Ishikawa Prefectural University 1 article published in JoVE Chemistry Improved In-gel Reductive β-Elimination for Comprehensive O-linked and Sulfo-glycomics by Mass Spectrometry David B. Nix1,2, Tadahiro Kumagai1, Toshihiko Katoh1,3, Michael Tiemeyer1,2, Kazuhiro Aoki1 1Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, 3Research Institute for Bioresources and Biotechnology, Ishikawa Prefectural University In order to comprehensively explore the diversity of O-linked glycans, a new procedure for in-gel reductive β-elimination, combined with permethylation and a rapid phase-partition method, is applied to the analysis of O-linked glycans directly released from glycoproteins resolved by SDS-PAGE and amenable to subsequent glycomic analysis by mass spectrometry.
