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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Enzymol. 2017 Jan 9;585:431–477. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.11.006

Table 14.1.

Release of glycans from glycoproteins is attained through different methods.

N-glycan Chemical Release
Using anhydrous hydrazine at 95 °C (Takasaki, Mizuochi, & Kobata, 1982)
Oxidation using sodium hypochlorite (Song, Ju, Lasanajak, Kudelka, Smith, & Cummings, 2016)
Enzymatic Release
PNGase F purified from Flavobacterium meningosepticum (Takahashi et al., 1978; Tarentino, Gomez, & Plummer, 1985)
PNGase A purified from almond Prunus amygdalus var. dulcis (Takahashi et al., 1978; Tretter et al., 1991)
Endoglycosidase F1 purified from Elizabethkingia miricola (Trimble et al., 1991)
Endoglycosidase F2 purified from Elizabethkingia miricola (Trimble et al., 1991)
Endoglycosidase F3 purified from Elizabethkingia miricola (Trimble et al., 1991)
Endoglycosidase H purified from Streptomyces plicatus (Tarentino & Maley, 1974; Tarentino, Plummer, & Maley, 1974)
Endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase (Endo-M) purified from Mucor hiemalis (Kadowaki, Yamamoto, Fujisaki, Izumi, Tochikura, & Yokoyama, 1990)
O-glycan Chemical Release
Using anhydrous hydrazine at 60 °C (Patel, Bruce, Merry, Bigge, Wormald, Jaques et al., 1993)
Alkaline-β-elimination (Carlson, 1968)
Non-reductive β-elimination (Hulsmeier, Gehrig, Geyer, Sack, Gottstein, Deplazes et al., 2002)
Oxidation using sodium hypochlorite (Song et al., 2016)
Enzymatic Release
Endo-α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (Huang et al., 1972)
Enzymatic/Chemical Release
Pronase followed by solid phase permethylation (Goetz, Novotny, & Mechref, 2009)