Abstract
Seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) is an inflammatory process. In this pilot study, matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS)-based analyses were conducted to investigate the effects of SAR on serum N-glycome in a small dataset (n = 10 for both SAR patients and controls). It was detected that two N-glycan compositions (H6N5E2L1 and H6N5E1L2) were down-regulated in SAR patients. Additionally, five tri-antennary N-glycan traits, including both galactosylated and sialylated (A3GS and A3GL) and non-fucosylated (A3F0GE, A3F0GL, A3F0GS) ones, were decreased. Furthermore, three high-antennary and fucosylated N-glycan traits (A3F, A3EF and A4F) were increased in SAR patients compared to controls.
Graphical Abstract
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Acknowledgements
Sample preparation and mass spectrometric analysis of the study were performed in the Salih Research Group Laboratories (https://sareglab.org/) at Hacettepe University, Department of Chemistry, Ankara, Turkey.
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