Huang Yining, Nie Yongxin, Boyes Barry, Orlando Ron
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA;
College of Life Science, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong Province, P.R. China; and.
J Biomol Tech. 2016 Sep;27(3):98-104. doi: 10.7171/jbt.16-2703-003. Epub 2016 Aug 3.
The ability to resolve glycans while attached to tryptic peptides would greatly facilitate glycoproteomics, as this would enable site-specific glycan characterization. Peptide/glycopeptide separations are typically performed using reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC), where retention is driven by hydrophobic interaction. As the hydrophilic glycans do not interact significantly with the RPLC stationary phase, it is difficult to resolve glycopeptides that differ only in their glycan structure, even when these differences are large. Alternatively, glycans interact extensively with the stationary phases used in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC), and consequently, differences in glycan structure have profound chromatographic shifts in this chromatographic mode. Here, we evaluate HILIC for the separation of isomeric glycopeptide mixtures that have the same peptide backbone but isomeric glycans. Hydrophilic functional groups on both the peptide and the glycan interact with the HILIC stationary phase, and thus, changes to either of these moieties can alter the chromatographic behavior of a glycopeptide. The interactive processes permit glycopeptides to be resolved from each other based on differences in their amino acid sequences and/or their attached glycans. The separations of glycans in HILIC are sufficient to permit resolution of isomeric N-glycan structures, such as sialylated N-glycan isomers differing in α2-3 and α2-6 linkages, while these glycans remain attached to peptides.
在胰蛋白酶肽段上连接聚糖时解析聚糖的能力将极大地促进糖蛋白质组学研究,因为这将实现位点特异性聚糖表征。肽/糖肽分离通常使用反相液相色谱(RPLC)进行,其中保留作用由疏水相互作用驱动。由于亲水性聚糖与RPLC固定相的相互作用不显著,因此即使差异很大,也难以分离仅聚糖结构不同的糖肽。另外,聚糖与亲水作用色谱(HILIC)中使用的固定相有广泛相互作用,因此,在这种色谱模式下,聚糖结构的差异会导致显著的色谱峰位移。在此,我们评估HILIC用于分离具有相同肽主链但聚糖异构的异构糖肽混合物。肽和聚糖上的亲水性官能团都与HILIC固定相相互作用,因此,这两个部分中任何一个的变化都可能改变糖肽的色谱行为。这些相互作用过程使得糖肽能够根据其氨基酸序列和/或连接的聚糖的差异彼此分离。HILIC中聚糖的分离足以实现异构N-聚糖结构的分离,例如α2-3和α2-6连接不同的唾液酸化N-聚糖异构体,同时这些聚糖仍与肽相连。