Fibrinogen alpha chain O-glycopeptides as possible markers of urinary tract infection |
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Authors: | Pacchiarotta Tiziana Hensbergen Paul J Wuhrer Manfred van Nieuwkoop Cees Nevedomskaya Ekaterina Derks Rico J E Schoenmaker Bart Koeleman Carolien A M van Dissel Jaap Deelder André M Mayboroda Oleg A |
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Affiliation: | a Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Unit, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlandsb Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common bacterial infection leading to substantial morbidity and considerable health care expenditures across all ages. Here we present an exploratory UPLC-MS study of human urine in the context of febrile, complicated urinary tract infection aimed to reveal and identify possible markers of a host response on infection. A UPLC-MS based workflow, taking advantage of Ultra High Resolution (UHR) Qq-ToF-MS, and multivariate data handling were applied to a carefully selected group of 39 subjects with culture-confirmed febrile Escherichia coli UTI. Using a combination of unsupervised and supervised multivariate modeling we have pinpointed a number of peptides specific for UTI. An unequivocal structural identification of these peptides, as O-glycosylated fragments of the human fibrinogen alpha 1 chain, required MS2 and MS3 experiments on two different MS platforms: ESI-UHR-Qq-ToF and ESI-ion trap, a blast search and, finally, confirmation was achieved by matching experimental tandem mass spectra with those of custom synthesized candidate-peptides.In conclusion, exploiting non-targeted UPLC-MS based approach for the investigation of UTI related changes in urine, we have identified and structurally characterized unique O-glycopeptides, which are, to our knowledge, the first demonstration of O-glycosylation of human fibrinogen alpha 1-chain. |
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Keywords: | Urinary tract infection Fibrinogen Glycosylation E. coli Mass spectrometry |
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