Population studies of Vitamin D Binding Protein microheterogeneity by mass spectrometry lead to characterization of its genotype-dependent O-glycosylation patterns

J Proteome Res. 2008 Sep;7(9):4143-53. doi: 10.1021/pr8002936. Epub 2008 Aug 8.

Abstract

Mass spectrometric evidence presented here characterizes the genotype-dependent glycosylation patterns for each of the three major allele products of Vitamin D Binding Protein found in the general human population. Findings based on the analysis of over 100 individual plasma samples demonstrated that all DBP allele products, except GC*2, are modified (10-25 mol%) with a linear (NeuNAc) 1(Gal) 1(GalNAc) 1 trisaccharide and, to a much lesser extent (1-5 mol%) with a trisaccharide-independent (Gal) 1(GalNAc) 1 dissaccharide. GC*2 protein contains the disaccharide but remains completely free of the trisaccharide, even in heterozygous individuals possessing a second gene product that is modified with the trisaccharide. Thus, all allelic forms of DBP except GC*2 possess two independent O-glycosylation sites occupied by separate, yet consistently isomass oligosaccharides and, despite a consensus sequence, lack N-glycosylation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Genotype
  • Glycosylation
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Population Surveillance*
  • Proteome
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / methods*
  • Vitamin D-Binding Protein / chemistry*

Substances

  • Proteome
  • Vitamin D-Binding Protein