Hydrophilic GO/Fe3O4/Au/PEG nanocomposites for highly selective enrichment of glycopeptides†
Abstract
GO/Fe3O4/Au/PEG nanocomposites were synthesized via bonding gold nanoparticles on magnetic graphene oxide using polyethylenimine as the reducing and immobilizing reagent, followed by thiol-terminal polyethylene glycol immobilization. With the use of this nanocomposite, 255 glycopeptides, mapped to 127 different glycoproteins, were identified from human serum, demonstrating its great potential for glycosylation analysis.