Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 433, Issue 1, Pages 65-69Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2012.10.015
Keywords
Enzymatic digestion; Microwave; Endo H; N-Glycan; Cancer
Funding
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [03IP511]
- Foundation of Pathobiochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics
- Sonnenfeld Foundation
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Sample preparation is the rate-limiting step in glycan analysis workflows. Among all of the steps, enzymatic digestions, which are usually performed overnight, are the most time-consuming. In the current study, we report an economical and fast preparation of N-glycans from serum, including microwave-assisted enzymatic digestion in the absence of denaturing chemicals and solvents during the release. To this end, we used a household microwave oven to accelerate both pronase and endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H (Endo H) digestions. Purification was then performed using self-made SP20SS and carbon tips. We were able to prepare samples in 55 min instead of 21 h. Finally, the method was applied in the context of oncological biomarker discovery exemplarily to ovarian and colon cancer. We observed a significant downregulation of sialylated hybrid structures in ovarian cancer samples using capillary electrophoresis-laser-induced fluorescence (CE-LIF). Furthermore, sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, was also included in the study to understand whether the changes observed in ovarian cancer patients were due to the cancer itself or to the inflammation that usually accompanies its development. Because sialylated hybrid structures were upregulated in sepsis samples, the downregulation of these structures in ovarian cancer is specific to the cancer itself and, therefore, could be used as a biomarker. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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