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Cao C, Cheng Y, Zheng Y, Huang B, Guo Z, Yu L, Mulloy B, Tajadura-Ortega V, Chai W, Yan J, Liang X. Isolation of Human Milk Difucosyl Nona- and Decasaccharides by Ultrahigh-Temperature Preparative PGC-HPLC and Identification of Novel Difucosylated Heptaose and Octaose Backbones by Negative-Ion ESI-MS n. Anal Chem 2024; 96:6170-6179. [PMID: 38616610 PMCID: PMC11044106 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/07/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
Abstract
Despite their many important physiological functions, past work on the diverse sequences of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) has been focused mainly on the highly abundant HMOs with a relatively low degree of polymerization (DP) due to the lack of efficient methods for separation/purification and high-sensitivity sequencing of large-sized HMOs with DP ≥ 10. Here we established an ultrahigh-temperature preparative HPLC based on a porous graphitized carbon column at up to 145 °C to overcome the anomeric α/β splitting problem and developed further the negative-ion ESI-CID-MS/MS into multistage MSn using a combined product-ion scanning of singly charged molecular ion and doubly charged fragment ion of the branching Gal and adjacent GlcNAc residues. The separation and sequencing method allows efficient separation of a neutral fraction with DP ≥ 10 into 70 components, among which 17 isomeric difucosylated nona- and decasaccharides were further purified and sequenced. As a result, novel branched difucosyl heptaose and octaose backbones were unambiguously identified in addition to the conventional linear and branched octaose backbones. The novel structures of difucosylated DF-novo-heptaose, DF-novo-LNO I, and DF-novo-LNnO I were corroborated by NMR. The various fucose-containing Lewis epitopes identified on different backbones were confirmed by oligosaccharide microarray analysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cuiyan Cao
- Dalian
Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory
of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian 116023, China
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- Jiangxi
Provincial Key Laboratory for Pharmacodynamic Material Basis of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, Ganjiang Chinese Medicine Innovation Center, Nanchang 330000, China
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- Dalian
Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory
of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian 116023, China
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- Jiangxi
Provincial Key Laboratory for Pharmacodynamic Material Basis of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, Ganjiang Chinese Medicine Innovation Center, Nanchang 330000, China
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- Dalian
Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory
of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian 116023, China
- University
of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Dalian
Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory
of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian 116023, China
- University
of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Glycosciences
Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial
College London, Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- Glycosciences
Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial
College London, Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- Glycosciences
Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial
College London, Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- Dalian
Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory
of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian 116023, China
- University
of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Dalian
Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory
of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian 116023, China
- University
of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Production, characteristics and applications of microbial heparinases. Biochimie 2022; 198:109-140. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2022.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Chai W, Zhang Y, Mauri L, Ciampa MG, Mulloy B, Sonnino S, Feizi T. Assignment by Negative-Ion Electrospray Tandem Mass Spectrometry of the Tetrasaccharide Backbones of Monosialylated Glycans Released from Bovine Brain Gangliosides. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2018; 29:1308-1318. [PMID: 29752599 PMCID: PMC6003998 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-018-1944-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 03/10/2018] [Accepted: 03/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
Gangliosides, as plasma membrane-associated sialylated glycolipids, are antigenic structures and they serve as ligands for adhesion proteins of pathogens, for toxins of bacteria, and for endogenous proteins of the host. The detectability by carbohydrate-binding proteins of glycan antigens and ligands on glycolipids can be influenced by the differing lipid moieties. To investigate glycan sequences of gangliosides as recognition structures, we have underway a program of work to develop a "gangliome" microarray consisting of isolated natural gangliosides and neoglycolipids (NGLs) derived from glycans released from them, and each linked to the same lipid molecule for arraying and comparative microarray binding analyses. Here, in the first phase of our studies, we describe a strategy for high-sensitivity assignment of the tetrasaccharide backbones and application to identification of eight of monosialylated glycans released from bovine brain gangliosides. This approach is based on negative-ion electrospray mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation (ESI-CID-MS/MS) of the desialylated glycans. Using this strategy, we have the data on backbone regions of four minor components among the monosialo-ganglioside-derived glycans; these are of the ganglio-, lacto-, and neolacto-series. Graphical abstract.
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- Wengang Chai
- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, W12 0NN, UK.
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Graduate School of Biochemical, Nutritional and Metabolic Sciences, University of Milan, 20090, Segrate, Italy
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Graduate School of Biochemical, Nutritional and Metabolic Sciences, University of Milan, 20090, Segrate, Italy
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Graduate School of Biochemical, Nutritional and Metabolic Sciences, University of Milan, 20090, Segrate, Italy
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, W12 0NN, UK.
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Hu G, Shao M, Gao X, Wang F, Liu C. Probing cleavage promiscuity of heparinase III towards chemoenzymatically synthetic heparan sulfate oligosaccharides. Carbohydr Polym 2017; 173:276-285. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.05.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Revised: 05/10/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Mulloy B, Wu N, Gyapon-Quast F, Lin L, Zhang F, Pickering MC, Linhardt RJ, Feizi T, Chai W. Abnormally High Content of Free Glucosamine Residues Identified in a Preparation of Commercially Available Porcine Intestinal Heparan Sulfate. Anal Chem 2016; 88:6648-52. [PMID: 27295282 PMCID: PMC4948919 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
Abstract
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Heparan sulfate (HS)
polysaccharides are ubiquitous in animal tissues
as components of proteoglycans, and they participate in many important
biological processes. HS carbohydrate chains are complex and can contain
rare structural components such as N-unsubstituted
glucosamine (GlcN). Commercially available HS preparations have been
invaluable in many types of research activities. In the course of
preparing microarrays to include probes derived from HS oligosaccharides,
we found an unusually high content of GlcN residue in a recently purchased
batch of porcine intestinal mucosal HS. Composition and sequence analysis
by mass spectrometry of the oligosaccharides obtained after heparin
lyase III digestion of the polysaccharide indicated two and three
GlcN in the tetrasaccharide and hexasaccharide fractions, respectively. 1H NMR of the intact polysaccharide showed that this unusual
batch differed strikingly from other HS preparations obtained from
bovine kidney and porcine intestine. The very high content of GlcN
(30%) and low content of GlcNAc (4.2%) determined by disaccharide
composition analysis indicated that N-deacetylation
and/or N-desulfation may have taken place. HS is
widely used by the scientific community to investigate HS structures
and activities. Great care has to be taken in drawing conclusions
from investigations of structural features of HS and specificities
of HS interaction with proteins when commercial HS is used without
further analysis. Pending the availability of a validated commercial
HS reference preparation, our data may be useful to members of the
scientific community who have used the present preparation in their
studies.
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- Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, New York 12180, United States
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Gao C, Zhang Y, Liu Y, Feizi T, Chai W. Negative-Ion Electrospray Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Microarray Analyses of Developmentally Regulated Antigens Based on Type 1 and Type 2 Backbone Sequences. Anal Chem 2015; 87:11871-8. [PMID: 26530895 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Type 1 (Galβ1-3GlcNAc) and type 2 (Galβ1-4GlcNAc) sequences are constituents of the backbones of a large family of glycans of glycoproteins and glycolipids whose branching and peripheral substitutions are developmentally regulated. It is highly desirable to have microsequencing methods that can be used to precisely identify and monitor these oligosaccharide sequences with high sensitivity. Negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation has been used for characterization of branching points, peripheral substitutions, and partial assignment of linkages in reducing oligosaccharides. We now extend this method to characterizing entire sequences of linear type 1 and type 2 chain-based glycans, focusing on the type 1 and type 2 units in the internal regions including the linkages connecting type 1 and type 2 disaccharide units. We apply the principles to sequence analysis of closely related isomeric oligosaccharides and demonstrate by microarray analyses distinct binding activities of antibodies and a lectin toward various combinations of type 1 and 2 units joined by 1,3- and 1,6-linkages. These sequence-specific carbohydrate-binding proteins are in turn valuable tools for detecting and distinguishing the type 1 and type 2-based developmentally regulated glycan sequences.
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- Chao Gao
- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London , Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, U.K
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London , Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, U.K
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London , Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, U.K
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London , Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, U.K
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London , Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, U.K
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Zhang H, Zhang S, Tao G, Zhang Y, Mulloy B, Zhan X, Chai W. Typing of blood-group antigens on neutral oligosaccharides by negative-ion electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2013; 85:5940-9. [PMID: 23692402 PMCID: PMC3856363 DOI: 10.1021/ac400700e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Blood-group antigens, such as those containing fucose and bearing the ABO(H)- and Lewis-type determinants expressed on the carbohydrate chains of glycoproteins and glycolipids, and also on unconjugated free oligosaccharides in human milk and other secretions, are associated with various biological functions. We have previously shown the utility of negative-ion electrospay ionization tandem mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation (ESI-CID-MS/MS) for typing of Lewis (Le) determinants, for example, Le(a), Le(x), Le(b), and Le(y) on neutral and sialylated oligosaccharide chains. In the present report, we extended the strategy to characterization of blood-group A-, B-, and H-determinants on type 1 and type 2 and also on type 4 globoside chains to provide a high sensitivity method for typing of all the major blood-group antigens, including the A, B, H, Le(a), Le(x), Le(b), and Le(y) determinants, present in oligosaccharides. Using the principles established, we identified two minor unknown oligosaccharide components present in the products of enzymatic synthesis by bacterial fermentation. We also demonstrated that the unique fragmentations derived from the D- and (0,2)A-type cleavages observed in ESI-CID-MS/MS, which are important for assigning blood-group and chain types, only occur under the negative-ion conditions for reducing sugars but not for reduced alditols or under positive-ion conditions.
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- Hongtao Zhang
- The Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Testing and Analysis Centre, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Testing and Analysis Centre, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- The Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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Naimy H, Leymarie N, Zaia J. Screening for anticoagulant heparan sulfate octasaccharides and fine structure characterization using tandem mass spectrometry. Biochemistry 2010; 49:3743-52. [PMID: 20345121 DOI: 10.1021/bi100135d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Heparan sulfate (HS) is a sulfated glycosaminoglycan located on the surface and extracellular matrix of mammalian cells. HS is constituted of highly N-sulfated domains (NS domains) interrupted by lower sulfation domains. The arrangement of these domains dictates the function of HS which is mainly involved in binding proteins and regulating their biological activities. Heparin, a heparan sulfate analogue present in mast cells, resembles the NS domains of HS but lacks the alternating high and low sulfation architecture. Because the NS domains that range up to hexadecasaccharide in size are the main protein binders, heparin has been used as a model for HS in protein binding studies. Heparan sulfate, however, is the more physiologically relevant modulator of growth factor-receptor interactions. In this work, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC-MS) were used to compare the compositions of affinity-purified heparin and HS octasaccharides with anticoagulant activities versus library octasaccharides. The fine structures of the biologically active HS compositions were then compared against those of library octasaccharides using low-energy collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry. This approach confirmed isomeric enrichment of these compositions and, most importantly, produces ions diagnostic of their biological activity.
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- Hicham Naimy
- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, 670 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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The functions of heparan sulfate (HS) depend on the expression of structural domains that interact with protein partners. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) exhibit a high degree of polydispersity in their composition, chain length, sulfation, acetylation, and epimerization patterns. It is essential for the understanding of GAG biochemistry to produce detailed structural information as a function of spatial and temporal factors in biological systems. Toward this end, we developed a set of procedures to extract GAGs from various rat organ tissues and examined and compared HS expression levels using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Here we demonstrate detailed variations in HS GAG chains as a function of organ location. These studies shed new light on the structural variation of GAG chains with respect to average length, disaccharide composition, and expression of low abundance structural epitopes, including unsubstituted amino groups and lyase-resistant oligosaccharides. The data show the presence of a disaccharide with an unsubstituted amino group that is endogenous and widely expressed in mammalian organ tissues.
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- Xiaofeng Shi
- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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Chen S, Xu J, Xue C, Dong P, Sheng W, Yu G, Chai W. Sequence determination of a non-sulfated glycosaminoglycan-like polysaccharide from melanin-free ink of the squid Ommastrephes bartrami by negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. Glycoconj J 2008; 25:481-92. [PMID: 18219573 DOI: 10.1007/s10719-007-9096-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2007] [Revised: 11/22/2007] [Accepted: 11/29/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
A non-sulfated polysaccharide was isolated from the ink sac of squid Ommastrephes bartrami after removal of the melanin granules. The carbohydrate sequence of this polysaccharide was assigned by negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation of the oligosaccharide fractions produced by partial acid hydrolysis of the polysaccharide. The structural determination was completed by NMR for assignment of anomeric configuration and confirmation of linkage information and it was unambiguously identified as a glycosaminoglycan-like polysaccharide containing a glucuronic acid-fucose (GlcA-Fuc) disaccharide repeat in the main chain and a N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) branch at Fuc position 3: -[3GlcAbeta1-4(GalNAcalpha1-3)Fucalpha1](n)-. Partial hydrolysis of the polysaccharide to obtain several oligosaccharide fractions with different numbers of the repeating unit assisted the assignment. In the negative-ion tandem mass spectrometric analysis, the unique (0,2)A type fragmentation was important to establish the presence of a 4-linked fucose in the main polysaccharide chain and a GalNAc branch at the Fuc position-3 of the disaccharide repeat.
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- Shiguo Chen
- College of Food Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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Chai W, Piskarev VE, Mulloy B, Liu Y, Evans PG, Osborn HMI, Lawson AM. Analysis of chain and blood group type and branching pattern of sialylated oligosaccharides by negative ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2007; 78:1581-92. [PMID: 16503611 DOI: 10.1021/ac051606e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
We previously reported sequence determination of neutral oligosaccharides by negative ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry on a quadrupole-orthogonal time-of-flight instrument with high sensitivity and without the need of derivatization. In the present report, we extend our strategies to sialylated oligosaccharides for analysis of chain and blood group types together with branching patterns. A main feature in the negative ion mass spectrometry approach is the unique double glycosidic cleavage induced by 3-glycosidic substitution, producing characteristic D-type fragments which can be used to distinguish the type 1 and type 2 chains, the blood group related Lewis determinants, 3,6-disubstituted core branching patterns, and to assign the structural details of each of the branches. Twenty mono- and disialylated linear and branched oligosaccharides were used for the investigation, and the sensitivity achieved is in the femtomole range. To demonstrate the efficacy of the strategy, we have determined a novel complex disialylated and monofucosylated tridecasaccharide that is based on the lacto-N-decaose core. The structure and sequence assignment was corroborated by methylation analysis and 1H NMR spectroscopy.
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- Wengang Chai
- MRC Glycosciences Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Northwick Park and St Mark's Campus, Harrow, Middlesex, UK.
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Yu G, Zhao X, Yang B, Ren S, Guan H, Zhang Y, Lawson AM, Chai W. Sequence determination of sulfated carrageenan-derived oligosaccharides by high-sensitivity negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2007; 78:8499-505. [PMID: 17165845 DOI: 10.1021/ac061416j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation is assessed for sequence determination of multiply sulfated oligosaccharide fragments of carrageenan obtained from partial depolymerization of the polysaccharides by either enzymatic digestion or mild acid hydrolysis. Carrageenan oligosaccharides with homogeneous disaccharide compositions were used to establish their fragmentation pattern, which was then applied to sequence determination of unusual oligosaccharides with either "hybrid" biose compositions or odd-numbered residues. As sulfate groups are labile, sulfate loss during collision-induced association was prevented by sodium adduction. The product ion spectra of [M - Na]- (where M represents the sodium salt of oligosaccharides) feature an extensive series of B- and C-type glycosidic cleavages, whereas the Y-type cleavage occurs mainly at the sulfated residues. The assignment of reducing or nonreducing terminal fragments was assisted by oligosaccharide reduction and the product ion spectra of the derived alditols. Due to the anionic nature of the sulfate present, high-sensitivity detection (1-5 pmol, using a hexasaccharide as an example) was obtained.
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- Guangli Yu
- Institute of Marine Drug and Food, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China
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Hamza D, Lucas R, Feizi T, Chai W, Bonnaffé D, Lubineau A. First Synthesis of Heparan Sulfate Tetrasaccharides Containing both N-Acetylated and N-Unsubstituted Glucosamine-Search for Putative 10E4 Epitopes. Chembiochem 2006; 7:1856-8. [PMID: 17051654 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Daniel Hamza
- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Multifonctionnelle, Equipe de Glycochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay, UMR CNRS-UPS 8182, Université Paris Sud 11, Bât. 420, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Zhang Z, Yu G, Zhao X, Liu H, Guan H, Lawson AM, Chai W. Sequence analysis of alginate-derived oligosaccharides by negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2006; 17:621-630. [PMID: 16503152 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2005] [Revised: 01/06/2006] [Accepted: 01/06/2006] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (ES-MS/MS) with collision-induced dissociation (CID) is attempted for sequence determination of alginate oligosaccharides, derived from polyanionic alginic acid, polymannuronate, and polyguluronate by partial depolymerization using either alginate lyase or mild acid hydrolysis. Sixteen homo- and hetero-oligomeric fragments were obtained after fractionation by gel-filtration and strong anion exchange high performance liquid chromatography. The product-ion spectra of these alginate oligosaccharides were dominated by intense B-, C-, Y-, and Z-type ions together with (0,2)A- and (2,5)A-ions of lower intensities. Internal mannuronate residues (M) produce weak but specific decarboxylated Z(int)-ions (Z(int) - 44 Da; int: denotes internal), which can be used for distinction of M and a guluronate residue (G) at an internal position. A reducing terminal M or G, although neither gives rise to a specific ion, can be identified by differences in the intensity ratio of fragment ions of the reducing terminal residue [(2,5)A(red)]/[(0,4)A(red)] (red: denotes reducing terminal).
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- Zhenqing Zhang
- Institute of Marine Drug and Food, Ocean University of China, 26603, Shandory, China
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- Institute of Marine Drug and Food, Ocean University of China, 26603, Shandory, China.
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- Institute of Marine Drug and Food, Ocean University of China, 26603, Shandory, China
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- Institute of Marine Drug and Food, Ocean University of China, 26603, Shandory, China
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- Institute of Marine Drug and Food, Ocean University of China, 26603, Shandory, China
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- MRC Glycosciences Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Northwick Park and St. Mark's Campus, HA1 3UJ, Harrow, Middlesex, UK
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- MRC Glycosciences Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Northwick Park and St. Mark's Campus, HA1 3UJ, Harrow, Middlesex, UK.
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Minamisawa T, Suzuki K, Hirabayashi J. Systematic identification of N-acetylheparosan oligosaccharides by tandem mass spectrometric fragmentation. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2006; 20:267-74. [PMID: 16345123 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Recently, a useful procedure for the preparation of both even- and odd-numbered series of N-acetylheparosan (NAH) oligosaccharides was established. The present report describes findings when these NAH oligosaccharides were subjected to comparative mass spectrometry (MS)/MS fragmentation analysis by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)-LIFT-time-of-flight (TOF)/TOF-MS/MS, and electrospray ionization (ESI) collision-induced dissociation (CID) MS/MS. The resultant fragment ions were systematically assigned to elucidate fragmentation characteristics. In the MALDI-LIFT-MS/MS experiments, all the NAH oligosaccharides underwent unique glycosidic cleavages that included B-Y ion cleavages (nomenclature system of Domon and Costello, Glycoconjugate J. 1988; 5: 397) at the C-1 side, and C-Z ion cleavages at the C-4 side, with respect to glucuronic acid (GlcA). In addition, (0,2)A and/or (0,2)X cross-ring cleavages were observed for relatively small oligosaccharides. The former observation clearly reflects the occurrence of a GlcA-N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) alternating structure of NAH, while the latter feature implies the occurrence of the -beta-1-4-glucuronide linkage. Extensive glycosidic cleavages were also observed in the ESI-CID-MS/MS fragmentation, though cleavage specificity was less evident than in the case of MALDI-LIFT-TOF/TOF-MS/MS. The information obtained in this study should be valuable for understanding both biosynthetic and degradation processes of NAH and its derivatives including heparin and heparan sulfate, as well as artificially modified NAH oligosaccharides.
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- Toshikazu Minamisawa
- Glycostructure Analysis Team, Research Center for Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central-2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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Wei Z, Lyon M, Gallagher JT. Distinct Substrate Specificities of Bacterial Heparinases against N-Unsubstituted Glucosamine Residues in Heparan Sulfate. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:15742-8. [PMID: 15705564 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m501102200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The rare N-unsubstituted glucosamine (GlcNH(3)(+)) residues in heparan sulfate have important biological and pathophysiological roles. In this study, four GlcNH(3)(+)-containing disaccharides were obtained from partially de-N-sulfated forms of heparin and the N-sulfated K5 polysaccharide by digestion with combined heparinases I, II, and III. These were identified as DeltaHexA-GlcNH(3)(+),DeltaHexA-GlcNH(3)(+)(6S),DeltaHexA(2S)-GlcNH(3)(+), and DeltaHexA(2S)-GlcNH(3)(+)(6S). Digestions with individual enzymes revealed that heparinase I did not cleave at GlcNH(3)(+) residues; however, heparinases II and III showed selective and distinct activities. Heparinase II generated DeltaHexA-GlcNH(3)(+)(6S),DeltaHexA(2S)-GlcNH(3)(+), and DeltaHexA(2S)-GlcNH(3)(+)(6S) disaccharides, whereas heparinase III yielded only the DeltaHexA-GlcNH(3)(+) unit. Thus, the action of heparinase II requires O-sulfation, whereas heparinase III acts only on the corresponding non-sulfated unit. These striking distinctions in substrate specificities of heparinases could be used to isolate oligosaccharides with novel sequences of GlcNH(3)(+) residues. Finally, heparinases were used to identify and quantify GlcNH(3)(+)-containing disaccharides in native bovine kidney and porcine intestinal mucosal heparan sulfates. The relatively high content of O-sulfated GlcNH(3)(+)-disaccharides in kidney HS raises questions about how these sequences are generated.
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- Zheng Wei
- Cancer Research UK and the University of Manchester Department of Medical Oncology, Christie Hospital National Health Service Trust, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX, United Kingdom
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