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Changes in protein glycosylation modification have been found to be closely related to cancer and other diseases. Profiling glycosylation change has become an effective way to explore the diagnosis and treatment markers. The accuracy of quantitative technology is the key to reveal the mystery of glycosylation, and the screening and validation of glycosylation disease markers is dependant on the study of large clinical samples. Therefore, glycomic technology are expected to be simple, rapid, high-throughput, accurate and practical. In this paper, the characteristics of some commonly used glycomic analysis techniques and their applications in glycan markers are briefly discussed, and the characteristics, progress and applications of high-throughput precision glycome quantitative methods based on MALDI MS are emphasized.
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Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDGs) is a group of inherited metabolic diseases caused by abnormal glycosylation of protein or lipids, and the number of CDGs are increasing rapidly in recent years. With the advent and popularization of next-generation sequencing, more and more disorders associated with glycosylation-related gene mutations have been discovered. Synthesis of glycoproteins and glycolipids is one of the major roles of the liver, and many CDGs affect hepatobiliary structure or function and may lead to fatty liver disease, liver fibrosis, and ductal plate malformation. This article reports the latest advances in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of CDGs and related liver diseases.
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The glycosylation of proteins is responsible for their structural and functional roles in many cellular activities. This work describes a strategy that combines an efficient release, labeling and liquid chromatography–mass spectral analysis with the use of a comprehensive database to analyze N-glycans. The analytical method described relies on a recently commercialized kit in which quick deglycosylation is followed by rapid labeling and cleanup of labeled glycans. This greatly improves the separation, mass spectrometry (MS) analysis and fluorescence detection of N-glycans. A hypothetical database, constructed using GlycResoft, provides all compositional possibilities of N-glycans based on the common sugar residues found in N-glycans. In the initial version this database contains >8,700 N-glycans, and is compatible with MS instrument software and expandable. N-glycans from four different well-studied glycoproteins were analyzed by this strategy. The results provided much more accurate and comprehensive data than that had been previously reported. This strategy was then used to analyze the N-glycans present on the membrane glycoproteins of gastric carcinoma cells with different degrees of differentiation. Accurate and comprehensive N-glycan data from those cells was obtained efficiently and their differences were compared corresponding to their differentiation states. Thus, the novel strategy developed greatly improves accuracy, efficiency and comprehensiveness of N-glycan analysis.
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Fluorous solid-phase extraction ( FSPE ) is a solid-phase extraction technique based on fluorous affinity between perfluorous compounds. It requires derivatization on analytes with fluorous tags and further specific separation accomplished by perfluorinated solid phase. This technique has extended to various research fields with broad application including organic synthesize, catalysis, chemical and biological analysis. Recently, owing to its good compatibility with mass spectrometry, new analytic techniques relying on FSPE coupled to biological mass spectrometry have received wide attention. This review briefly introduced the principle of FSPE and emphasized on its application for the analysis of biomolecules with mass spectrometry, as well as its outlook of future development.
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Technologies for glycomics usually involve methods for separation and purification of poly-saccharides, and separation, structure resolution, quantification, property investigation and function comment of glycan chains. Because of the different biochemical properties of glycoproteins, proteogly-cans and glycolipids, the separation and purification of polysaccharides involve corresponding fractional precipitation, boric acid affinity, titanium dioxide, affinity chromatography, size exclusion method, and gel filtration chromatography column chromatography methods. The lectins, water affinity chromatogra-phy , solid phase extraction and other technologies could be applied to the oil enrichment of high pure and specific glycan chains. The structure of glycan chains can be analyzed using lectin microarray technolo-gy, mass spectrometry, and derivatization markers of glycan chains. lsotope labelling and metabolic labeling can be used to quantify glycan chains. The glycan biological function can be better understood using glycan chain structure analysis software and database of glycan chains by bioinformatics.
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With the emergence of glycomies in the post-genome era,various lectin-related techniques have been developed to analyse the glycoproteins from cells,body fluids and tissues in comparative glycoprotein studies of cancer research.Compared to other techniques of glycan enrichment and identification,lectin-based techniques can sort and identify glycoconjugates without glycan modification,ascribed to the specific affinity of lectins and their corresponding glycans.
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With the completion of human genome, we are entering the functional genomic age. To further reveal the nature of life, glycomics comes into being and becomes a research focus. This review gives a deep insight on the current research progress of glycomics, including the research target, the structural classification and metabolism of sugar chain, the biological significance, research approaches, and the correlation between glycomics and liver diseases.
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With the completion of human genome,we are entering the functional genomic age.To further reveal the nature of life,glycomics comes into being and becomes a research focus.This review gives a deep insight on the current research progress of glycomics,including the research target,the structural classification and metabolism of sugar chain,the biological significance,research approaches,and the correlation between glycomics and liver diseases.