N-linked glycosylation of the M-protein variable region: Glycoproteogenomics reveals a new layer of personalized complexity in multiple myeloma.
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ABSTRACT: Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell malignancy characterized by a monoclonal expansion of plasma cells that secrete a characteristic M-protein. This M-protein is crucial for diagnosis and monitoring of MM in the blood of patients. Recent evidence has emerged that N-glycosylation of the M-protein variable (Fab) region contributes to M-protein pathogenicity, and that it is a risk factor for disease progression of plasma cell disorders. Current methodologies lack the specificity for a site specific glycoprofile of the Fab regions of M-proteins. Here, we introduce a novel glycoproteogenomics method that allows detailed M-protein glycoprofiling by integrating patient specific Fab region sequences (genomics) with glycoprofiling by glycoproteomics. Genomic analysis uncovered a more than two-fold increase in the Fab Light Chain N-glycosylation of M-proteins of patients with Multiple Myeloma compared to healthy individuals, pointing towards an association. Subsequent glycoproteogenomics analysis of 41 patients enrolled in the IFM 2009 clinical trial revealed that the majority of the sites were fully occupied with complex type glycans, distinguishable from Fc region glycans due to high levels of sialylation, fucosylation and bisecting structures. Together, glycoproteogenomics is a powerful tool to study de novo Fab N-glycosylation in plasma cell dyscrasias and possibly other fields.
INSTRUMENT(S): timsTOF Pro 2
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)
TISSUE(S): Blood Plasma
DISEASE(S): Multiple Myeloma
SUBMITTER: Hans Wessels
LAB HEAD: Hans Wessels
PROVIDER: PXD040718 | Pride | 2023-06-09
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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