title: Parallel analysis and orthogonal identification of N-glycans with different capillary electrophoresis mechanisms.
abstract: The deep involvement of glycans or carbohydrate moieties in biological processes makes glycan patterns an important direction for the clinical and medicine researches. A multiplexing CE mapping method for glycan analysis was developed in this study. By applying different CE separation mechanisms, the potential of combined parallel applications of capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) and capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE) for rapid and accurate identification of glycan was investigated. The combination of CZE and MEKC demonstrated enhancing chromatography separation capacity without the compromises of sample pre-treatment and glycan concentration. The separation mechanisms for multiplexing platform were selected based on the orthogonalities of the separation of glycan standards. MEKC method exhibited promising ability for the analysis of small GU value glycans and thus complementing the unavailability of CZE. The method established required only small amount of samples, simple instrument and single fluorescent labelling for sensitive detection. This integrated method can be used to search important glycan patterns appearing in biopharmaceutical products and other glycoproteins with clinical importance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore; NUS Environmental Research Institute, 5A Engineering Drive 1, T-Lab Building, Singapore 117411, Singapore.
authors.forename: Hua-Tao
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore.
authors.forename: Farida Nur
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Rifai
authors.affiliation: NUS Environmental Research Institute, 5A Engineering Drive 1, T-Lab Building, Singapore 117411, Singapore.
authors.forename: Pingjing
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore; NUS Environmental Research Institute, 5A Engineering Drive 1, T-Lab Building, Singapore 117411, Singapore. Electronic address: chmlifys@nus.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Sam F Y
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002241:Carbohydrates; D020374:Chromatography, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary; D006023:Glycoproteins; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates; D006023:Glycoproteins; D011134:Polysaccharides
keywords: CE; CZE; Glycan; Glycoprotein; LIF; MEKC; Multiplexing; Oligosaccharides; Separation