Microscale preparation of even- and odd-numbered N-acetylheparosan oligosaccharides |
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Authors: | Minamisawa Toshikazu Suzuki Kiyoshi Kajimoto Naoko Iida Masami Maeda Hiroshi Hirabayashi Jun |
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Affiliation: | Glycostructure Analysis Team, Research Center for Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central-2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan. |
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Abstract: | In order to prepare a series of N-acetylheparosan (NAH)-related oligosaccharides, bacterial NAH produced in Escherichia coli strain K5 was partially depolymerized with heparitinase I into a mixture of even-numbered NAH oligosaccharides, having an unsaturated uronic acid (DeltaUA) at the non-reducing end. A mixture of odd-numbered oligosaccharides was derived by removing this DeltaUA in the aforementioned mixture by a 'trimming' reaction using mercury(II) acetate. Each oligosaccharide mixture was subjected to gel-filtration chromatography to generate a series of size-uniform NAH oligosaccharides of satisfactory purity (assessed by analytical anion-exchange HPLC), and their structures were identified by MALDITOF-MS, ESIMS, and 1H NMR analysis. As a result, a microscale preparation of a series of both even- and odd-numbered NAH oligosaccharides was achieved for the first time. The developed procedure is simple and systematic, and thus, should be valuable for providing not only research tools for heparin/heparan sulfate-specific enzymes and their binding proteins, but also precursor substrates with medical applications. |
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Keywords: | N-Acetylheparosan Heparitinase K5 polysaccharide Mass spectrometry Oligosaccharide |
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