Issue 20, 2020

Glucose unit index (GUI) of permethylated glycans for effective identification of glycans and glycan isomers

Abstract

Retention time is the most common and widely used criterion to report the separation of glycans using Liquid Chromatography (LC), but it varies widely across different columns, instruments and laboratories. This variation is problematic when inter-laboratory data is compared. Furthermore, it influences reproducibility and hampers efficient data interpretation. In our endeavor to overcome this variance, we propose the use of the Glucose Unit Index (GUI) on C18 and PGC column-based separation of reduced and permethylated glycans. GUI has previously been utilized for retention time normalization of native and labeled glycans. We evaluated this method with reduced and permethylated glycans derived from model glycoproteins fetuin and ribonuclease B (RNase B), and then implemented it to human blood serum to generate C18 and PGC column-based isomeric glycan libraries. GUI values for glycan compositions were calculated with respect to the glucose units derived from dextrin, which was employed as an elution standard. The GUI values were validated on three different LC systems (UltiMate 3000 Nano UHPLC systems) in two laboratories to ensure the reliability and reproducibility of the method. Applicability on real samples was demonstrated using human breast cancer cell lines. A total of 116 permethylated N-glycans separated on a C18 column and 134 glycans separated on a PGC column were compiled in a library. Overall, the established GUI method and the demonstration of reproducible inter- and intra-laboratory GUI values would aid the future development of automated glycan and isomeric glycan identification methods.

Graphical abstract: Glucose unit index (GUI) of permethylated glycans for effective identification of glycans and glycan isomers

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Feb 2020
Accepted
30 Jul 2020
First published
31 Jul 2020

Analyst, 2020,145, 6656-6667

Glucose unit index (GUI) of permethylated glycans for effective identification of glycans and glycan isomers

S. Gautam, W. Peng, B. G. Cho, Y. Huang, A. Banazadeh, A. Yu, X. Dong and Y. Mechref, Analyst, 2020, 145, 6656 DOI: 10.1039/D0AN00314J

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