Isolation of a very high molecular weight polylactosamine from an ovarian cyst mucin of blood group

Conference · Thu May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986 · Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States)

OSTI ID:7108779

Wu, A S.S.; Bush, C A

Treatment of a blood group A active ovarian cyst mucin glycoprotein with alkaline borohydride under conditions expected to cleave-O-glycosidically linked carbohydrate chains releases a polysaccharide of average molecular weight 25,000 daltons. It contains no peptide or mannose at the 1% level and carbohydrate analysis gives fuc:galNAc:gal:glcNAc in the ratio of 1:1:2.5:2.5. The /sup 13/C and /sup 1/H NMR spectra show that the polysaccharide has non-reducing terminal side chains of the structure galNAc(..cap alpha..-1 ..-->.. 3)(fuc(..cap alpha..-1 ..-->.. 2)) gal(..beta..-1 ..-->.. 3) glcNAc (i.e. a type 1 chain). Periodate oxidation removes all the fucose and galNAc from the non-reducing terminal but leaves intact the backbone composed of ..beta..-linked gal and glcNAc as would be expected for a polylactosamine. They conclude that this is a high molecular weight polylactosamine which is related to the asparagine linked polylactosamine chains of cell surface glycoproteins which have been implicated in cell differentiation. However, the blood group A polysaccharide from the ovarian cyst mucin is unique in several respects. It has a much larger molecular weight than even the erythroglycan of the red cell membrane protein, band 3, and is linked to the protein by an -O-glycosidic bond rather than the -N-asparagine linkage of the previously known polylactosamines which have a trimannosyl core. Its blood group A side chains are on a type one core rather than type 2 which is found on other polylactosamines.

• Research Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
• OSTI ID: 7108779
• Report Number(s): CONF-8606151-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States) Journal Volume: 45:6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
BLOOD GROUPS
BODY
BOROHYDRIDES
BORON COMPOUNDS
CARBOHYDRATES
CARBON 13
CARBON ISOTOPES
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
FEMALE GENITALS
GLUCOPROTEINS
GONADS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MAGNETIC RESONANCE
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
MOLECULAR WEIGHT
NMR SPECTRA
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
NUCLEI
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANS
OVARIES
POLYSACCHARIDES
PROTEINS
RESONANCE
SACCHARIDES
SPECTRA
STABLE ISOTOPES