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ArticleJournal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2011

LC-MS(n) analysis of isomeric chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides using a chemical derivatization strategy.

Rongrong Huang, Vitor H Pomin, Joshua S Sharp

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Article in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Glycosaminoglycans as Polyelectrolytes: Charge, Interactions, and Applications.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2025
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  13. Analysis of Sulfate Patterns in Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharides by MSJournal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2018
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  14. Structural elucidation of fucosylated chondroitin sulfates from sea cucumber using FTICR-MS/MS.European journal of mass spectrometry (Chichester, England) · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rongrong HuangComplex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Vitor H Pomin
Joshua S Sharp
University of Georgia · US

Funding

ZINC DEFICIENCY &PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN RAT OLFACTORY BULBSP41RR005351 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI VENOT, ANDRE · 1989 to 2011
$18.4M
TR&D3. Approaches to Proteoglycan Function at Biochemical and Cellular LevelsP41GM103390 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI MOREMEN, KELLEY W. · 2012 to 2019
$14.5M
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR005351NCRR NIH HHS P41RR005351NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Improved methods for structural analyses of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are required to understand their functional roles in various biological processes. Major challenges in structural characterization of complex GAG oligosaccharides using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) include the accurate determination of the patterns of sulfation due to gas-phase losses of the sulfate groups upon collisional activation and inefficient on-line separation of positional sulfation isomers prior to MS/MS analyses. Here, a sequential chemical derivatization procedure including permethylation, desulfation, and acetylation was demonstrated to enable both on-line LC separation of isomeric mixtures of chondroitin sulfate (CS) oligosaccharides and accurate determination of sites of sulfation by MS(n). The derivatized oligosaccharides have sulfate groups replaced with acetyl groups, which are sufficiently stable to survive MS(n) fragmentation and reflect the original sulfation patterns. A standard reversed-phase LC-MS system with a capillary C18 column was used for separation, and MS(n) experiments using collision-induced dissociation (CID) were performed. Our results indicate that the combination of this derivatization strategy and MS(n) methodology enables accurate identification of the sulfation isomers of CS hexasaccharides with either saturated or unsaturated nonreducing ends. Moreover, derivatized CS hexasaccharide isomer mixtures become separable by LC-MS method due to different positions of acetyl modifications.

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AcetylationAmino SugarsAnimalsCattleChondroitin SulfatesChromatography, Reverse-PhaseIsomerismMaleMethylationSharksSheepTandem Mass SpectrometryAmino SugarsChondroitin Sulfates

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PMCPMC3187560
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