| Abstract: | Fucose sulfate was isolated from the egg jelly glycoproteins of two kinds of sea urchins, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus and Pseudocentrotus depressus, by mild acid hydrolysis and paper chromatography followed by charcoal and Sephadex G-25 column chromatography. The yields of fucose sulfate were 24 and 20% of the total fucan sulfate from H. pulcherrimus and P. depressus, respectively.On the basis of chemical analysis, periodate oxidation and infrared spectroscopy, the structure of the fucose sulfate of the jelly coat glycoproteins derived from two kinds of sea urchins was proposed to be L-fucose-4-sulfate. |
