Investigation of genetic variants of alpha-1 acid glycoprotein by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

Budai, Lívia and Ozohanics, Olivér and Ludányi, Krisztina and Drahos, László and Kremmer, Tibor and Krenyácz, Judit and Vékey, Károly (2009) Investigation of genetic variants of alpha-1 acid glycoprotein by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, 393 (3). pp. 991-998. ISSN 1618-2642

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Abstract

Genetic variants of human plasma alpha-1 acid glycoprotein (AGP) have been studied in cancer, compared with a group of healthy control. AGP has four genetic variants: AGP F1, F2, and S variants correspond to the ORM1 gene whereas AGP A corresponds to the ORM2 gene. The proportion of ORM1 and ORM2 variants were studied in plasma using a novel UPLC–MS method. Plasma total AGP level was 0.5 ± 0.2 g L−1 and the proportions of the ORM1 and ORM2 variants were 76.3 ± 8.2% and 23.7 ± 8.2%, respectively. In cancer plasma AGP levels increased fourfold and the proportion of ORM1 variants increased to 88.7 ± 6.8%. Changes in the proportion of genetic variants due to cancer were clearly significant, as shown by statistical analysis. Three different cancer types have been studied, lymphoma, melanoma, and ovarian cancer. The results did not show any difference depending on cancer type. The results indicate that, in accordance with prior expectations, the ORM1 variant is predominantly responsible for the acute-phase property of AGP.

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