%0 Journal Article %J Mol Cell Proteomics %D 2015 %T Unravelling glucan recognition systems by glycome microarrays using the designer approach and mass spectrometry %A Palma, A. S. %A Liu, Y. %A Zhang, H. %A Zhang, Y. %A McCleary, B. V. %A Yu, G. %A Huang, Q. %A Guidolin, L. S. %A Ciocchini, A. E. %A Torosantucci, A. %A Wang, D. %A Carvalho, A. L. %A Fontes, C. M. %A Mulloy, B. %A Childs, R. A. %A Feizi, T. %A Chai, W. %R 10.1074/mcp.M115.048272 %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25670804 %X

Glucans are polymers of D-glucose with differing linkages in linear or branched sequences. They are constituents of microbial and plant cell-walls and involved in important bio-recognition processes including immunomodulation, anti-cancer activities, pathogen virulence and plant cell-wall biodegradation. Translational possibilities for these activities in medicine and biotechnology are considerable. High-throughput micro-methods are needed to screen proteins for recognition of specific glucan sequences as a lead to structure-function studies and their exploitation. We describe construction of a glucome microarray, the first sequence-defined glycome-scale microarray, using a designer approach from targeted ligand-bearing glucans in conjunction with a novel high-sensitivity mass spectrometric sequencing method, as a screening tool to assign glucan recognition motifs. The glucome microarray comprises 153 oligosaccharide probes with high purity, representing major sequences in glucans. The negative-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation was used for complete linkage analysis of gluco-oligosaccharides in linear homo and hetero and branched sequences. The system is validated using antibodies and carbohydrate-binding modules known to target α- or β-glucans in different biological contexts, extending knowledge on their specificities, and applied to reveal new information on glucan recognition by two signalling molecules of the immune system against pathogens: Dectin-1 and DC-SIGN. The sequencing of the glucan oligosaccharides by the MS method and their interrogation on the microarrays provides detailed information on linkage, sequence and chain length requirements of glucan-recognizing proteins, and are a sensitive means of revealing unsuspected sequences in the polysaccharides.

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