Isolation and identification of native membrane glycoproteins from living cell by concanavalin A-magnetic particle conjugates

The discovery, isolation, and subsequent identification of cell membrane glycoproteins involved in the structure and function of the cell surface are becoming more and more important. Here, concanavalin A-magnetic particle conjugates were employed to isolate the special membrane glycoproteins from living HepG-2 cells. The isolated glycoproteins were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry as well as annotated. A total of 37 membrane glycoproteins were identified, and 25 of them were ascertained to locate in the extracellular region. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.