Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 237.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20130960

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Qualitation and Quantitation for Comparative Analysis of N-glycans from Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma HepG2 and Normal Liver Cells L02 by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

PAN Liying, WANG Chengjian, YUAN Jiangbei, ZHANG Ying, HUANG Linjuan, WANG Zhongfu*()   

  1. Key Laboratory for Western China Resource Biology and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
  • Received:2013-09-29 Online:2014-02-10 Published:2013-12-11
  • Contact: WANG Zhongfu E-mail:wangzhf@nwu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31170773, 21375103)

Abstract:

HepG2, a primary hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, and L02 derived from normal liver tissue, were chosen as model cell lines. In this work, the total proteins of HepG2 and L02 cells were extracted and enzymatically hydrolyzed by Peptide-N-glycosidase F(PNGase F). Then the released N-glycans were purified by microcrystalline cellulose and graphitized carbon columns. The structure of the purified N-glycans was identified by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry(ESI-MS)and MS/MS. To compare the difference of N-glycans between HepG2 and L02 cells, β-cyclodextrin was used as the internal standard to relative quantitative analysis of the N-glycans by MS. As results, 26 N-glycans are observed in both HepG2 and L02 cells. The amounts of high-mannose, sialylated, as well as fucosylated and sialylated N-glycans of HepG2 were higher than those of L02 cells. Among them, 15 kinds of N-glycans of HepG2 cells show very significant difference(p<0.01) and 1 kind of N-glycan show significant difference(p<0.05), compared to those of L02 cells. Our studies show potential in investigation of structure partterns of N-glycans expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma and in finding early biomarker in liver cancer diagnose.

Key words: Primary hepatocellular carionma cell line(HepG2 cell), Normal liver cell line(L02 cell), N-Glycans, Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

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