title: Strategies for analysis of glycoprotein glycosylation.
abstract: Glycoproteins are known to exhibit multiple biological functions. In order to assign distinct functional properties to defined structural features, detailed information on the respective carbohydrate moieties is required. Chemical and biochemical analyses, however, are often impeded by the small amounts of sample available and the vast structural heterogeneity of these glycans, thus necessitating highly sensitive and efficient methods for detection, separation and structural investigation. The aim of this article is to briefly review suitable strategies for characterization of glycosylation at the levels of intact proteins, glycopeptides and free oligosaccharides. Furthermore, methods commonly used for isolation, fractionation and carbohydrate structure analysis of liberated glycoprotein glycans are discussed in the context of potential applications in glycoproteomics.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Giessen, Friedrichstrasse 24, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.
authors.forename: Hildegard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Geyer
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Geyer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary; D006020:Glycopeptides / Q000737:chemistry; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006031:Glycosylation; D037102:Lectins / Q000378:metabolism; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry
chemical_list: D006020:Glycopeptides; D006023:Glycoproteins; D037102:Lectins; D011134:Polysaccharides