1. Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, U.S.A.;2. Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry, University of Utrecht, Croesestraat 79, 3522 AD Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract:
The oligosaccharides of chick embryo type I procollagen were isolated from the carboxyl-terminal propeptide fragment by exhaustive digestion with papain and pronase, and then purified as a mixture of glycopeptides. The structures of the oligosaccharides were established by high-resolution 1H-NMR spectroscopy and found to be a mixture with respect to the non-reducing terminal residues as shown below: