Glycan chip based on structure-switchable DNA linker for on-chip biosynthesis of cancer-associated complex glycans

Nat Commun. 2021 Mar 2;12(1):1395. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21538-0.

Abstract

On-chip glycan biosynthesis is an effective strategy for preparing useful complex glycan sources and for preparing glycan-involved applications simultaneously. However, current methods have some limitations when analyzing biosynthesized glycans and optimizing enzymatic reactions, which could result in undefined glycan structures on a surface, leading to unequal and unreliable results. In this work, a glycan chip is developed by introducing a pH-responsive i-motif DNA linker to control the immobilization and isolation of glycans on chip surfaces in a pH-dependent manner. On-chip enzymatic glycosylations are optimized for uniform biosynthesis of cancer-associated Globo H hexasaccharide and its related complex glycans through stepwise quantitative analyses of isolated products from the surface. Successful interaction analyses of the anti-Globo H antibody and MCF-7 breast cancer cells with on-chip biosynthesized Globo H-related glycans demonstrate the feasibility of the structure-switchable DNA linker-based glycan chip platform for on-chip complex glycan biosynthesis and glycan-involved applications.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate / metabolism
  • Cholera Toxin / metabolism
  • DNA / metabolism*
  • G(M1) Ganglioside / metabolism
  • Glycosylation
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • MCF-7 Cells
  • Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • Polysaccharides / biosynthesis*
  • Polysaccharides / chemistry
  • Protein Subunits / metabolism

Substances

  • Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate
  • Globo-H
  • Polysaccharides
  • Protein Subunits
  • G(M1) Ganglioside
  • DNA
  • Cholera Toxin

Associated data

  • figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.13634771