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Glycan Node Analysis: A Bottom-up Approach to Glycomics
Published on: May 22, 2016
N-glycans in Toxicodendron vernicifluum lacquer laccase
Oyunjargal Tumurbaatar1, Surina Bo2, Oyundelger Ganzorig1
1Department of Bio and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami, Hokkaido, 090-8507, Japan.
Abstract:
The N-glycans in Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Rhus vernicifera) lacquer laccase was elucidated for the first time through a combination of enzymatic digestion and subsequent mass spectrometry measurements using LC-MS/MS and MALDI-TOF MS. Lacquer laccase was isolated from a Japanese lacquer acetone powder from consecutive Sephadex C-50 and DEAE A-50 column chromatography. Trypsin and chymotrypsin digestions of the lacquer laccase resulted in a mixture of peptides and N-glycopeptides, which were treated with peptide-N-glycosidases and then Nα-(aminooxyacetyl)tryptophanylarginine methyl ester (aoWR) to give the aoWR-labelled N-glycans. The MS measurements revealed that GlcNAc4Hex5Fuc3Xyl1 N-glycan was attached at 12 N-glycosylation sites (Asn 5, 14, 180, 194, 233, 274, 284, 347, 364, 381, 398, and 519), GlcNAc3Hex4Fuc2Xyl1 N-glycan at two sites (Asn 124 and 454), and GlcNAc3Hex6Fuc1Xyl1 N-glycan at one site (Asn 28). A database search (Mascot search) of the peptides also suggested the presence of N-glycans at the 15 potential N-glycosylation sites (Asn-X-Ser/Thr).
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