糖蛋白/糖肽的分离富集方法*

蛋白质糖基化是一种重要的翻译后修饰,糖基化对蛋白质的结构和功能有着重要的影响。目前,作为蛋白质组学的一个组成部分,糖蛋白质组学是备受关注的研究热点。而从复杂的生物样品体系中富集糖蛋白/ 糖肽是蛋白质糖基化研究的重点和难点,本文就糖蛋白/糖肽分离富集方法的研究进展和应用作了简要概述。这些方法包括常用的凝集素亲和法、硼酸法、肼化学法和亲水作用法,还包括分子筛法、强阳离子交换法等新方法。     

基于ConA富集和LTQ-FT质谱鉴定的小鼠肝脏内质网N-糖蛋白质组研究

糖基化修饰是生物体内复杂和重要的蛋白质翻译后修饰方式之一.N-糖基化蛋白质在内质网中进行合成的过程中,所有的N-糖链都以甘露糖和葡萄糖结尾,而凝集素ConA对以甘露糖结尾的糖链有较高的亲和性,可以用来富集在内质网中合成的N-糖蛋白质.本文据此提出了一种基于内质网分离和凝集素ConA富集的复杂样品N-糖基化位点研究策略.通过使用高准确度的质谱线性离子阱-傅立叶变换回旋离子共振质谱对N-糖蛋白质进行鉴定,并对N-糖基化位点进行确定.我们采用模式生物C57BL/6J肝脏作为生物样本,在生物水平和质谱水平分别进行了3次重复,共鉴定了212个N-糖蛋白质的323个N-糖基化位点.在这些蛋白中,131个是Swissprot库中已确认的N-糖蛋白质.此方法富集的糖蛋白,糖型统一,有利于样品的分离和PNGaseF酶切作用,提高了鉴定的效率.对鉴定的212个N-糖蛋白质的定位和功能进行了分析,本文鉴定的N-糖蛋白质对现有的鼠肝N-糖蛋白质数据库进行了有效的补充.     

完整糖基化肽段的富集与质谱解析新技术研究进展

蛋白质糖基化是生物体内最重要的翻译后修饰之一,在蛋白质稳定性、细胞内和细胞间信号转导、激素活化或失活和免疫调节等生理过程和病理进程中发挥重要作用。而异常的蛋白质糖基化往往和多种疾病的发生发展密切相关,目前应用于临床检测的多种肿瘤生物标志物大多属于糖蛋白或者糖抗原。因此在组学层次系统分析蛋白质糖基化的变化对阐明生物体内糖基化修饰的调控机理和发现新型疾病标志物都非常重要。基于质谱的蛋白质组学技术为全面分析蛋白质及其修饰提供了有效的分析手段。在自下而上的蛋白质组学研究中,由于完整糖基化肽段同时存在性质各异的肽段骨架和糖链结构、糖肽的相对丰度和离子化效率较低以及糖基化修饰有高度异质性等特点,完整糖肽的分析比其他翻译后修饰更加困难。近年来,为了更全面、系统地分析蛋白质糖基化,研究人员发展了一些新技术,包括完整糖肽的富集技术、质谱的碎裂模式和数据采集模式、质谱数据的解析方法和定量策略等等,大力推进了该领域的研究水平,也为研究蛋白质糖基化相关的生物标志物提供了技术支持。该篇综述主要关注近年来基于质谱的糖蛋白质组学研究中的新进展,重点介绍针对完整N-和O-糖基化肽段的富集新技术和谱图解析新方法,并讨论其在肿瘤早期诊断方面的应用潜力。     

整体柱用于糖蛋白质分离富集研究新进展

蛋白质糖基化是最常见、最重要的蛋白质翻译后修饰之一,由糖链和多肽链以多种形式共价修饰而成.糖蛋白在生物体内种类繁多,分布广泛,具有重要的生理功能.复杂生物体系中糖蛋白的绝对丰度低,高丰度非糖蛋白质的存在对低丰度糖蛋白质产生夹带、包覆以至掩盖的作用,以现有的技术难以发现并分离鉴定大多数低丰度糖蛋白,已成为当前糖蛋白质组学...     

半胱氨酸基麦芽糖修饰亲水硅胶的制备及其对糖肽的富集

糖蛋白与糖肽在复杂生物体系中丰度一般较低,为了在糖蛋白质组学研究中深入和全面分析鉴定糖基化位点与糖链,通常需要进行富集前处理操作。该文设计并合成了一种半胱氨酸基麦芽糖修饰亲水硅胶分离介质(Cys-Mal@SiO_2),将其装填入固相萃取柱中制备新型亲水固相萃取柱。在以人免疫球蛋白G酶解液为样品进行富集鉴定时,Cys-Mal@SiO_2鉴定糖肽的质谱信号强度和信噪比比半胱氨酸修饰硅胶(Cys@SiO_2)、麦芽糖修饰硅胶(Mal@SiO_2)和商品化ZIC-HILIC更高。在复杂的鼠肝蛋白质提取物的糖蛋白质组学分析中,Cys-Mal@SiO_2共鉴定出1 551条糖肽,属于466个糖蛋白的906个N-糖基化位点,比Cys@SiO_2和Mal@SiO_2鉴定糖肽数、蛋白质数和N-糖基化位点数分别多211、67、127个和289、76、193个。将Cys-Mal@SiO_2成功应用于低丰度糖肽的选择性富集与鉴定,在糖蛋白质组学研究中体现出良好的应用潜力。     

化学生物学解析疾病中O-GlcNAc糖基化功能:研究工具与策略

O-连接β-N-乙酰葡糖胺(O-GlcNAc)糖基化是广泛存在于蛋白质丝/苏氨酸残基的翻译后修饰.这一动态、可逆单糖修饰以位点特异性方式影响底物蛋白的结构和生物学功能,参与调控几乎所有细胞生理过程和重大疾病的演进过程.随着研究深入,O-GlcNAc糖基化生物功能的系统解析需要更多特异、精准的研究工具和糖蛋白质组学研究策略.近年来,化学生物学领域开发了包括小分子糖探针、生物正交糖代谢标记物、化学酶法、特异性抗体和凝集素等多种O-GlcNAc糖基化分析工具和方法,以此为基础进一步发展了O-GlcNAc糖蛋白质组学研究策略.同时,借助高分辨质谱,大量蛋白质O-GlcNAc修饰位点得以鉴定,极大促进了位点特异性O-GlcNAc的生物功能研究.本文综述了近年来这一领域的研究进展,以期为更多化学工具的开发提供依据,为揭示O-GlcNAc糖基化在疾病演进中的功能提供新的研究思路和策略.     

功能化磁性纳米材料在糖蛋白及糖肽富集中的研究进展

蛋白质糖基化作为最重要的翻译后修饰之一,在生物体诸如细胞信号转导、蛋白质翻译调控、免疫应答等诸多生命过程中发挥重要作用。此外,蛋白质的异常糖基化还与肿瘤等疾病的发生发展密切相关,这为以糖蛋白为目标的疾病生物标志物的发现提供了可能。尽管质谱已经成为糖蛋白质组学的重要分析工具,但糖肽的低丰度和低电离效率使得其直接质谱分析仍面临挑战。在糖蛋白质组学研究中,从复杂的生物样品中富集糖蛋白和糖肽是重要的环节。磁性固相萃取(MSPE)是一种操作简单、成本低和萃取效率高的样品预处理方法。在磁性固相萃取中,磁性吸附剂是影响萃取效果的关键,将功能化磁性纳米材料作为吸附剂进行糖蛋白质组学研究已经得到广泛应用。该文综述了糖分子、离子液体、凝集素、硼酸亲和配体、金属有机框架、共价有机骨架等功能化磁性纳米材料的制备及其在糖蛋白及糖肽富集中的应用。上述功能化磁性纳米材料具有高比表面积、大量作用位点等特点,其富集机理包括亲水相互作用色谱、凝集素亲和作用色谱、硼酸化学法和肼化学法等,主要应用于血清、血浆、细胞、组织、唾液等样品的糖蛋白和糖肽的富集。该文引用了近十年来发表的约90篇源于科学引文索引(SCI)与中文核心期刊的相关论文,并于文末对磁性纳米材料在糖蛋白和糖肽富集领域的发展趋势进行了展望。     

利用亲水富集策略分析人血浆中N-糖基化蛋白及N-糖类型

蛋白质的N-糖基化是最重要的翻译后修饰之一,许多已知的血浆肿瘤诊断标志物及治疗靶标都是N-糖基化蛋白。针对血浆的糖蛋白质组研究有利于发现新的蛋白标志物。然而,血浆蛋白质浓度分布的动态范围非常宽,且同一位点上的糖链存在微观不均一性,影响了血浆中糖蛋白的鉴定效率。本文利用亲水材料ZIC-HILIC制备亲水富集柱分别对人血浆中的N-糖链和N-糖肽进行富集,并结合碱性反相色谱进行肽段的预分离和高准确度质谱分析,最终在健康人的血浆中鉴定到了299个糖基化蛋白、637个糖基化位点,并识别出31种不同的糖型。在这些鉴定到的糖基化位点中,新发现有107个N-糖基化位点(占总位点数的16.8%)。本方法操作简单,可以有效富集N-糖肽和N-糖,为在血浆中寻找糖蛋白和糖链生物标志物提供了可靠的手段。     

糖蛋白质组学中基于化学反应的富集方法研究进展

蛋白质糖基化是一种广泛存在的重要的蛋白质翻译后修饰,糖基化肽在总酶解肽中占的比例不超过5%,这使得糖肽的分离富集成为糖蛋白质组学研究发展的关键技术之一。在诸多糖蛋白质组富集技术中,化学方法是富集技术的主导,本文从化学反应的角度介绍糖基化蛋白质富集的技术进展。富集过程按照连接和释放分别讨论,在连接过程中,重点介绍硼酸化学法、肼化学法、胺化学法和肟点击法;在释放过程中,以N-糖蛋白的酶释放法和O-糖蛋白的β-消除法为主导,一并介绍了最新的氧化断裂释放的化学法。最后,讨论总体富集策略的发展现状。该文以糖蛋白富集的共价反应为核心,分析不同方法的优缺点以及各技术在糖蛋白质组学研究中的应用和贡献。     

基于固相萃取的微量糖蛋白糖基化修饰表征技术的建立

结合自制亲水固相萃取富集柱和生物质谱鉴定技术,实现了糖基化蛋白质核糖核酸酶B的糖含量测定、糖基化位点确认、聚糖富集及结构表征,以及不同糖型相对丰度分析。结果表明:其糖含量8.47%,糖基化位点为34位的Asn,糖链主要为5种高甘露糖型结构(Man5-9GlcNAc2)。所建立的HILIC富集技术,有利于针对微量生物样本,如生物工程药物糖蛋白及重要功能糖蛋白,开展位点特异性糖链结构解析,为糖蛋白质的药效或功能研究提供线索。     

共价有机骨架功能材料及其在糖肽选择性富集中的应用

蛋白质糖基化是生物体中最重要的翻译后修饰手段之一,糖蛋白/糖肽的有效分离和富集成为目前糖蛋白组学研究的首要问题。对于复杂的生物样本,糖蛋白的数量较少,酶解后大量高丰度非糖基化修饰肽的存在,使得低丰度糖肽的检测更加困难。因此,需要一些手段来有效地富集糖肽以提高其检测丰度,发展高选择性的糖肽富集材料及方法就成为在分子水平上有效地监测糖蛋白或糖肽的重要途径。相对于传统的糖肽富集材料,共价有机骨架材料具有比表面积大和可修饰位点丰富的优点,在糖肽富集领域具有很大的应用潜力。该文制备了一种新型的共价有机骨架材料(O-T-D-COFs),利用1,3,5-三(4-氨苯基)苯和2,5-二甲氧基苯-1,4-二甲醛作为反应单体通过共聚缩合反应生成的席夫碱构成了材料的框架,对合成后的中间体材料进行氧化处理,从而提高材料的富集性能。利用扫描电镜、透射电镜、红外光谱和固体核磁等表征技术对材料的结构进行了表征,并将其应用于糖肽的选择性富集。分别对富集过程的上样条件、淋洗条件、洗脱条件进行了优化,结合质谱检测技术,从人血清免疫球蛋白G酶解液中观察到32个明显的糖肽信号峰。通过模拟复杂样本体系验证材料富集选择性,在人血清免疫球蛋白G和牛血清白蛋白的酶解液混合物摩尔比达到1∶50时,该材料仍然保持了良好的选择性。此外,还考察了材料的检测限、富集容量、回收率等富集性能,及在实际样品中的应用潜力。以人血清免疫球蛋白G为评价对象,O-T-D-COFs具有较低的检测限(2.5 fmol/μL)、较高的富集容量(120 mg/g),及较好的富集回收率(103.5%±6.6%、101.5%±10.4%)。在血清样品中富集到来自53个N-糖蛋白中的86个N-糖肽序列,并鉴定到了94个N-糖基化位点。这些结果都表明,该材料在糖肽富集领域有较好的应用前景。     

4-Mercaptophenylboronic acid functionalized graphene oxide composites: Preparation,characterization and selective enrichment of glycopeptides

Selective enrichment and isolation of glycopeptides from complex biological samples was indispensable for mass spectrometry (MS)-based glycoproteomics, however, it remained a great challenge due to the low abundance of glycoproteins and the ion suppression of non-glycopeptides. In this work, 4-mercaptophenylboronic acid functionalized graphene oxide composites were synthesized via loading gold nanoparticles on polyethylenimine modified graphene oxide surface, followed by 4-mercaptophenylboronic acid immobilization by the formation of Au–S bonding (denoted as GO/PEI/Au/4-MPB composites). The composites showed highly specific and efficient capture of glycopeptides due to their excellent hydrophilicity and abundant boronic acid groups. The composites could selectively capture the glycopeptides from the mixture of glycopeptides and nonglycopeptides, even when the amounts of non-glycopeptides were 100 times more than glycopeptides. Compared with commercial meta-amino phenylboronic acid agarose, the composites showed better selectivity when the sample was decreased to 10 ng. These results clearly verified that the GO/PEI/Au/4-MPB composites might be a promising material for glycoproteomics analysis.     

Facile preparation of hydrophilic glutathione modified magnetic nanomaterials for specific enrichment of glycopeptides

Glutathione modified magnetic nanoparticles (Fe₃O₄@Au-GSH) were synthesized through a simple process and exploited to enrich glycopeptides from complex samples.     

Facile preparation of hydrophilic glutathione modified magnetic nanomaterials for specific enrichment of glycopeptides

Investigations of glycosylated proteins or peptides and their related biological pathways provide new possibilities for illuminating the physiological and pathological mechanisms of glycosylation modification. However, open-ended and in-depth analysis of glycoproteomics is usually subjected to the low-abundance of glycopeptides, heterogeneous glycans, and a variety of interference molecules. In order to alleviate the influence of these obstacles, effective preconcentration of glycopeptides are indispensable. Here, we employed a hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC)-based method to universally capture glycopeptides. Glutathione modified magnetic nanoparticles (Fe₃O₄@Au-GSH) were synthesized through a simple process and exploited to enrich glycopeptides from complex samples. The prepared materials showed excellent ability to trap glycopeptides from standard glycoproteins digests, low detection limit (10 fmol/μL), and good selectivity (HRP:BSA = 1:100). These results indicated that glutathione-based magnetic nanoparticles synthesized in this work had great potential for glycopeptides enrichment.     

Using lectins to harvest the plasma/serum glycoproteome

Aberrant protein glycosylation has been shown to be associated with disease processes and identification of disease-specific glycoproteins and glycosylation changes may serve as potential diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers. However despite recent advances in proteomic-based biomarker discovery, this knowledge has not yet translated into an extensive mining of the glycoproteome for potential biomarkers. The major challenge for a comprehensive glycoproteomics analysis arises primarily from the enormous complexity and the large dynamic range in protein constituent in biological samples. Methods that specifically target glycoproteins are therefore necessary to facilitate their selective enrichment prior to their identification by MS-based analysis. The use of lectins, with selective affinities for specific carbohydrate epitopes, to enrich glycoprotein fractions coupled with modern MS, have greatly enhanced the identification of the glycoproteome. On account of their ability to specifically bind cell surface carbohydrates lectins have, during the recent past, found extensive applications in elucidation of the architecture and dynamics of cell surface carbohydrates, glycoconjugate purification, and structural characterization. Combined with complementary depletion and MS technologies, lectin affinity chromatography is becoming the most widely employed method of choice for biomarker discovery in cancer and other diseases.     

Targeted glycoproteomics: serial lectin affinity chromatography in the selection of O-glycosylation sites on proteins from the human blood proteome

Although lectin selection is gaining increasing acceptance as a tool for targeting glycosylation in glycoproteomics, most of the work has been directed at N-glycosylation. The work reported here focuses on the use of lectins in the study of O-glycosylation. The problem with using lectins for studying O-glycosylation is that they are not sufficiently specific. This paper reports that through the use of serial lectin affinity chromatography (SLAC) it is possible to select predominantly O-glycosylated peptides from tryptic digests of human serum. Jacalin is relatively specific for O-glycosylation but has the problem that it also selects high mannose N-type glycans. This problem was addressed by using a concanavalin A affinity column to first remove high mannose, hybrid-type and biantennary complex-type N-type glycans before application of the Jacalin columns. When used in a serial format, concanavalin A and Jacalin together provide essentially O-glycosylated peptides. The glycoprotein parents of glycopeptides were identified by deglycosylating the selected O-glycopeptides by oxidative elimination. These peptides were then separated by RPC and further analyzed using ESI-MS/MS and MALDI-MS/MS. Using this approach all the O-glycosylated sites in a model protein (fetuin) and over thirty glycoprotein parents from human serum were identified. It is concluded that a serial combination of Con A and Jacalin can be of utility in the study of O-glycosylation in glycoproteomics.     

Selective enrichment of N‐linked glycopeptides and glycans by using a dextran‐modified hydrophilic material

Glycosylation analysis of proteins from biological sources utilizing mass spectrometry based approaches is challenging due to the relatively low abundance of glycopeptides, the structural diversity of glycans, and the coexisting matrices. In this study, a customized dextran‐bonded silica‐based stationary phase was introduced for selective enrichment of glycopeptides and glycans from complex biological samples. This material has exhibited superior selectivity and broader glycosylation site coverage over commercial Sepharose in glycoproteomic evaluation. Additionally, the glycomic analysis of fetuin, α₁‐acid glycoprotein, and human serum N‐glycome also indicated the relatively higher sensitivity, selectivity, and glycoform coverage of dextran‐bonded silica than that of Sepharose and porous graphitized carbon. Therefore, the dextran‐bonded silica is expected to make contributions in the fields of glycoproteomics and glycomics.     

Boronic acid functionalized fibrous cellulose for the selective enrichment of glycopeptides

Enrichment of glycoproteins has been important because of their dynamicity and role in biological systems. Study of glycoproteins is complex because of the simultaneous glycosylation and deglycosylation inside the body. Often employed affinities for glycopeptides are hydrazide, boronic acid, or physiosorbed lectin on support materials. Cellulose, a natural polysaccharide, has rich surface chemistry, stable structure, low cost and availability in different variants. In present study, fibrous cellulose is oxidized using periodate to modify with boronic acid. Attachment of boronic acid is confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Particle size and morphology of boronic acid@fibrous cellulose is studied by scanning electron microscopy. The enrichment efficiency is evaluated by using horseradish peroxidase as model protein. Boronic acid@fibrous cellulose is selective up to 1:250 for spiked horseradish peroxidase in bovine serum albumin digest, sensitive down to 0.1 femtomol and recovering 88.15% glycopeptides. Moreover, protein binding capacity is determined as 213 mg/g and 41% sequence coverage of horseradish peroxidase protein with all eight glycosylation sites detected. Total of 18 glycopeptides are enriched from immunoglobulin digest showing ability of boronic acid@fibrous cellulose to enrich glycoproteins from multiglycoforms. Enrichment from human serum recovers 18% extracellular and 72% secreted glycoproteins via bottom‐up approach and online tools.