Monolithic capillary column based glycoproteomic reactor for high-sensitive analysis of N-glycoproteome

Anal Chem. 2013 Mar 5;85(5):2847-52. doi: 10.1021/ac400315n. Epub 2013 Feb 20.

Abstract

Despite the importance of protein N-glycosylation in a series of biological processes, in-depth characterization of protein glycosylation is still a challenge due to the high complexity of biological samples and the lacking of highly sensitive detection technologies. We developed a monolithic capillary column based glycoproteomic reactor enabling high-sensitive mapping of N-glycosylation sites from minute amounts of sample. Unlike the conventional proteomic reactors with only strong-cation exchange or hydrophilic-interaction chromatography columns, this novel glycoproteomic reactor was composed of an 8 cm long C12 hydrophobic monolithic capillary column for protein digestion and a 6 cm long organic-silica hybrid hydrophilic monolithic capillary column for glycopeptides enrichment and deglycosylation, which could complete whole-sample preparation including protein purification/desalting, tryptic digestion, enrichment, and deglycosylation of glycopeptides within about 3 h. The developed reactor exhibited high detection sensitivity in mapping of N-glycosylation sites by detection limit of horseradish peroxidase as low as 2.5 fmol. This reactor also demonstrated the ability in complex sample analysis, and in total, 486 unique N-glycosylation sites were reliably mapped in three replicate analyses of a protein sample extracted from ∼10(4) HeLa cells.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Glycoproteins / chemistry
  • Glycoproteins / metabolism*
  • Glycosylation
  • HeLa Cells
  • Horseradish Peroxidase / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
  • Models, Molecular
  • Protein Conformation
  • Proteolysis
  • Proteomics / instrumentation*
  • Trypsin / metabolism

Substances

  • Glycoproteins
  • Horseradish Peroxidase
  • Trypsin