Applicability of Phenylhydrazine Labeling for Structural Studies of Fucosylated N-Glycans

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LATTOVÁ Erika SKŘIČKOVÁ Jana ZDRÁHAL Zbyněk

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Anal. Chem.
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Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Web https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01321
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01321
Keywords TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY; DECAY FRAGMENTATION; PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLATION; FUCOSE; CORE
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Description Fucosylation is a common modification, and its site in glycans refers to different normal and pathological processes. Despite intensive research, there is still a lack of methods to discriminate unambiguously the fucose position in one-step. In this work, we propose utility of phenylhydrazine (PHN) labeling for structural studies of fucosylated N-glycans by tandem MALDI mass spectrometry (MS) in the positive ion mode. PHN-tag influences the production of specific ion types, and the MS/MS fragmentation pattern provides useful structural information. All types of core fucosylated N-glycans have produced two abundant ions consistent with B- and C-glycosidic cleavages corresponding to the loss of the FucGlcNAcPHN residue with a mass 457 and 441 Da from the parent ions. These types of fragment ions in N-glycans without a core fucose were associated with the loss of the GlcNAcPHN unit (311 and 295 Da), and fucose cleavage followed the loss of the chitobiose residue. Since diagnostic useful cleavages produce peaks with significant intensities, this approach is also beneficial for rapid recognition of antenna from core fucosylation in glycans detected with low abundances. Moreover, in multifucosylated glycans, this type of labeling allows to distinguish how many fucose residues are on the specific antenna and provides additional information on the topology of N-glycans, such as type of antennarity or identification of bisecting moiety. The practical applicability of the approach is demonstrated on the analysis of multifucosylated N-glycans detected with lower abundances in lung cancer samples.
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