for further analysis. The 2D-NMR technique, HSQC-TOCSY, is then applied to fully define the covalent structure (i.e., the topological relationship between C-C, C-H, and O-H bonds) that must be established for a novel carbohydrate before proceeding to further conformational studies. This process also leads to complete assignment of all 1H and 13C resonances. The approach is exemplified by analyzing the monosaccharide glucose, which is treated as if it were an "unknown", and also by fully assigning all the NMR resonances for the four disaccharides that contain glucose. It is proposed that this technique should be equally applicable to the determination of chemical structures for larger carbohydrates of unknown composition, including those that are only available in limited quantities from biological studies. The advantages of commencing the structure elucidation of a carbohydrate at the -OH groups are discussed with reference to the now well-established 2D-/3D-NMR strategy for investigation of peptides/proteins, which employs the -NH resonances as the starting point.
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- Geoffrey D. Brown
- Department of Chemistry and Reading School of Pharmacy, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AP, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Reading School of Pharmacy, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AP, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Reading School of Pharmacy, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AP, United Kingdom
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- Bruker
Biospin AG, NMR Division, Industriestrasse 26, CH-8117 Fallanden, Switzerland
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Briggs MT, Condina MR, Klingler‐Hoffmann M, Arentz G, Everest‐Dass AV, Kaur G, Oehler MK, Packer NH, Hoffmann P. TranslatingN‐Glycan Analytical Applications into Clinical Strategies for Ovarian Cancer. Proteomics Clin Appl 2018; 13:e1800099. [DOI: 10.1002/prca.201800099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Revised: 09/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Matthew T. Briggs
- Adelaide Proteomics CentreSchool of Biological SciencesUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide 5005 Australia
- ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP)University of Adelaide Adelaide 5005 Australia
- Future Industries InstituteMawson Lakes CampusUniversity of South Australia 5095 Mawson Lakes
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- Future Industries InstituteMawson Lakes CampusUniversity of South Australia 5095 Mawson Lakes
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- Future Industries InstituteMawson Lakes CampusUniversity of South Australia 5095 Mawson Lakes
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- Institute for GlycomicsGold Coast CampusGriffith University Gold Coast 4215 Australia
- ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP)Macquarie University Sydney 2109 Australia
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- Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM)Universiti Sains Malaysia Pulau Pinang Malaysia
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- Department of Gynaecological OncologyRoyal Adelaide Hospital Adelaide 5000 South Australia Australia
- Robinson InstituteUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide 5005 Australia
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- Institute for GlycomicsGold Coast CampusGriffith University Gold Coast 4215 Australia
- ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP)Macquarie University Sydney 2109 Australia
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- Future Industries InstituteMawson Lakes CampusUniversity of South Australia 5095 Mawson Lakes
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Pitoux D, Hu Z, Plainchont B, Merlet D, Farjon J, Bonnaffé D, Giraud N. Combining pure shift and J-edited spectroscopies: A strategy for extracting chemical shifts and scalar couplings from highly crowded proton spectra of oligomeric saccharides. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2018; 56:954-962. [PMID: 29396911 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Revised: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report the application of pure shift and J-edited nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies to the structural analysis of a protected maltotrioside synthetic intermediate whose crowded 1 H spectrum displays highly crowded regions. The analytical strategy is based on the implementation of J-edited and TOCSY experiments whose resolution is optimized by the use of broadband homonuclear decoupling and selective refocusing techniques, to assign and measure chemical shifts and homonuclear scalar couplings with high accuracy. The resulting data show a high level of complementarity, providing a detailed insight into each subunit of this oligomeric saccharide, even for proton sites whose nuclear magnetic resonance signals strongly overlap. This approach allowed for fully assigning proton chemical shifts and extracting 80% of the 3 JHH couplings that are in excellent agreement with those expected for D-gluco-pyranosyl units in 4 C1 conformations.
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- D Pitoux
- Equipe de RMN en milieu orienté, ICMMO, UMR 8182 (CNRS-UPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Equipe Méthodologies, Synthèses et Molécules Thérapeutiques, ICMMO, UMR 8182 (CNRS-UPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Equipe de RMN en milieu orienté, ICMMO, UMR 8182 (CNRS-UPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Equipe de RMN en milieu orienté, ICMMO, UMR 8182 (CNRS-UPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Equipe de RMN en milieu orienté, ICMMO, UMR 8182 (CNRS-UPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Equipe Méthodologies, Synthèses et Molécules Thérapeutiques, ICMMO, UMR 8182 (CNRS-UPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Equipe de RMN en milieu orienté, ICMMO, UMR 8182 (CNRS-UPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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Peng J, Patil SM, Keire DA, Chen K. Chemical Structure and Composition of Major Glycans Covalently Linked to Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies by Middle-Down Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Anal Chem 2018; 90:11016-11024. [PMID: 30102512 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Glycosylation of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is a critical quality attribute that can impact mAb drug efficacy and safety. The mAb glycans are inherently heterogeneous in chemical structure and composition of monosaccharides. The established fluorescence or mass-spectrometry (MS) detection methods for glycosylation evaluation may require multiple steps of glycan cleavage or extensive digestion of the mAb, chemical labeling of the glycans, column separation and report the chemical identity of glycans indirectly through retention time and molecular weight values. In demonstrating chemical structure similarity and comparability among mAb drugs, orthogonal analytical methods for measuring glycan chemistry are needed to ensure the quality of drug products. Here, a "middle-down" NMR method is developed as a proof-of-concept approach to measure the domain-specific glycosylation of marketed mAb drugs without cleavage of the glycan moieties. Complete glycan 1H/13C chemical shift assignments were obtained at 13C natural abundance from commercial standard glycans that allowed unambiguous determination of the chemical structure, glycosidic linkage position, and anomeric configuration of each monosaccharide in the major N-glycan scaffolds found in mAb molecules. The analysis of glycan anomeric peaks in two-dimensional (2D) 1H-13C NMR spectra yielded metrics for clinically important mAb quality attributes (i.e., galactosylation (Gal%) and fucosylation (Fuc%)), consistent with literature results using a standard glycan-mapping method. Therefore, the middle-down NMR method provided a facile orthogonal measurement for mAb glycosylation characterization with improved chemical information content on glycan structure determination and quantification, compared to standard approaches.
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Complex carbohydrates are ubiquitous in nature, and together with proteins and nucleic acids they comprise the building blocks of life. But unlike proteins and nucleic acids, carbohydrates form nonlinear polymers, and they are not characterized by robust secondary or tertiary structures but rather by distributions of well-defined conformational states. Their molecular flexibility means that oligosaccharides are often refractory to crystallization, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy augmented by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is the leading method for their characterization in solution. The biological importance of carbohydrate-protein interactions, in organismal development as well as in disease, places urgency on the creation of innovative experimental and theoretical methods that can predict the specificity of such interactions and quantify their strengths. Additionally, the emerging realization that protein glycosylation impacts protein function and immunogenicity places the ability to define the mechanisms by which glycosylation impacts these features at the forefront of carbohydrate modeling. This review will discuss the relevant theoretical approaches to studying the three-dimensional structures of this fascinating class of molecules and interactions, with reference to the relevant experimental data and techniques that are key for validation of the theoretical predictions.
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- Robert J Woods
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Georgia , 315 Riverbend Road , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States
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Evaporative fluorophore labeling of carbohydrates via reductive amination. Talanta 2018; 185:365-369. [PMID: 29759213 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2018.03.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Revised: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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As analytical glycomics became to prominence, newer and more efficient sample preparation methods are being developed. Albeit, numerous reductive amination based carbohydrate labeling protocols have been reported in the literature, the preferred way to conduct the reaction is in closed vials. Here we report on a novel evaporative labeling protocol with the great advantage of continuously concentrating the reagents during the tagging reaction, therefore accommodating to reach the optimal reagent concentrations for a wide range of glycan structures in a complex mixture. The optimized conditions of the evaporative labeling process minimized sialylation loss, otherwise representing a major issue in reductive amination based carbohydrate tagging. In addition, complete and uniform dispersion of dry samples was obtained by supplementing the low volume labeling mixtures (several microliters) with the addition of extra solvent (e.g., THF). Evaporative labeling is an automation-friendly glycan labeling method, suitable for standard open 96 well plate format operation.
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Everest-Dass AV, Moh ESX, Ashwood C, Shathili AMM, Packer NH. Human disease glycomics: technology advances enabling protein glycosylation analysis - part 1. Expert Rev Proteomics 2018; 15:165-182. [PMID: 29285957 DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2018.1421946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Protein glycosylation is recognized as an important post-translational modification, with specific substructures having significant effects on protein folding, conformation, distribution, stability and activity. However, due to the structural complexity of glycans, elucidating glycan structure-function relationships is demanding. The fine detail of glycan structures attached to proteins (including sequence, branching, linkage and anomericity) is still best analysed after the glycans are released from the purified or mixture of glycoproteins (glycomics). The technologies currently available for glycomics are becoming streamlined and standardized and many features of protein glycosylation can now be determined using instruments available in most protein analytical laboratories. Areas covered: This review focuses on the current glycomics technologies being commonly used for the analysis of the microheterogeneity of monosaccharide composition, sequence, branching and linkage of released N- and O-linked glycans that enable the determination of precise glycan structural determinants presented on secreted proteins and on the surface of all cells. Expert commentary: Several emerging advances in these technologies enabling glycomics analysis are discussed. The technological and bioinformatics requirements to be able to accurately assign these precise glycan features at biological levels in a disease context are assessed.
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- Arun V Everest-Dass
- a Biomolecular Discovery and Design Research Centre, Faculty of Science and Engineering , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia.,b Institute for Glycomics , Griffith University , Gold Coast , Australia.,c ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia
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- a Biomolecular Discovery and Design Research Centre, Faculty of Science and Engineering , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia.,c ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia
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- a Biomolecular Discovery and Design Research Centre, Faculty of Science and Engineering , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia.,c ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia
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- a Biomolecular Discovery and Design Research Centre, Faculty of Science and Engineering , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia.,c ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia
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- a Biomolecular Discovery and Design Research Centre, Faculty of Science and Engineering , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia.,b Institute for Glycomics , Griffith University , Gold Coast , Australia.,c ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia
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Azurmendi HF, Battistel MD, Zarb J, Lichaa F, Negrete Virgen A, Shiloach J, Freedberg DI. The β-reducing end in α(2-8)-polysialic acid constitutes a unique structural motif. Glycobiology 2017; 27:900-911. [PMID: 28369425 PMCID: PMC6283323 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwx025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Revised: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Over the years, structural characterizations of α(2-8)-polysialic acid (polySia) in solution have produced inconclusive results. Efforts for obtaining detailed information in this important antigen have focused primarily on the α-linked residues and not on the distinctive characteristics of the terminal ones. The thermodynamically preferred anomeric configuration for the reducing end of sialic acids is β, which has the [I]CO2- group equatorial and the OH ([I]OH2) axial, while for all other residues the CO2- group is axial. We show that this purportedly minor difference has distinct consequences for the structure of α(2-8)-polySia near the reducing end, as the β configuration places the [I]OH2 in a favorable position for the formation of a hydrogen bond with the carboxylate group of the following residue ([II]CO2-). Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations predicted the hydrogen bond, which we subsequently directly detected by NMR. The combination of MD and residual dipolar couplings shows that the net result for the structure of Sia2-βOH is a stable conformation with well-defined hydration and charge patterns, and consistent with experimental NOE-based hydroxyl and aliphatic inter-proton distances. Moreover, we provide evidence that this distinct conformation is preserved on Sia oligosaccharides, thus constituting a motif that determines the structure and dynamics of α(2-8)-polySia for at least the first two residues of the polymer. We suggest the hypothesis that this structural motif sheds light on a longtime puzzling observation for the requirement of 10 residues of α(2-8)-polySia in order to bind effectively to specific antibodies, about four units more than for analogous cases.
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- Hugo F Azurmendi
- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA
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- Biotechnology Unit, MSC 5522, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA
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