Isolation of human milk difucosyl nona- and decasaccharides by ultra-high temperature preparative PGC-HPLC and identification of novel difucosylated heptaose and octaose backbones by negative-Ion ESI-MSn
Author(s)
Chai, Wengang
Cao, Cuiyan
Jinyu, Yan
Mulloy, Barbara
Tajadura-Ortega, Virginia
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Despite their many important physiological functions, past work on the diverse sequences of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) has been focused mainly on the highly abundant HMOs with a relatively low degree of polymerization (DP) due to the lack of efficient methods for separation/purification and high-sensitivity sequencing of large-sized HMOs with DP ≥ 10. Here we established an ultrahigh-temperature preparative HPLC based on a porous graphitized carbon column at up to 145 °C to overcome the anomeric α/β splitting problem and developed further the negative-ion ESI-CID-MS/MS into multistage MSn using a combined product-ion scanning of singly charged molecular ion and doubly charged fragment ion of the branching Gal and adjacent GlcNAc residues. The separation and sequencing method allows efficient separation of a neutral fraction with DP ≥ 10 into 70 components, among which 17 isomeric difucosylated nona- and decasaccharides were further purified and sequenced. As a result, novel branched difucosyl heptaose and octaose backbones were unambiguously identified in addition to the conventional linear and branched octaose backbones. The novel structures of difucosylated DF-novo-heptaose, DF-novo-LNO I, and DF-novo-LNnO I were corroborated by NMR. The various fucose-containing Lewis epitopes identified on different backbones were confirmed by oligosaccharide microarray analysis.
Date Issued
2024-04-23
Date Acceptance
2024-04-07
Citation
Analytical Chemistry, 2024, 96 (16), pp.6170-6179
ISSN
0003-2700
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
6170
End Page
6179
Journal / Book Title
Analytical Chemistry
Volume
96
Issue
16
Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This publication is licensed under
CC-BY 4.0.
CC-BY 4.0.
License URL
Identifier
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05008
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2024-04-14