S indicate the nontumorous pancreas ductal cells, and red arrows indicate pancreatic tumor cells.[61]. Compared to a previous strategy that used metabolic engineering to isolate sialoglycoproteins and associated proteins in the protein mixture [29], the major advantage of the approach used in this study is Pentetreotide the PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3064948 capture of azido labeled sialoglycopeptides and enzymatic release of Nlinked sialoglycopeptides for mass spectrometry identification of sialoglycosylation sites. The procedure allows the identification of not only the isolated proteins, but also the specific N-glycosylation sites that may contribute to more sensitive and specific identification of sialoglycoproteins [29]. Another advantage of our approach compared to previous reports is the use of synthetic azido-derivatized ManNAc analog 1,3,4-O-Bu3ManNAz, which is capable of supporting higher metabolic flux through the sialic acid biosynthetic pathway at low concentrations compared to Ac4ManNAz [29,34]. Seventy-five unique formerly azido-sialic acid modified glycopeptides were identified from 55 glycoproteins using 1,3,4-O-Bu3ManNAz analog treatment (Table 2 and Additional file 2: Table S2). The number of proteins we identified was relatively low compared to whole glycoproteome datasets, in which hundreds or even thousands of glycoproteins are expected to be expressed in aparticular cell type. However we emphasize that we deliberately did not seek to maximize detection of all possible sialoglycans in the present study but rather conducted PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3064948 our experiments in a way that would be most conducive to the identification of cancer-associated biomarkers. In particular, we first limited the labeling period to two days even though evidence suggests that non-natural sialic acids can accumulate in tissue over a 6-week period upon repeated daily dosing [62]; we consider it to be unlikely that a diagnostic test could be conducted in a clinicallyrelevant manner over this extended period (instead we used a 2-day period in which a single bolus of analog has been shown to resist esterase degradation [63] and further, maximize cellular labeling without the need for added doses or replenishment). Second, the number of cells involved in each experiment (<10e7) coupled with the subfemtomolar mass spec detection sensitivity limit implies that only relatively abundant markers (e.g., glycoproteins expressed in the hundreds to thousands of copies per cell) will be detected by our methods; again, this feature is desired to ensure that our methods will have clinical relevance where sample size is likely to be limiting. Finally, as described in our previous publication [9], we use stringentTian et al. Clinical Proteomics (2015) 12:Page 9 ofstatistical cutoffs to avoid false positives. Together, these factors ?by design ?limit the number of glycoproteins that are identified by our method and ensure that the glycoproteins we identify will be sufficiently abundant and metabolically labeled with sufficient kinetics to be viable cancer biomarkers. Another matter of interest is the exact glycan structures that the non-natural azido-modified sialic acids label in cancer cells. In our previous experiments using 1,3,4-O-Bu3ManNAc, which increased levels of natural sialic acid by 75 in treated cells [9], the levels of sialylation were sufficiently higher in the treated cells to allow characterization of the new glycoforms by using mass spectrometry-based methods [64]. By comparison, treatment of cells with non-natur.

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