One-pipeline approach achieving glycoprotein identification and obtaining intact glycopeptide information by tandem mass spectrometry

Mol Biosyst. 2010 Dec;6(12):2417-22. doi: 10.1039/c0mb00024h. Epub 2010 Oct 1.

Abstract

A novel one-pipeline approach is reported, which can demonstrate glycoprotein identification and obtain intact glycosylation information after glycopeptide-level enrichment, without de-glycosylation. The proposed workflow has two enrichment steps plus two proteolytic processes: enriched glycoproteins were digested to peptides by Lys-C, and then enriched again and secondly digested by trypsin. In the resulting mixture, with a reasonable complexity, intact glycopeptides could be preserved and utilized informatively for glycosylation analysis, and non-glycopeptides for protein identification. In both standard protein mixture tests and real sample analysis, the resulting glycopeptides and non-glycopeptides were proved to play their expected roles, thus more confident protein glycosylation information was obtained.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Glycopeptides / analysis*
  • Glycopeptides / chemistry
  • Glycoproteins / analysis*
  • Glycoproteins / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Reference Standards
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry / methods*

Substances

  • Glycopeptides
  • Glycoproteins