Jun-Ichi Furukawa

Prof. Jun-Ichi Furukawa


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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6 March 2023 in Glycoconjugate Journal
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HHHisatoshi Hanamatsu
Hisatoshi Hanamatsu
YMYoshiaki Miura
Yoshiaki Miura
TNTakashi Nishikaze
Takashi Nishikaze
IYIkuko Yokota
Ikuko Yokota
KHKentaro Homan
Kentaro Homan
JFJun-Ichi Furukawa
Jun-Ichi Furukawa

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NMNobuaki Miura
Nobuaki Miura
HHHisatoshi Hanamatsu
Hisatoshi Hanamatsu
IYIkuko Yokota
Ikuko Yokota
KAKeiko Akasaka-Manya
Keiko Akasaka-Manya
HMHiroshi Manya
Hiroshi Manya
JFJun-Ichi Furukawa
Jun-Ichi Furukawa
Glycans are involved in many fundamental cellular processes such as growth, differentiation, and morphogenesis. However, their broad structural diversity makes analysis difficult. Glycomics via mass spectrometry has focused on the composition of glycans, but informatics analysis has not kept pace with the development of instrumentation and measurement techniques. We developed Toolbox Accelerating Glycomics (TAG), in which glycans can be added manually to the glycan list that can be freely designed with labels and sialic acid modifications, and fast processing is possible. In the present work, we improved TAG for large-scale analysis such as cohort analysis of serum samples. The sialic acid linkage-specific alkylamidation (SALSA) method converts differences in linkages such as α2,3- and α2,6-linkages of sialic acids into differences in mass. Glycans modified by SALSA and several structures discovered in recent years were added to the glycan list. A routine to generate calibration curves has been implemented to explore quantitation. These improvements are based on redefinitions of residues and glycans in the TAG List to incorporate information on glycans that could not be attributed because it was not assumed in the previous version of TAG. These functions were verified through analysis of purchased sera and 74 spectra with linearity at the level of R2 > 0.8 with 81 estimated glycan structures obtained including some candidate of rare glycans such as those with the N,N’-diacetyllactosediamine structure, suggesting they can be applied to large-scale analyses.