Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (7): 1275.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20150062

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Comparative Analysis of O-glycans from Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma HepG2 and Normal Liver Cells L02

PAN Liying, GU Xiao, WANG Chengjian, QIANG Shan, HUANG Linjuan, ZHANG Ying*(), 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:2015-01-19 Online:2015-07-10 Published:2015-06-17
  • Contact: ZHANG Ying,WANG Zhongfu E-mail:zhangying@nwu.edu.cn;wangzhf@nwu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31370804, 31170773) and the Scientific Research Program Funded by the Department of Education of Shaanxi Province, China(No.2013JK0714)

Abstract:

HepG2(a primary hepatocellular carcinoma cell line) and L02(ones derived from normal liver tissue) cells were chosen as model cell lines for research. The O-glycans of the total proteins extracted from HepG2 and L02 cells were released by Carlson reductive β-elimination. The released O-glycans previously purified by Dowex 50 WX8-400 cation exchange resin and C18 cartridges were identified by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry(ESI-MS)and MS/MS. For comparision studies, β-cyclodextrin was used as the internal standard for relative quantitative analysis of the O-glycans derived from HepG2 and L02 cells by MS. As results, 10 O-glycans were observed in HepG2 cell line and 9 O-glycans were detected in L02 cell line. Moreover, 9 O-glycans were observed in both HepG2 and L02 cells, wherears 1 truncated O-glycan assigned as H1A1(NeuAc-GalNAc, sialyl Tn antigen, ubiquitous in cancer cells), was only found in HepG2 cells. t-Test results show that 5 and 2 O-glycans in HepG2 cells have significant differences(P<0.01 and P<0.05, recpectively), when compared to those of L02 cells. Our studies show methodological significance in structural investigation of O-glycans expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma and early biomarker discovery in clinical diagnose.

Key words: HepG2 cell, L02 cell, O-glycans, ESI-MS

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