Glycopeptides with unusual glycans or poor peptide backbone fragmentation in tandem mass spectrometry are unaccounted for in typical site-specific glycoproteomics analysis and thus remain unidentified. Here, we develop a glycoproteomics tool, Glyco-Decipher, to address these issues. Glyco-Decipher conducts glycan database-independent peptide matching and exploits the fragmentation pattern of shared peptide backbones in glycopeptides to improve the spectrum interpretation. We benchmark Glyco-Decipher on several large-scale datasets, demonstrating that it identifies more peptide-spectrum matches than Byonic, MSFragger-Glyco, StrucGP and pGlyco 3.0, with a 33.5%-178.5% increase in the number of identified glycopeptide spectra. The database-independent and unbiased profiling of attached glycans enables the discovery of 164 modified glycans in mouse tissues, including glycans with chemical or biological modifications. By enabling in-depth characterization of site-specific protein glycosylation, Glyco-Decipher is a promising tool for advancing glycoproteomics analysis in biological research.
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Fang, Z., Qin, H., Mao, J., Wang, Z., Zhang, N., Wang, Y., … Ye, M. (2022). Glyco-Decipher enables glycan database-independent peptide matching and in-depth characterization of site-specific N-glycosylation. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29530-y
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