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Predicting Structural Motifs of Glycosaminoglycans using Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy and Random Forest

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Riedel, J.; Lettow, M.; Grabarics, M.; Götze, M.; Miller, R.L.;Boons, G.J.; Meijer, G.; von Helden, G.; Szekeres, G.P.*; Pagel, K.* – 2023

Title
Predicting Structural Motifs of Glycosaminoglycans using Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy and Random Forest
Author
Riedel, J.; Lettow, M.; Grabarics, M.; Götze, M.; Miller, R.L.;Boons, G.J.; Meijer, G.; von Helden, G.; Szekeres, G.P.*; Pagel, K.*
Date
2023-03
Type
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In recent years, glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) have emerged into the focus of biochemical and biomedical research due to their importance in a variety of physiological processes. These molecules show great diversity, which makes their analysis highly challenging. A promising tool for identifying the structural motifs and conformation of shorter GAG chains is cryogenic gas-phase infrared (IR) spectroscopy. In this work, the cryogenic gas-phase IR spectra of mass-selected heparan sulfate (HS) di-, tetra-, and hexasaccharide ions were recorded to extract vibrational features that are characteristic to structural motifs. The data were augmented with chondroitin sulfate (CS) disaccharide spectra to assemble a training library for random forest (RF) classifiers. These were used to discriminate between GAG classes (CS or HS) and different sulfate positions (2-O-, 4-O-, 6-O-, and N-sulfation). With optimized data preprocessing and RF modeling, a prediction accuracy of >97% was achieved for HS tetra- and hexasaccharides based on a training set of only 21 spectra. These results exemplify the importance of combining gas-phase cryogenic IR ion spectroscopy with machine learning to improve the future analytical workflow for GAG sequencing and that of other biomolecules, such as metabolites.

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