1. Combination of High-Resolution Multistage Ion Mobility and Tandem MS with High Energy of Activation to Resolve the Structure of Complex Chemoenzymatically Synthesized Glycans
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David Ropartz, Mathieu Fanuel, Simon Ollivier, Adrien Lissarrague, Mounir Benkoulouche, Laurence A. Mulard, Isabelle André, David Guieysse, Hélène Rogniaux, Unité de recherche sur les Biopolymères, Interactions Assemblages (BIA), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Chimie des Biomolécules - Chemistry of Biomolecules, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), ANR-15-CE07-0019,CarbUniVax,Synergie entre synthèse chimique et ingénierie d'enzymes pour le développement de vaccins glycoconjugués à large spectre(2015), and ANR-18-CE29-0006,ALGAIMS,Analyses de polysaccharides comportant des unités Galf par IRMPD et MS-mobilité ionique(2018)
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Isomerism ,Polysaccharides ,Tandem Mass Spectrometry ,[SDV.IDA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food engineering ,Carbohydrates ,Oligosaccharides ,[SDV.BBM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology ,Analytical Chemistry - Abstract
International audience; Carbohydrates, in particular microbial glycans, are highly structurally diverse biomolecules, the recognition of which governs numerousbiological processes. Of special interest, glycans of known monosaccharide composition feature multiple possible isomers, differentiated by the anomerism and position of their glycosidic linkages. Robust analytical tools able to circumvent this extreme structural complexity are increasing in demand to ensure not only the correct determination of naturally occurring glycans but also to support the rapid development of enzymatic and chemoenzymatic glycan synthesis. In support to the later, we report the use of complementary strategies based on mass spectrometry (MS) to evaluate the ability of 14 engineered mutants of sucrose-utilizing α-transglucosylases to produce type/group-specific Shigella flexneri pentasaccharide bricks from a single lightly protected non-natural tetrasaccharide acceptor substrate. A first analysis of the reaction media by UHPLC coupled to high-accuracy MS led to detect six reaction products of enzymatic glucosylation out of the eight possible ones. A seventh structure was evidenced by an additional step of ion mobility at a resolving power (Rp) of approximately 100. Finally, a Rp of about 250 in ion mobility made it possible to detect the eighth and last of the expected structures. Complementary to these measurements, tandem MS with high activation energy charge transfer dissociation (CTD) allowed us to unambiguously characterize seven regioisomers out of the eight possible products of enzymatic glucosylation. This work illustrates the potential of the recently described powerful IMS and CTD−MS methods for the precise structural characterization of complex glycans.
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- 2022