1. Large-Scale Identification and Fragmentation Pathways Analysis of N-Glycans from Mouse Brain.
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Shen, Yun, You, Yiwen, Xiao, Kaijie, Chen, Yun, and Tian, Zhixin
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GLYCANS , *MICE , *GLYCOSYLATION , *TANDEM mass spectrometry , *LIQUID chromatography-mass spectrometry - Abstract
N-linked glycosylation is one of the most common protein PTMs, and the topological structure (monosaccharide composition and sequence as well as glycosidic linkages) of N-glycans is vital information to understand their biological functions and roles. Tandem mass spectrometry has been widely used for topological structure characterization of N-glycans, where comprehensive understanding of fragmentation pathways and characteristics of product ions are essential to achieve best interpretation of MS/MS data and highest confidence of identification. Here, we report our glycomic study of N-glycome of mouse brain as well as fragmentation pathway analysis of the identified N-glycans. With LC-MS/MS analysis at both the positive and negative ESI modes together with our recently developed N-glycan database search engine GlySeeker, 221 unique N-glycans with putative topological structures were identified with target-decoy searches and number of best hits of 1. Analysis of fragmentation pathways and characteristics of product ions of permethylated N-glycans in the positive mode and native N-glycans in the negative mode were further carried out. The reported N-glycans serve as a basic reference for future glycosylation study of mouse brain; and in general database search of tandem mass spectra of N-glycans, B/Y/Z ions should be preferentially considered for the permethylated form in the positive mode and B/C/Z ions for the native form in the negative mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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