glycans was carried out on a Shimadzu HPLC system equipped with a
fluorescence detector (RF 10 AXL; 320/400 nm). In the case of RP-HPLC,
a Hypersil ODS column (C18; Agilent) was used with 100 mM ammonium
acetate, pH 4.0 (buffer A) and 30% (v/v) methanol (buffer B); a gradient
of increasing buffer B (1% per minute) was programmed. The column
was calibrated daily in terms of glucose units (g.u.) with a pyridylaminated
partial dextran hydrolysate. For 2D-HPLC, either normal-phase HPLC
(Tosoh TSKgel Amide-80) with an inverse gradient of acetonitrile in
10 mM ammonium formate, pH 7, or combined hydrophobic-interaction
anionic-exchange HPLC (HIAX, Dionex IonPac AS11) with an inverse gradient
of acetonitrile in 800 mM ammonium acetate, pH 3, was applied as previously
described.4 (link),27 (link)