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Clinical glycomics for the diagnosis of congenital disorders of glycosylation.

Abstract
Clinical glycomics comprises a spectrum of different analytical methodologies to analyze glycan structures, which provides insights into the mechanisms of glycosylation. Within clinical diagnostics, glycomics serves as a functional readout of genetic variants, and can form a basis for therapy development, as was described for PGM1-CDG. Integration of glycomics with genomics has resulted in the elucidation of previously unknown disorders of glycosylation, namely CCDC115-CDG, TMEM199-CDG, ATP6AP1-CDG, MAN1B1-CDG, and PGM1-CDG. This review provides an introduction into protein glycosylation and presents the different glycomics methodologies ranging from gel electrophoresis to mass spectrometry (MS) and from free glycans to intact glycoproteins. The role of glycomics in the diagnosis of congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) is presented, including a diagnostic flow chart and an overview of glycomics data of known CDG subtypes. The review ends with some future perspectives, showing upcoming technologies as system wide mapping of the N- and O-glycoproteome, intact glycoprotein profiling and analysis of sugar metabolism. These new advances will provide additional insights and opportunities to develop personalized therapy. This is especially true for inborn errors of metabolism, which are amenable to causal therapy, because interventions through supplementation therapy can directly target the pathogenesis at the molecular level.
AuthorsNurulamin Abu Bakar, Dirk J Lefeber, Monique van Scherpenzeel
JournalJournal of inherited metabolic disease (J Inherit Metab Dis) Vol. 41 Issue 3 Pg. 499-513 (05 2018) ISSN: 1573-2665 [Electronic] United States
PMID29497882 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)
Chemical References
  • Glycoproteins
  • Polysaccharides
Topics
  • Algorithms
  • Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (diagnosis, metabolism)
  • Glycomics (methods)
  • Glycoproteins (analysis)
  • Humans
  • Mass Spectrometry (methods)
  • Polysaccharides (analysis)

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