title: Characterisation by mass spectrometry and 1H-NMR of novel hexasaccharides among the acidic O-linked carbohydrate chains of bovine submaxillary mucin.
abstract: The acidic oligosaccharide alditols released from bovine submaxillary-gland mucin by Carlson degradation were investigated by a combination of liquid secondary-ion mass spectrometry, methylation analysis and 1H-NMR. Among the largest structures identified were four branched hexasaccharides, three of them novel, comprising two separate pairs of structures. One pair contained the sequence Fuc(alpha 1-2)Gal(beta 1-4)[Fuc(alpha 1-3)]GlcNAc(beta 1-) (Fuc, L-fucose), at C3 of N-acetylgalactosaminitol and differed only by substitution at C6 by N-acetylneuraminic or N-glycolylneuraminic acid. The other pair also differed in substitution of the sialic acid linked at C6 and contained the GalNAc-(alpha 1-3)[Fuc(alpha 1-2)]Gal(beta 1-4)GlcNAc(beta 1-), sequence at C3 of N-acetylgalactosaminitol. The Lewis(y) and blood-group-A determinants of these sequences have not been found previously in the acidic oligosaccharides of bovine submaxillary-gland mucin, although they have recently been characterised in the neutral chains of bovine submaxillary-gland mucin.
authors.affiliation: Section of Clinical Mass Spectrometry, Medical Research Council Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, England.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chai
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Hounsell
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Cashmore
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rosankiewicz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feeney
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Lawson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry*; D002417:Cattle; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009077:Mucins / Q000737:chemistry*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011522:Protons; D013363:Submandibular Gland / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates; D009077:Mucins; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011522:Protons