Abstract
Analysis of carbohydrate structures is an integral part of understanding the structure-function relationship of glycans as well as whole glycoproteins. Glycan profiling by HPLC with fluorescence detection is a powerful technique that sheds considerable light into understanding glycan structures. Profiling of N-linked glycans by HPLC and mass spectrometry is well established. However procedures for profiling Ser/Thr-linked sugar chains are still a challenge since there is no enzyme capable of releasing the intact glycans. Simplistic profiling of O-linked sugar chains is possible only by the virtue of anthranilic acid (AA, 2-aminobenzoic acid, 2-AA) labeling chemistry (Anumula, Anal Biochem 457:31–37, 2014), which eliminates the need for intermediary isolation steps, e.g., desalting and chromatographic purification, for labeling. O-linked sugar chains were released by hydrazinolysis at 60 °C for 6 h. Hydrazine was evaporated, and sugar chains were N-acetylated and derivatized with 2-AA in the same reaction mixture and separated on an Amide-80 column. Such simple hydrazinolysis protocols should benefit not only the biotechnology industry but also academic laboratories for characterization of glycoproteins. Detailed structure analysis is possible with AA-labeled glycans using mass spectrometry and NMR.
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Anumula, K.R. (2019). Analysis of Ser/Thr-Linked Sugar Chains. In: Kannicht, C. (eds) Post-Translational Modification of Proteins. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1934. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9055-9_3
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