Current landscape of protein glycosylation analysis and recent progress toward a novel paradigm of glycoscience research

Abstract

This review covers the basics and some applications of methodologies for the analysis of glycoprotein glycans. Analytical techniques used for glycoprotein glycans, including liquid chromatography (LC), capillary electrophoresis (CE), mass spectrometry (MS), and high-throughput analytical methods based on microfluidics, were described to supply the essentials about biopharmaceutical and biomarker glycoproteins. We will also describe the MS analysis of glycoproteins and glycopeptides as well as the chemical and enzymatic releasing methods of glycans from glycoproteins and the chemical reactions used for the derivatization of glycans. We hope the techniques have accommodated most of the requests from glycoproteomics researchers.

Keywords: Capillary electrophoresis; Fluorescent labeling; Glycan enrichment; Glycoprotein glycans; Lectin; Liquid chromatography; Mass spectrometry; Review.