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SOFT MATTER
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages 2775-2786Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm07036g
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- EU [228980, 246513]
- RECAMO [CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0101]
- Ministry of Defense, Czech Republic [FVZ0000604]
- Czech Science Foundation [GA CR 203/09/0857]
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [NIH-NIGMS/5R01 GM024349-25]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM024349] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The field of microbial proteomics has currently experienced a boom in the discovery of glycosylated proteins of various pathogenic bacteria as potential mediators of host-pathogen interactions. The presence of glycoproteins has recently been discovered in a Gram-negative pathogenic bacterium Francisella tularensis, utilizing glycoprotein detection and isolation techniques in combination with mass spectrometry. The isolation of glycoproteins is a prerequisite for their subsequent mass-spectrometric identification. Current glycoprotein isolation/enrichment methods comprise lectin affinity chromatography, aminophenylboronic acid and hydrazide-based enrichment. The use of magnetic microspheres containing functional groups is nowadays among state-of-art separation methodologies owing to an ease of manipulation, a speed of separation, and a minimum of non-specific protein adsorption. In the present study, novel magnetic hydrazide-modified poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) microspheres were developed using a multi-step swelling and polymerization method with subsequent precipitation of magnetic iron oxides within the pores of the particles. The microspheres had a regular shape, size of 4 mu m and contained 0.18 mmol hydrazide groups per g; the magnetic microspheres were employed for specific enrichment of Francisella tularensis glycoproteins. Effectiveness of the newly prepared magnetic microspheres for glycoprotein enrichment was proved by comparison with commercial hydrazide-functionalized microparticles.
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