Combining Glucose Units, m/z, and Collision Cross Section Values: Multiattribute Data for Increased Accuracy in Automated Glycosphingolipid Glycan Identifications and Its Application in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

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Combining Glucose Units, m/z, and Collision Cross Section Values: Multiattribute Data for Increased Accuracy in Automated Glycosphingolipid Glycan Identifications and Its Application in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
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Combining Glucose Units, m/z, and Collision Cross Section Values: Multiattribute Data for Increased Accuracy in Automated Glycosphingolipid Glycan Identifications and Its Application in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Journal Title:
Analytical Chemistry
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Publication Date:
09 June 2019
Citation:
Anal. Chem. 2019, 91, 14, 9078-9085
Abstract:
Glycan head-groups attached to glycosphingolipids (GSLs) found in the cell membrane bilayer can alter in response to external stimuli and disease, making them potential markers and/or targets for cellular disease states. To identify such markers, comprehensive analyses of glycan structures must be undertaken. Conventional analyses of fluorescently labeled glycans using hydrophilic interaction high-performance liquid chromatography (HILIC) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) provides relative quantitation and has the ability to perform automated glycan assignments using glucose unit (GU) and mass matching. The use of ion mobility (IM) as an additional level of separation can aid the characterization of closely related or isomeric structures through the generation of glycan collision cross section (CCS) identifiers. Here, we present a workflow for the analysis of procainamide-labeled GSL glycans using HILIC-IM-MS and a new, automated glycan identification strategy whereby multiple glycan attributes are combined to increase accuracy in automated structural assignments. For glycan matching and identification, an experimental reference database of GSL glycans containing GU, mass, and CCS values for each glycan was created. To assess the accuracy of glycan assignments, a distance-based confidence metric was used. The assignment accuracy was significantly better compared to conventional HILIC-MS approaches (using mass and GU only). This workflow was applied to the study of two Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) cell lines and revealed potential GSL glycosylation signatures characteristic of different TNBC subtypes.
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This research is supported by the A*STAR Joint Council Office, under its HighGlycoART funding programme (Award 1355g00086).
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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Analytical Chemistry, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01476.
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0003-2700
1520-6882
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