Selective and Cleavable Extraction of Sialo-glycoproteins by Disulfide-Linked Amino-oxy-Functionalized Fe3O4 Magnetic Nanoparticles

Bioconjug Chem. 2017 Oct 18;28(10):2514-2517. doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00339. Epub 2017 Sep 13.

Abstract

The low abundance of sialo-glycoprotein hampered the separation, enrichment, and analysis of sialo-glycoproteins, which are critical for studying their functions. Here, we designed cleavable amino-oxy functionalized magnetic materials and employed to fast and selective isolate sialo-glycoproteins. This includes the ligation of disulfide-linked amino-oxy-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles with periodate-treated glycoproteins or cells, followed by magnetic separation. A reductive reagent could release the sialo-glycoproteins with small molecular fragments on the terminal of glycan chains, and the sialo-glycoproteins were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. On-bead digestion of the peptides were analyzed by tandem mass spectrometry. The results indicated that this method could selectively separate the majority of cell-surface sialo-glycoproteins.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Disulfides / chemistry*
  • Glycoproteins / chemistry*
  • Glycoproteins / isolation & purification*
  • Humans
  • Jurkat Cells
  • Magnetite Nanoparticles / chemistry*

Substances

  • Disulfides
  • Glycoproteins
  • Magnetite Nanoparticles