Modulation of Glycan Detection on Specific Glycoproteins by Lectin Multimerization

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• 作者：Zheng Cao ; Katie Partyka ; Mitchell McDonald ; Elizabeth Brouhard ; Marina Hincapie ; Randall E. Brand ; William S. Hancock ; Brian B. Haab
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：February 5, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：85
• 期：3
• 页码：1689-1698
• 全文大小：519K
• 年卷期：v.85,no.3(February 5, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-6882

文摘

Improved methods for studying glycans could spur significant advances in the understanding and application of glycobiology. The use of affinity reagents such as lectins and glycan-binding antibodies is a valuable complement to methods involving mass spectrometry and chromatography. Many lectins, however, are not useful as analytic tools due to low affinity in vitro. As an approach to increasing lectin avidity to targeted glycans, we tested the use of lectin multimerization. Several biotinylated lectins were linked together through streptavidin interactions. The binding of certain lectins for purified glycoproteins and glycoproteins captured directly out of biological solutions was increased using multimerization, resulting in the detection of lower concentrations of glycoprotein than possible using monomeric detection. The analysis of glycoproteins in plasma samples showed that the level of binding enhancement through multimerization was not equivalent across patient samples. Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) reactive glycans on fibronectin and thrombospondin-5 were preferentially bound by multimers in pancreatic cancer patient samples relative to control samples, suggesting a cancer-associated change in glycan density that could be detected only through lectin multimerization. This strategy could lead to the more sensitive and informative detection of glycans in biological samples and a broader spectrum of lectins that are useful as analytical reagents.