N-glycosylation of plant recombinant pharmaceuticals

Methods Mol Biol. 2009:483:239-64. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-407-0_14.

Abstract

N-glycosylation is a maturation event necessary for the correct function, efficiency, and stability of a high number of biopharmaceuticals. This chapter presented here proposes various methods to determine whether, how, and where a plant pharmaceutical is N-glycosylated. These methods rely on blot detection with glycan-specific probes, specific deglycosylation of glycoproteins followed by mass spectrometry, N-glycan profile analysis, and glycopeptide identification by LC-MS.

MeSH terms

  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Glycosylation
  • Humans
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations*
  • Plants / genetics*
  • Recombinant Proteins / biosynthesis
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations
  • Recombinant Proteins