was used to separate N-glycans. A CM 5000 series
HPLC (Chromaster, Hitachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan) with a TSKgel
amide-80 column (150 mm × 2.0 mm, particle size of 5 μm,
Tosoh Bioscience GmbH, Griesheim, Germany) was used for the first-dimension
separation, and a fraction collector (FC204, Gilson, Middleton, WI)
was used for fraction collection. The mobile phases used in HPLC were
deionized water (solution A) and HPLC-grade acetonitrile (solution
B), and the conditions for the TSKgel amide-80 column were as follows:
the flow rate was 0.2 mL/min; the gradient was changed linearly from A = 35% and B = 65% at t = 0 to A = 45% and B = 55% at t = 50 min.
The fractions collected from the first
HPLC eluents were injected into the second HPLC instrument (Chromaster,
Hitachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan) with a Hypercarb column (2.1 mm
× 150 mm or 2.1 mm × 100 mm, particle size of 3 μm,
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) for the second-dimension separation.
The HPLC conditions for the Hypercarb column were as follows: the
flow rate was 0.2 mL/min; the gradient was changed linearly from A = 92% and B = 8% at t = 0 to A = 82% and B = 18% at t = 30 min. A fraction collector (FC204, Gilson, Middleton)
was used for fraction collection.