So You Discovered a Potential Glycan-Based Biomarker; Now What? We Developed a High-Throughput Method for Quantitative Clinical Glycan Biomarker Validation

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Glycomic-based approaches to discover potential biomarkers have shown great promise in their ability to distinguish between healthy and diseased individuals; these methods can identify when aberrant glycosylation is significant, but they cannot practically be adapted into widely implemented diagnostic assays because they are too complex, expensive, and low-throughput. We have developed a new strategy that addresses challenges associated with sample preparation, sample throughput, instrumentation needs, and data analysis to transfer the valuable knowledge provided by protein glycosylation into a clinical environment. Notably, the detection limits of the assay are in the single-digit picomole range. Proof of principle is demonstrated by quantifying the changes in the sialic acid content in fetuin. As the sialic acid content in proteins varies in a number of disease states, this example demonstrates the utility of the method for biomarker analysis. Furthermore, the developed method can be adapted to other biologically important saccharides, affording a broad array of quantitative glycomic analyses that are accessible in a high-throughput, plate-reader format. These studies enable glycomic-based biomarker discovery efforts to transition through the difficult landscape of developing a potential biomarker into a clinical assay.

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2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

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ACS omega - 5(2020), 12 vom: 31. März, Seite 6270-6276

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shipman, Joshua T [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Hanna T [VerfasserIn]
Desaire, Heather [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 06.11.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1021/acsomega.9b03334

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NLM308441397