Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States.
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2022 Mar 2;33(3):436-445. doi: 10.1021/jasms.1c00288. Epub 2022 Feb 14.
Glycan structure identification is essential to understanding the roles of glycans in various biological processes. Previously, we developed GlycoDeNovo, a algorithm for reconstructing glycan topologies from tandem mass spectra (MS/MS). In this work, we introduce GlycoDeNovo2 that contains two major improvements to GlycoDeNovo. First, we use the precursor mass measured for a peak that likely corresponds to a glycan to determine its potential compositions, which are used to constrain the search space, enable parallel computation, and hence speed up topology reconstruction. Second, we developed a procedure to calculate the empirical -value of a reconstructed topology candidate. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of GlycoDeNovo2.
糖链结构鉴定对于理解糖链在各种生物过程中的作用至关重要。我们之前开发了 GlycoDeNovo,这是一种从串联质谱(MS/MS)中重建糖链拓扑结构的算法。在这项工作中,我们引入了 GlycoDeNovo2,它包含了对 GlycoDeNovo 的两个主要改进。首先,我们使用可能对应于糖链的峰的前体质量来确定其潜在的组成,这用于约束搜索空间,实现并行计算,并因此加速拓扑重建。其次,我们开发了一种计算重建拓扑候选物经验值的程序。提供了实验结果来证明 GlycoDeNovo2 的有效性。