Comparative quantitation of aberrant glycoforms by lectin-based glycoprotein enrichment coupled with multiple-reaction monitoring mass spectrometry

Anal Chem. 2010 Jun 1;82(11):4441-7. doi: 10.1021/ac1001965.

Abstract

Lectin enrichment-coupled multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) mass spectrometry was employed to quantitatively monitor the variation of aberrant glycoforms produced under pathological states. For this, aberrant glycoforms of the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP1) and protein tyrosine phosphatase kappa (PTPkappa), previously known target proteins for N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V (GnT-V), were enriched by phytohemagglutinin-L(4) (L-PHA) lectin and comparatively analyzed in the conditioned medium of the WiDr colon cancer cell line and its GnT-V-overexpressing transfectant cells. Enriched glycoforms were digested, and the resultant peptides were comparatively quantified by MRM analysis. MRM quantitation data for the L-PHA-enriched samples revealed that the abundance of aberrant glycoforms of TIMP1 and PTPkappa was greatly increased (11.7- and 16.5-fold, respectively) in GnT-V-treated cells compared to the control cells, although the abundance of total TIMP1 and PTPkappa in GnT-V-treated cells was slightly different (1.1- and 0.5-fold, respectively) for unenriched samples compared to that in control cells. The dramatic variation in abundance of the aberrant glycoforms due to overexpressed GnT-V was confirmed quantitatively by comparative MRM analysis of lectin-enriched samples. This method is capable of comparatively quantitating the abundance of a protein of interest and its aberrant glycoform and will be useful for studying pathological mechanisms of cancer or verifying biomarker candidates.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Calibration
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Desmoglein 2 / metabolism
  • Glycoproteins / chemistry*
  • Glycoproteins / metabolism*
  • Glycosylation
  • Humans
  • Lectins / metabolism*
  • Mass Spectrometry / methods*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases / metabolism
  • Peptides / chemistry
  • Peptides / metabolism
  • Phytohemagglutinins / metabolism
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / metabolism
  • Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1 / metabolism
  • Trypsin / metabolism

Substances

  • Desmoglein 2
  • Glycoproteins
  • Lectins
  • Peptides
  • Phytohemagglutinins
  • Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1
  • phytohemagglutinin L4
  • N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases
  • alpha-1,6-mannosylglycoprotein beta 1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
  • Trypsin