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Bechtella L, Chunsheng J, Fentker K, Ertürk GR, Safferthal M, Polewski Ł, Götze M, Graeber SY, Vos GM, Struwe WB, Mall MA, Mertins P, Karlsson NG, Pagel K. Ion mobility-tandem mass spectrometry of mucin-type O-glycans. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2611. [PMID: 38521783 PMCID: PMC10960840 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46825-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024] Open
Abstract
The dense O-glycosylation of mucins plays an important role in the defensive properties of the mucus hydrogel. Aberrant glycosylation is often correlated with inflammation and pathology such as COPD, cancer, and Crohn's disease. The inherent complexity of glycans and the diversity in the O-core structure constitute fundamental challenges for the analysis of mucin-type O-glycans. Due to coexistence of multiple isomers, multidimensional workflows such as LC-MS are required. To separate the highly polar carbohydrates, porous graphitized carbon is often used as a stationary phase. However, LC-MS workflows are time-consuming and lack reproducibility. Here we present a rapid alternative for separating and identifying O-glycans released from mucins based on trapped ion mobility mass spectrometry. Compared to established LC-MS, the acquisition time is reduced from an hour to two minutes. To test the validity, the developed workflow was applied to sputum samples from cystic fibrosis patients to map O-glycosylation features associated with disease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Leïla Bechtella
- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4‑6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4‑6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4‑6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4‑6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research (DZL), associated partner site, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4‑6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research (DZL), associated partner site, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health, 10178, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Life Sciences and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4‑6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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Moge B, Schindler B, Yeni O, Compagnon I. Fucose Migration Pathways Identified Using Infrared Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202300538. [PMID: 36825496 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202300538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Fucose is a ubiquitous monosaccharide associated to major classes of glycans. A main obstacle to the sequencing of fucosylated glycans is the migration of fucose, which leads to misinterpretations in mass spectrometry analysis. Here, using ion vibrational spectroscopy, we resolve the structure of fucosylated fragments of Lewis and blood group H antigen trisaccharides and we unveil the position and linkage of the fucose after migration. Our findings demonstrate that the structure of fragment ions resulting from fucose migration can be characterized. Additionally, we report a new type of fucose migration, which does not feature any change of mass and therefore had not been previously reported: it consists of a local migration where the fucose changes its position remaining on the initial residue. Our approach allows the characterization of glycans, an essential step to interpret glycomics data, as well as to understand underlying processes at play in mass spectrometry.
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- Baptiste Moge
- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
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Sastre Toraño J, Gagarinov IA, Vos GM, Broszeit F, Srivastava AD, Palmer M, Langridge JI, Aizpurua‐Olaizola O, Somovilla VJ, Boons G. Ion‐Mobility Spectrometry Can Assign Exact Fucosyl Positions in Glycans and Prevent Misinterpretation of Mass‐Spectrometry Data After Gas‐Phase Rearrangement. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201909623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Javier Sastre Toraño
- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Waters Corporation Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road SK9 4AX Wilmslow UK
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryUtrecht University Universiteitsweg 99 3584 CG Utrecht The Netherlands
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of ChemistryUniversity of Georgia 315 Riverbend Road Athens GA 30602 USA
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Sastre Toraño J, Gagarinov IA, Vos GM, Broszeit F, Srivastava AD, Palmer M, Langridge JI, Aizpurua-Olaizola O, Somovilla VJ, Boons GJ. Ion-Mobility Spectrometry Can Assign Exact Fucosyl Positions in Glycans and Prevent Misinterpretation of Mass-Spectrometry Data After Gas-Phase Rearrangement. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:17616-17620. [PMID: 31544998 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The fucosylation of glycans leads to diverse structures and is associated with many biological and disease processes. The exact determination of fucoside positions by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is complicated because rearrangements in the gas phase lead to erroneous structural assignments. Here, we demonstrate that the combined use of ion-mobility MS and well-defined synthetic glycan standards can prevent misinterpretation of MS/MS spectra and incorrect structural assignments of fucosylated glycans. We show that fucosyl residues do not migrate to hydroxyl groups but to acetamido moieties of N-acetylneuraminic acid as well as N-acetylglucosamine residues and nucleophilic sites of an anomeric tag, yielding specific isomeric fragment ions. This mechanistic insight enables the characterization of unique IMS arrival-time distributions of the isomers which can be used to accurately determine fucosyl positions in glycans.
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- Javier Sastre Toraño
- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Waters Corporation, Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road, SK9 4AX, Wilmslow, UK
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- Waters Corporation, Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road, SK9 4AX, Wilmslow, UK
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584, CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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Verkhnyatskaya SA, de Vries AH, Douma‐de Vries E, Sneep RJL, Walvoort MTC. Direct and Regioselective Di-α-fucosylation on the Secondary Rim of β-Cyclodextrin. Chemistry 2019; 25:6722-6727. [PMID: 30801812 PMCID: PMC6563713 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201806090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2018] [Revised: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
A straightforward glycosylation method is described to regio- and stereoselectively introduce two α-l-fucose moieties directly to the secondary rim of β-cyclodextrin. Using NMR and MS fragmentation studies, the nonasaccharide structure was determined, which was also visualized using molecular dynamics simulations. The reported glycosylation method proved to be robust on gram-scale, and may be generally applied to directly glycosylate β-cyclodextrins to make well-defined multivalent glycoclusters.
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- Stella A. Verkhnyatskaya
- Stratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 79747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 79747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 79747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 79747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 79747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
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