Abstract
Glycoproteins typically exist as a diverse population of glycoforms, which can consist of a great number of different glycan structures (including structural isomers) that vary in their degree of occupancy at given glycosylation sites. Hence, the detailed characterization of such glycans can be a very demanding task. Liquid chromatography in combination with mass spectrometric techniques can provide a fast and sensitive tool for the analysis of these structurally complex molecules. Here we describe a sensitive method that employs capillary normal-phase HPLC coupled offline to MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS/MS for the detailed characterization of enzymatically released N-glycans. The normal-phase chromatography allows the separation of some isobaric glycan structures and analysis of the glycans by MALDI high-energy CID gives sequence, linkage and branching information.
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Tryfona, T., Stephens, E. (2010). Analysis of Carbohydrates on Proteins by Offline Normal-Phase Liquid Chromatography MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS/MS. In: Cutillas, P., Timms, J. (eds) LC-MS/MS in Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 658. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-780-8_8
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