title: Isolation and structural characterization of a mono-sulfated isoglobotetraosylceramide, the first sulfoglycosphingolipid of the isoglobo-series, from rat kidney.
abstract: A novel sulfoglycosphingolipid based on the isoglobo-series core structure was isolated from rat kidney and purified by column chromatographies with DEAE-Sephadex and silica beads. The structure was characterized by solvolysis, compositional analysis, proton NMR spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, methylation analysis and liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry (LSIMS). The characteristic fragment ions for a sulfate and a sulfated N-acetylhexosamine were observed in LSIMS spectra. The two-dimensional chemical-shift-correlated spectroscopy (COSY) and nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy experiments evidenced the presence of a 3-O-sulfated N-acetylgalactosamine and a Gal alpha 1-3Gal structure in the molecule. The major ceramide consisted of 4-hydroxysphinganine linked to a C24 nonhydroxy fatty acid, deduced from both compositional analysis and LSIMS. From the above results, the following structure was established for this glycolipid: HSO3-3GalNAc beta 1-3Gal alpha 1-3Gal beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1Cer, isoglobotetraosylceramide (iGb4Cer) IV3-sulfate. Rat kidney also contained globotetraosylceramide (Gb4Cer) IV3-sulfate which has a carbohydrate core identical to that from human kidney. The yields of iGb4Cer IV3-sulfate and Gb4Cer IV3-sulfate were 0.27 and 0.07 nmol/g wet tissue, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tadano-Aritomi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kasama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Handa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ishizuka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002845:Chromatography; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D005915:Globosides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006028:Glycosphingolipids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007668:Kidney / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008745:Methylation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013431:Sulfates / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D005915:Globosides; D006028:Glycosphingolipids; D013431:Sulfates; C004642:cytolipin R