N-Glycan structures of squid rhodopsin. |
| |
| Authors: | Noriko Takahashi Katsuyoshi Masuda Kenji Hiraki Kazuo Yoshihara Hung-Hsiang Huang Kay-Hooi Khoo Koichi Kato |
| |
| Affiliation: | Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan. ntakahas@phar.nagoya-cu.ac.jp |
| |
| Abstract: | To determine the glycoforms of squid rhodopsin, N-glycans were released by glycoamidase A digestion, reductively aminated with 2-aminopyridine, and then subjected to 2D HPLC analysis [Takahashi, N., Nakagawa, H., Fujikawa, K., Kawamura, Y. & Tomiya, N. (1995) Anal. Biochem.226, 139-146]. The major glycans of squid rhodopsin were shown to possess the alpha1-3 and alpha1-6 difucosylated innermost GlcNAc residue found in glycoproteins produced by insects and helminths. By combined use of 2D HPLC, electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry and permethylation and gas chromatography-electron ionization mass spectrometry analyses, it was revealed that most (85%) of the N-glycans exhibit the novel structure Manalpha1-6(Manalpha1-3)Manbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta1-4(Galbeta1-4Fucalpha1-6)(Fucalpha1-3)GlcNAc. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
|
|
