PMID- 23969014 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140506 LR - 20151119 IS - 1096-0309 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2697 (Linking) VI - 443 IP - 1 DP - 2013 Dec 1 TI - Enhancement of ovarian tumor classification by improved reproducibility in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of serum glycans. PG - 58-65 LID - S0003-2697(13)00378-3 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ab.2013.07.048 [doi] AB - The serum N-glycome is a promising source of biomarker discovery. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) profiling of serum N-glycans was attempted for differentiating borderline ovarian tumor from benign cases, for which a low data spread is essential. An experimental protocol using matrix-prespotted MALDI plates and fast vacuum drying of the loaded N-glycan samples was developed, thereby minimizing the intensity variations in the replicates to an average relative standard deviation (RSD) of 3.96% for the highest N-glycan peak (m/z 1485.53) of the Sigma-Aldrich serum standard. When applied to sera of ovarian tumors, this procedure exhibited an average RSD of 5.74% for m/z 1485.53 and of 7.28% for all MS peaks. This improved reproducibility combined with the OVA-Beyond((R)) screening software resulted in 75.1% and 79.4% correct classification for benign and borderline tumor samples, respectively, while the classification rates by the conventional ovarian tumor marker CA-125 were 54.4% and 53.1%, respectively. Both true positive rate and true negative rate fluctuated with small numbers of markers and converged as the number of markers increased. Cross-validations were performed in comparison with CA-125. These results suggest that our optimized process for MALDI-TOF MS of the serum glycome has a great potential for the screening of early stage ovarian cancer. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Park, Chang Won AU - Park CW AD - ASTA, Inc., Gyeonggi Biocenter, Eui-dong, Youngtong-gu, Suwon 443-270, South Korea. FAU - Jo, Yohahn AU - Jo Y FAU - Jo, Eung Joon AU - Jo EJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20130819 PL - United States TA - Anal Biochem JT - Analytical biochemistry JID - 0370535 RN - 0 (Biomarkers, Tumor) RN - 0 (CA-125 Antigen) RN - 0 (Polysaccharides) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Biomarkers, Tumor/*blood MH - CA-125 Antigen/blood MH - Cystadenoma, Mucinous/*blood/diagnosis MH - Cystadenoma, Serous/*blood/diagnosis MH - Diagnosis, Differential MH - Endometriosis/blood/diagnosis MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Middle Aged MH - Ovarian Neoplasms/*blood/diagnosis MH - Polysaccharides/*blood MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization MH - Teratoma/*blood/diagnosis OTO - NOTNLM OT - MALDI-TOF OT - Mass spectrometry OT - Matrix-prespotted plate OT - N-glycan OT - RSD EDAT- 2013/08/24 06:00 MHDA- 2014/05/07 06:00 CRDT- 2013/08/24 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/07/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/07/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/08/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/08/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/05/07 06:00 [medline] AID - S0003-2697(13)00378-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ab.2013.07.048 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Biochem. 2013 Dec 1;443(1):58-65. doi: 10.1016/j.ab.2013.07.048. Epub 2013 Aug 19.