Structure of heparan sulfate from the fresh water mollusc Anomantidae sp: Sequencing of its disaccharide units |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology and the Cancer Cell Biology and Signaling Program, Kimmel Cancer Center, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA;2. Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Institut für Allgemeine Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Klinikum der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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Abstract: | - 1.1. The disaccharide sequences of a heparan sulfate isolated from Anomantidae sp. was determined with the aid of heparitinase I, heparitinase II from Flavobacterium heparinum, mollusc β-glucuronidase and α-N-acetylglucosaminidase besides nitrous acid degradation and chemical analyses.
- 2.2. Like the mammalian heparan sulfates the mollusc heparan sulfate is composed of different oligosaccharide blocks of N-acetylated disaccharides, N-sulfated disaccharides and N,6-sulfated disaccharides and has in its nonreducing end the monosaccharide glucosamine 2,6-disulfate.
- 3.3. The oligosaccharides produced by heparitinase I degradation contain at their reducing ends a N-acetylated, 6-sulfated disaccharide.
- 4.4. These and other results lead to the conclusion that the general structure of the heparan sulfate is maintained through evolution.
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