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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 2248-2260Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr101082c
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N-glycosylation; glycopeptides; ZIC-HILIC SPE; nanoESI MS; CID
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Sonderforschungsbereich 492, Z2]
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Protein glycosylation was explored by direct nanoESI MS and MS/MS analysis of ZIC-HILIC-enriched proteolytic glycopeptides without further separation or purification. In a previous publication, we demonstrated that a direct MS-based analysis of proteolytic glycopeptides is feasible for a number of proteins (Henning, S. et al. J. Mass Spectrom. 2007, 42, 1415-21). This method has now been refined for two aspects: (1) separation of glycopeptides by use of ZIC-HILIC SPE and (2) the use of unspecific proteases like thermolysin, elastase, or a trypsin/chymotrypsin mixture leading per se to a mass-based separation, that is, small nonglycosylated peptides and almost exclusively glycopeptides at higher m/z values. Furthermore, the glycopeptides produced by the above proteases in general contain short peptide backbones thus improving-probably due to their higher hydrophilicity-the ZIC-HILIC-based separation. The combination of unspecific proteolysis, glycopeptide separation, and their direct MS analysis was successfully accomplished for probing glycoproteins carrying high-mannose type (ribonuclease B), neutral (asialofetuin), and acidic (haptoglobin and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein) complex type glycans as well as for glycopeptides derived from glycoprotein mixtures and, finally, for exploring the glycosylation of a human IgG preparation. Our results show that the presented method is a fast, facile, and inexpensive procedure for the elucidation of protein N-glycosylation.
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