4-巯基苯硼酸修饰二维二硫化钼纳米复合材料的制备及其用于N-糖肽特异性富集

蛋白质的N-糖基化修饰在多种生物过程中发挥着至关重要的作用，近年来的许多研究证实异常的蛋白质糖基化与多种疾病的发生发展密切相关，表明糖基化蛋白质具有较大的潜力成为新的生物标志物或者药物靶标。在样本的处理过程中，对N-糖基化肽段进行富集分离后再进行质谱分析已经成为糖蛋白质组学分析前的必要步骤。但是，由于复杂生物样本中N-糖基化肽段的丰度低和离子化效率差等问题，通过质谱鉴定N-糖肽仍然是一项艰巨的任务。研究通过将纳米金线（Au）、4-巯基苯硼酸（4-MPB）与超薄二维二硫化钼（2D-MoS₂）进行反应，成功制备了一种用于富集蛋白质N-糖基化肽段的新型功能纳米复合材料（MoS₂/Au/4-MPB）。二硫化钼纳米材料的层状结构可以为反应提供大量的可修饰位点，便于修饰纳米金线；功能基团4-巯基苯基硼酸对N-糖肽具有高度的选择性，可以对生物样品中N-糖基化肽段进行特异性富集。使用标准蛋白人免疫球蛋白G（IgG）和牛血清白蛋白（BSA）胰蛋白酶酶切产物对新型功能纳米材料的N-糖基化肽段的富集性能进行评估，其灵敏度达到5 fmol，选择性达到1：1000。将其用于生物样品中N-糖基化肽段的富集，从50 μg尿液外泌体蛋白胰蛋白酶酶切产物中共富集鉴定出768个N-糖肽，归属于377个蛋白质。这些结果表明该新型功能纳米复合材料对复杂生物样品中N-糖肽的选择富集有着巨大的应用潜力，为糖蛋白质组的研究提供了一种新方法。     

麦胚凝集素亲和色谱富集糖肽过程中的肽键裂解

蛋白质的糖基化是最重要的翻译后修饰之一,与蛋白质结构和功能的关系密切。凝集素亲和色谱是蛋白质糖基化研究中很常用的工具,不同的凝集素可以对不同的单糖或寡糖有特异的富集作用。麦胚凝集素（WGA）由于其特异作用的糖型广泛存在而成为使用最多的凝集素之一。在本研究中,发现将WGA用于糖肽亲和富集会导致部分肽段的降解,从而导致后续的肽段序列分析的失败。本文用4种标准蛋白质对这种现象进行了验证,结果表明肽段的降解可以发生在多个位点,其中较多地发生在酪氨酸、苯丙氨酸及亮氨酸的羧基端。这一结果提示：在糖蛋白质组研究中,如果应用WGA富集糖肽并采用质谱进行鉴定,则采用半酶切或非特异性酶切的检索策略更为合适。     

基于共价色谱分离的含半胱氨酸肽段富集策略

多维色谱分离、串联质谱分析技术已在蛋白质组研究中得到广泛应用。然而生物样品的蛋白质以及全酶切肽段具有高度的复杂性,这严重干扰了蛋白质高通量、规模化的分析。通过标签肽段富集进行样品预分离可以降低体系的复杂程度。本文建立了一种基于共价色谱技术选择性分离富集含半胱氨酸肽的方法,从而降低了样品体系的复杂程度。首先以牛血清白蛋白(BSA)的酶切肽段为模型,对富集条件进行了优化和考察,并在此基础上通过5种蛋白质酶切肽段混合物的富集对该方法进行了验证。结果证明此方法的重现性好,富集效率高,富集特异性好,能有效地富集鉴定含半胱氨酸肽段。所建立的方法在复杂体系的蛋白质组研究中具有广泛的应用前景,为复杂样品的蛋白质高通量、自动化、规模化鉴定和定量研究提供了实用技术。     

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。     

基于三甲基苯磺酰羟胺消除反应的氧连接氮乙酰葡萄糖胺修饰肽段的精准鉴定

氧连接氮乙酰葡萄糖胺(O-GlcNAc)是一种重要的蛋白质翻译后修饰,它在维持机体正常的生命活动中发挥着重要作用。许多研究证实,O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰稳态的破坏与人类多种疾病的发生相关,大规模富集鉴定O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰蛋白有助于发现新的临床疾病诊断标志物。由于O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰丰度较低,形成的糖苷键不稳定,O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰蛋白/肽段的富集鉴定面临一定挑战。近年来,全乙酰化的非天然糖代谢标记技术被广泛应用于O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰蛋白/肽段的富集鉴定。然而,最新的研究发现,在细胞代谢标记过程中,全乙酰化的非天然单糖会同时标记半胱氨酸的巯基而引入半胱氨酸巯基-叠氮糖人为修饰物。该副反应在一定程度上干扰了O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰蛋白/肽段的富集鉴定。鉴于此,研究发展了一种通过三甲基苯磺酰羟胺(MSH)特异性氧化消除半胱氨酸巯基-叠氮糖人为修饰物的方法,进而显著提高O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰肽段的精准鉴定。该方法建立于温和的磷酸钠缓冲液(50 mmol/L, pH=8)体系,利用过量的MSH,于95 ℃避光振荡反应30 min,可完全消除半胱氨酸巯基-叠氮糖人为修饰物。该方法应用于Hela细胞中,可有效消除叠氮全乙酰化半乳糖胺(Ac₄GalNAz)代谢产生的半胱氨酸巯基-叠氮糖人为修饰物,从而成功富集鉴定到157条O-GlcNAc糖基化修饰肽段,归属于130个蛋白质。该方法有效去除了半胱氨酸巯基-叠氮糖人为修饰物对代谢标记结果的干扰,为非天然糖代谢标记技术在糖蛋白组学分析中的应用提供了新的研究策略。     

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。     

磺化修饰结合离子交换色谱和生物质谱富集鉴定含组氨酸肽段

通过在肽段的N端引入磺酸基,从而使含组氨酸的肽段与其他肽段在pH<3.0的条件下产生电荷差异,建立了一种基于强阳离子交换色谱(SCX)结合生物质谱富集鉴定含组氨酸肽段的方法,并以含有组氨酸的标准蛋白质为模型,进行了方法学考察。结果表明,经N端磺酸化后,含组氨酸的肽段能有效地被阳离子交换色谱富集,且在肽的N端引入磺酸基促进了肽的裂解,使之产生简单而信息丰富的二级质谱图,从而得到完美的质谱鉴定结果。这说明磺化修饰结合强阳离子交换色谱用于含组氨酸肽段的富集鉴定是可行的,且具有在蛋白质组研究中应用的潜力。     

硼酸功能化的介孔氧化硅用于糖肽的高特异富集

复旦大学的赵东元院士和陆豪杰教授合作研究开发的将介孔材料成功运用于糖基化肽段富集的新技术（Anal．Chem．,2009,81（1）：503～508）。与传统策略相比,此方法不仅大大缩短了孵育时间,并且将灵敏度提高两个数量级,有望为大规模的蛋白质组后修饰鉴定提供了强有力的技术保障。     

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...     

Boronic Acid Functionalized Core–Satellite Composite Nanoparticles for Advanced Enrichment of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins

A core–satellite‐structured composite material has been successfully synthesized for capturing glycosylated peptides or proteins. This novel hybrid material is composed of a silica‐coated ferrite “core” and numerous “satellites” of gold nanoparticles with lots of “anchors”. The anchor, 3‐aminophenylboronic acid, designed for capturing target molecules, is highly specific toward glycosylated species. The long organic chains bridging the gold surface and the anchors could reduce the steric hindrance among the bound molecules and suppress nonspecific bindings. Due to the excellent structure of the current material, the trap‐and‐release enrichment of glycosylated samples is quite simple, specific, and effective. Indeed, the composite nanoparticles could be used for enriching glycosylated peptides and proteins with very low concentrations, and the enriched samples can be easily separated from bulk solution by a magnet. By using this strategy, the recovery of glycopeptides and glycoproteins after enrichment were found to be 85.9 and 71.6 % separately, whereas the adsorption capacity of the composite nanoparticles was proven to be more than 79 mg of glycoproteins per gram of the material. Moreover, the new composite nanoparticles were applied to enrich glycosylated proteins from human colorectal cancer tissues for identification of N‐glycosylation sites. In all, 194 unique glycosylation sites mapped to 155 different glycoproteins have been identified, of which 165 sites (85.1 %) were newly identified.     

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.     

One-pot synthesis of magnetic colloidal nanocrystal clusters coated with chitosan for selective enrichment of glycopeptides

Selective enrichment of glycopeptides prior to the mass spectrometry (MS) analysis is essential due to ion suppression effect during ionization caused by the co-presence of non-glycosylated peptides. Among the enrichment approaches, hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) based on magnetic separation has become a popular method in recent years. As the conventional synthesis procedures of these materials are tedious and time-consuming with at least four steps. Herein, magnetic colloidal nanocrystal clusters coated with chitosan (Fe₃O₄@CS MCNCs) have been successfully prepared by a simple one-pot method. The resulting Fe₃O₄@CS MCNCs demonstrated an excellent ability for glycopeptide enrichment with high selectivity, low detection limit and high binding capacity. Furthermore, in the analysis of real complicated biological sample, 283 unique N-glycosylation sites corresponding to 175 glycosylated proteins were identified in three replicate analyses of 45 μg protein sample extracted from HeLa cells, indicating the great potential in detection and identification of low abundant glycopeptides in glycoproteome analysis.     

A PEGylated Photocleavable Auxiliary Mediates the Sequential Enzymatic Glycosylation and Native Chemical Ligation of Peptides

Research aimed at understanding the specific role of glycosylation patterns in protein function would greatly benefit from additional approaches allowing direct access to homogeneous glycoproteins. Herein the development and application of an efficient approach for the synthesis of complex homogenously glycosylated peptides based on a multifunctional photocleavable auxiliary is described. The presence of a PEG polymer within the auxiliary enables sequential enzymatic glycosylation and straightforward isolation in excellent yields. The auxiliary‐modified peptides can be directly used in native chemical ligations with peptide thioesters easily obtained by direct hydrazinolysis of the respective glycosylated peptidyl resins and subsequent oxidation. The ligated glycopeptides can be smoothly deprotected by UV irradiation. We apply this approach to the preparation of variants of the epithelial tumor marker MUC1 carrying one or more Tn, T, or sialyl‐T antigens.     

Highly efficient and selective enrichment of peptide subsets combining fluorous chemistry with reversed‐phase chromatography

The selective capture of target peptides poses a great challenge to modern chemists and biologists, especially when enriching them from proteome samples possessing extremes in concentration dynamic range and sequence diversity. While approaches based on traditional techniques such as biotin‐avidin pairing offer versatile tools to design strategies for selective enrichment, problems are still encountered due to sample loss or poor selectivity of enrichment. Here we show that the recently introduced fluorous chemistry approach has attractive properties as an alternative method for selective enrichment. Through appending a perfluorine group to the target peptide, it is possible to dramatically increase the peptide's hydrophobicity and thus enable facile separation of labeled from non‐labeled peptides. Use of reversed‐phase chromatography allowed for improved peptide recovery in comparison with results obtained using the formerly reported fluorous bonded phase methods. Furthermore, this approach also allowed for on‐line separation and identification of both labeled and unlabeled peptides in a single experiment. The net result is an increase in the confidence of protein identification by tandem mass spectrometry (MS²) as all peptides and subsequent information are retained. Successful off‐line and on‐line enrichment of cysteine‐containing peptides was obtained, and high quality MS² spectra were obtained by tandem mass spectrometry due to the stability of the tag, allowing for facile identification via standard database searching. We believe that this strategy holds great promise for selective enrichment and identification of low abundance target proteins or peptides. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

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.     

Unmasking low-abundance peptides from human blood plasma and serum samples by a simple and robust two-step precipitation/immunoaffinity enrichment method

Proteomic analysis of human plasma and serum for identifying and validating disease-specific marker proteins and peptides has one major drawback besides its unique advantage as a readily available sample source for diagnostic assays. This disadvantage is represented by the predominance of several high- and middle-abundant proteins, which clearly hamper identification and quantification approaches of potential and validated protein and peptide biomarkers, which are often of very low abundance. During the last decades, a significant number of depletion and enrichment techniques evolved to address these two issues. We present here a cost-effective and easy-to-use strategy for protein depletion comprising a thermal precipitation protocol followed by a two-step liquid/liquid precipitation as well as using an immunoaffinity chromatography method for the specific enrichment and isolation of the low-abundance polypeptide N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and its precursor proBNP clinically used as biomarkers for the detection of severe human heart failure and related diseases. The applicability of this approach is shown by SDS -CGE, SDS-PAGE, electrochemiluminescence immunoassay and nano-LC ESI-MS/MS. Our thermal precipitation protocol followed by a two-step liquid/liquid precipitation could also serve as a potential depletion technique for the characterization of other low-abundance peptides and proteins.