Capillary Electrophoresis-Based N-Glycosylation Analysis in the Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Fields.

Glycomics has a growing interest in the biopharmaceutical industry and biomedical research requiring new high-performance and high-sensitivity bioanalytical tools. Analysis of N-glycosylation is very important during the development of protein therapeutics and it also plays a key role in biomarker discovery. The most frequently used glycoanalytical methods are capillary electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. In this chapter, the capillary electrophoresis-based N-linked carbohydrate analysis methods are conferred with emphasis on its use in the biopharmaceutical and biomedical fields.