Variability in the carbazole assay for N-desulfonated/N-acylated heparin derivatives |
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Authors: | Hattan Christopher M Kerns Robert J |
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Institution: | Division of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States. |
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Abstract: | The carbazole assay is commonly employed to quantify heparin and other uronic acid-containing polysaccharides. Heparin-derived standard curves are often employed to quantify solutions of various natural and unnatural heparin structures that have different levels of sulfate substitution, different levels of N-sulfo and N-acetyl groups, and other structural changes as a consequence of reducing molecular weight. Recent studies in our laboratory have focused on chemically modified heparin derivatives comprised of structurally diverse N-acyl moieties substituted into heparin in place of N-sulfo groups. We report here that although differing degrees of 2-N-sulfo-, 2-N-acetyl- or 2-amino-d-glucosamine residues within heparin do not affect signal intensity in the carbazole assay, replacing N-sulfo groups in heparin with structurally diverse N-acyl moieties affords products that display significant variation in the assay. The structure of different N-acyl groups, and to a lesser extent the degree of N-acylation by individual N-acyl groups, is shown to variably alter signal intensity in the carbazole assay even though content and structure of uronic acid residues is unaltered. |
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Keywords: | Carbazole assay Heparin Heparin derivatives |
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