Enhancing glycan isomer separations with metal ions and positive and negative polarity ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry analyses

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• 作者：Xueyun Zheng ; Xing Zhang ; Nathaniel S. Schocker…
• 关键词：Ion mobility spectrometry ; Mass spectrometry ; Glycans ; O ; Glycans ; Isomers
• 刊名：Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：409
• 期：2
• 页码：467-476
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Analytical Chemistry; Biochemistry, general; Laboratory Medicine; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Food Science; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1618-2650
• 卷排序：409

文摘

Glycomics has become an increasingly important field of research since glycans play critical roles in biology processes ranging from molecular recognition and signaling to cellular communication. Glycans often conjugate with other biomolecules, such as proteins and lipids, and alter their properties and functions, so glycan characterization is essential for understanding the effects they have on cellular systems. However, the analysis of glycans is extremely difficult due to their complexity and structural diversity (i.e., the number and identity of monomer units, and configuration of their glycosidic linkages and connectivities). In this work, we coupled ion mobility spectrometry with mass spectrometry (IMS-MS) to characterize glycan standards and biologically important isomers of synthetic αGal-containing O-glycans including glycotopes of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is the causative agent of Chagas disease. IMS-MS results showed significant differences for the glycan structural isomers when analyzed in positive and negative polarity and complexed with different metal cations. These results suggest that specific metal ions or ion polarities could be used to target and baseline separate glycan isomers of interest with IMS-MS.