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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 87, Issue 17, Pages 8957-8963Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02218
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81473179]
- Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professor Research Funding [SR13200113]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) [YX13200111]
- [BM2013003]
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Low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) are polydisperse and microheterogenous mixtures of polysaccharides used as anticoagulant drugs. Profiling analysis is important for obtaining deeper insights into the structure of LMWHs. Previous oligosaccharide mapping methods are relatively low resolution and are unable to show an entire picture of the structural complexity of LMWHs. In the current study a profiling method was developed relying on multiple heart-cutting, two-dimensional, ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography with quadruple time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This represents an efficient, automated, and robust approach for profiling LMWHs. Using size-exclusion chromatography and ion-pairing reversed-phase chromatography in a two-dimensional separation, LMW components of different sizes and LMW components of the same size but with different charges and polarities can be resolved, providing a more complete picture of a LMWH. Structural information on each component was then obtained with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. More than 80 and 120 oligosaccharides were observed and unambiguously assigned from the LMWHs, nadroparin and enoxaparin, respectively. This method might be useful for quality control of LMWHs and as a powerful tool for heparin-related glycomics.
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