Mass-selected site-specific core-fucosylation of ceruloplasmin in alcohol-related hepatocellular carcinoma.

ABSTRACT: A mass spectrometry-based methodology has been developed to study changes in core-fucosylation of serum ceruloplasmin that are site-specific between cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The serum samples studied for these changes were from patients affected by cirrhosis or HCC with different etiologies, including alcohol, hepatitis B virus, or hepatitis C virus. The methods involved trypsin digestion of ceruloplasmin into peptides followed by Endo F3 digestion, which removed most of the glycan structure while retaining the innermost N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and/or core-fucose bound to the peptide. This procedure simplified the structures for further analysis by mass spectrometry, where four core-fucosylated sites (sites 138, 358, 397, and 762) were detected in ceruloplasmin. T

SUBMITTER: Yin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4059274 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature