Peanut agglutinin and β-cyclodextrin functionalized polymer monolith: Microextraction of IgG galactosylation coupled with online MS detection

•Poly(HEMA-EDMA-PNA-β-CD) monolith integrated with β-CD and PNA was prepared.•The monolithic column was coupled with online Orbitrap MS.•The functionalized monolith has high preconcentration abilities for IgG galactosylation glycopeptides.

A facile online method coupling polymer monolithic microextraction (PMME) with mass spectrometry (MS) was developed for the detection of Immunoglobulin G (IgG) galactosylation glycopeptides. A peanut agglutinin-β-cyclodextrin (PNA-β-CD) functionalized poly(hydroxyethyl methylacrylate-ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate) monolith was designed via a click reaction. Thanking to the specificity of PNA-β-CD for the targets, the material exhibited enhanced enrichment selectivity and extraction efficiency for IgG galactosylation glycopeptides. Under optimal conditions, the developed method gave a linear range of 0.005-5 pmol for IgG glycopeptides with the regression coefficient greater than 0.9990, and the detection limit of IgG galactosylation glycopeptides as low as 0.5 fmol was achieved. The PMME-MS method was applied to IgG galactosylation glycopeptides in real samples including human serum and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) cell lysate. A series of unique IgG galactosylation glycopeptides were captured by the monolith in the complex samples, indicating satisfactory enrichment ability for IgG galactosylation glycopeptides. The quick and integrated online PMME-MS method exhibited high selectivity for IgG galactosylation, demonstrating its perspectives on the development and broad applications of MS in studying galactosylation proteins regulated biological processes.

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