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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 79, Issue 23, Pages 8891-8899Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac0707535
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Detailed structural analysis of glycoproteins requires methods capable of isolating glycopeptides from tryptic digests of purified glycoproteins and complex protein mixtures. Here, we describe the selective and reproducible isolation of glycopeptides from a peptide mixture using ion-pairing normal-phase chromatography (IP-NPLC). The addition of inorganic monovalent ions in normal-phase chromatography appears to increase the hydrophobicity difference between peptides and glycopeptides, allowing for more efficient separation. Our data show that IP-NPLC effectively enriches glycopeptides from a tryptic digest of ribonuclease B, bovine fetuin, and a complex mixture of glycoproteins, when compared with normal-phase chromatography alone. The results of the IP-NPLC experiments can be explained using the Wimley-White water/octanol free energy scale to illustrate the hydrophobicity difference of nonglycosylated peptides with and without ion-pairing. We believe that IP-NPLC will be an important tool in glycoprotein characterization and glycoproteomic studies.
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