Integrated mass spectrometric strategy for characterizing the glycans from glycosphingolipids and glycoproteins: direct identification of sialyl Le(x) in mice |
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Authors: | Parry Simon Ledger Victoria Tissot Bérangère Haslam Stuart M Scott James Morris Howard R Dell Anne |
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Institution: | Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. |
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Abstract: | The current interest in applying systems biology approaches to studying an organism's form or function promises to reveal further insights into the role of glycosylation in cells and whole organisms. This has prompted the development of a rapid, sensitive method of profiling the glycan component of both glycosphingolipids and glycoproteins from a single sample. Here we report a new mass spectrometric screening strategy for characterizing glycosphingolipid-derived oligosaccharides, which can be integrated into an existing highly sensitive glycoprotein glycomics strategy. Using ceramide glycanase to release the glycans from glycosphingolipids, this method provides a reliable profile of the glycosphingolipid-derived glycans present in a sample and has revealed new glycan structures. Glycoproteins are also efficiently recovered using this method, allowing the subsequent analysis of glycoprotein-derived glycans by mass spectrometry. The high sensitivity of this glycomic screening method allowed us to directly characterize the sialyl Le(x) epitope from mouse brain for the first time, where it was observed on an O-mannose structure. Thus, we present a mass spectrometric method that allows glycomic screening of N- and O-glycans as well as glycosphingolipid-derived glycans from a single tissue. |
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Keywords: | glycan / glycosphingolipid / glycoprotein / mass spectrometry / method |
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