Research Article

Analysis of Urinary Prostate-Specific Antigen Glycoforms in Samples of Prostate Cancer and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia

Table 2

Identified human seminal PSA glycopeptides.

M + 3HGlycan compositionAbundance
Peak area Normalized

665.6575 H3N23.06E + 060.51
720.0094 H4N29.44E + 061.57
773.6926 H5N22.20E + 073.67
836.0542 H4N3F15.91E + 060.98
884.4000 H4N3S11.10E + 071.84
895.4034 H6N35.01E + 060.83
898.0755 H3N4S14.10E + 060.68
933.0860 H4N3S1F12.26E + 073.77
946.7615 H3N4S1F15.84E + 060.97
952.0931 H4N4S15.41E + 060.90
957.7649 H5N4F15.80E + 060.96
992.4352 H6N3S14.24E + 077.06
1000.7791 H4N4S1F11.10E + 071.83
1006.1107 H5N4S11.12E + 071.87
1014.4546 H3N5S1F17.59E + 061.26
1019.7863 H4N5S14.20E + 060.70
1054.7967 H5N4S1F11.92E + 073.20
1068.4722 H4N5S1F17.81E + 061.30
1103.1425 H5N4S22.80E + 074.65
1116.8181 H4N5S21.20E + 071.99
1151.8285 H5N4S2F16.94E + 0711.54
1157.1601 H6N4S29.35E + 061.56
1165.5040 H4N5S2F12.01E + 073.34

(a) Monoisotopic masses are given throughout.
(b) The abbreviations of glycans are shown: H: hexose (Hex); N: N-acetylhexosamine (HexNAc); S: sialic acid (NeuAc); F: fucose (dHex)
(c) Normalized means the normalized abundance, which is the level of PSA glycosylation.