Abstract

Efficient separation and enrichment of low-abundance glycopeptides from complex biological samples is the key to the discovery of disease biomarkers. In this work, a new material was prepared by coating copper tetra(N-carbonylacrylic) aminephthalocyanine and iminodiacetic acid onto poly(glycidyl methacrylate-pentaerythritol triacrylate) monolith. The monolith was applied to polymer monolithic microextraction for specific capture of glycopeptides coupled with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The developed monolith exhibited satisfactory efficiency for glycopeptide enrichment with high selectivity and detection sensitivity. When the tryptic digest of immunoglobulin G was used as the sample, total 24 glycopeptides were identified and the detection limit was determined as 5fmol. When the approach was applied to the analysis of glycopeptides in the mixture of bovine serum albumin and immunoglobulin G (100:1, m/m) digests, 16 glycopeptides could still be observed. Moreover, the monolith was successfully applied to the selective enrichment of glycopeptides from human serum digests, exhibiting great practicability in identifying low-abundance glycopeptides in complex biological samples.

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