Enhanced Detection of Sialylated and Sulfated Glycans with Negative Ion Mode Nanoliquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry at High pH
作者:Kristina A. Thomsson、Malin Bäckström、Jessica M. Holmén Larsson、Gunnar C. Hansson、Hasse Karlsson
DOI:10.1021/ac902602e
日期:2010.2.15
Negative ion mode nanoliquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (nano-LC/MS) on porous graphitic carbon columns at pH 11 was studied and compared to capillary LC/MS at pH 8 for the analysis of neutral and acidic glycan alditols. Oligosaccharides were chromatographed with an acetonitrile gradient containing 0.04% ammonium hydroxide and analyzed with a linear ion trap mass spectrometer (LTQ) equipped with a modified nanospray interface. Analysis of acidic N- and O-glycan standards revealed that good quality MS/MS spectra could be obtained when loading 1−3 fmol, a 10-fold increase in sensitivity compared to capillary-LC/MS at pH 8. Analysis of a complex mixture of O-glycans from porcine colonic mucins with nano-LC/MS and MS/MS at high pH revealed 170 oligosaccharides in one analysis, predominantly corresponding to sulfated glycans with up to 11 residues. Analysis of the same sample with capillary-LC/MS showed a lower sensitivity for multiply sulfated glycans. Nano-LC/MS of O-linked oligosaccharides on MUC2 from a human colon biopsy also illustrated that the ionization of oligosaccharides with multiple sialic acid groups was increased compared to those with only one sialic acid residue. Nano-LC/MS at high pH is, thus, a highly sensitive approach for the analysis of acidic oligosaccharides.
研究了 pH 11 下多孔石墨碳柱上的负离子模式纳液相色谱/质谱 (nano-LC/MS) 分析方法,并与 pH 8 下的毛细管 LC/MS 进行比较,以分析中性和酸性聚糖糖醇。使用含有 0.04% 氢氧化铵的乙腈梯度对低聚糖进行色谱分析,并使用配备改进的纳喷雾接口的线性离子阱质谱仪 (LTQ) 进行分析。对酸性 N- 和 O- 聚糖标准品的分析表明,上样 1−3 fmol 时可以获得高质量的 MS/MS 谱图,与 pH 8 下的毛细管 LC/MS 相比,灵敏度提高了 10 倍。使用纳米 LC/MS 和高 pH 下的 MS/MS 对猪结肠粘蛋白的 O-聚糖混合物进行分析,结果显示,在一项分析中发现了 170 种寡糖,主要对应于最多有 11 个残基的硫酸化聚糖。使用毛细管 LC/MS 对同一样品进行分析表明,多重硫酸化聚糖的灵敏度较低。对来自人类结肠活检的 MUC2 上的 O-连接寡糖进行的 Nano-LC/MS 分析也表明,与仅具有一个唾液酸残基的寡糖相比,具有多个唾液酸基团的寡糖的电离增加。因此,高 pH 条件下的 Nano-LC/MS 是分析酸性寡糖的一种高度灵敏的方法。