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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2020

Quantification of the α2-6 Sialic Acid Linkage in Branched N-Glycan Structures with Capillary Nanogel Electrophoresis.

Lloyd Bwanali, Cassandra L Crihfield, Ebenezer O Newton, Victoria R Zeger, Srikanth Gattu, Lisa A Holland

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Isomer-Specific Monitoring of SialylatedFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lloyd BwanaliC. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry , West Virginia University , Morgantown , West Virginia 26506 , United States.
Cassandra L CrihfieldC. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry , West Virginia University , Morgantown , West Virginia 26506 , United States.
Ebenezer O NewtonC. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry , West Virginia University , Morgantown , West Virginia 26506 , United States.
Victoria R ZegerC. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry , West Virginia University , Morgantown , West Virginia 26506 , United States.
Srikanth GattuC. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry , West Virginia University , Morgantown , West Virginia 26506 , United States.
Lisa A HollandC. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry , West Virginia University , Morgantown , West Virginia 26506 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7534-6810
West Virginia University · US

Funding

Phospholipid Microscale Glycan Sequencing: Linking Structure to Antibody FunctionR01GM114330 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI HOLLAND, LISA A · 2015 to 2019
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114330
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sialylation and sialic acid linkage in N-glycans are markers of disease but are analytically challenging to quantify. A capillary electrophoresis method is reported that integrates a unique combination of enzymes and lectins to modify sialylated N-glycans in real time in the capillary so that N-glycan structures containing α2-6-linked sialic acid are easily separated, detected, and quantified. In this study, N-glycans were sequentially cleaved by enzymes at the head of the separation capillary so that the presence of α2-6-linked sialic acids corresponded to a shift in the analyte migration time in a manner that enabled interpretation of the N-glycan structure. Following injection, only afucosylated N-glycan structures were passed through enzyme zones that contained α2-3 sialidase, followed by β1-3,4 galactosidase, which cleaved any terminal α2-3-linked sialic acid and underlying galactose yielding a terminal N-acetyl glucosamine. With this treatment complete, a third zone of α2-3,6,8 sialidase converted the remaining α2-6-linked sialic acid to terminal galactose. With these enzyme processing steps the α2-6-linked sialic acid residues on an N-glycan correlated directly to the number of terminal galactose residues that remained. The number of terminal galactose residues could be interpreted as a stepwise decrease in the migration time. Complex N-glycans from α-1-acid glycoprotein were analyzed using this approach, revealing that a limited number of α2-6-linked sialic acids were present with biantennary, triantennary, and tetraantennary N-glycans of α-1-acid glycoprotein generally containing 0 or 1 α2-6-linked sialic acid.

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Electrophoresis, CapillaryHumansMolecular StructureN-Acetylneuraminic AcidNanogelsPolysaccharidesN-Acetylneuraminic AcidNanogelsPolysaccharides

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PMID31829566
PMCPMC8631463
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