Site-specific glycan analysis of human chorionic gonadotropin β-subunit from malignancies and pregnancy by liquid chromatography - Electrospray mass spectrometry

Glycobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1207-1218

  Valmu, Leena ^a   Alfthan, Henrik ^a   Hotakainen, Kristina ^a   Birken, Steven ^b   Stenman, Ulf Håkan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GLYCAN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; HORMONE ANTIBODY; LECTIN; SERINE;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FUCOSYLATION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TESTIS CANCER; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; URINALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBODIES; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; FUCOSE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PREGNANCY; SOFTWARE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TRYPSIN;

EID: 33751383272     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwl034     Document Type: Article

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