title: Comparative study of asparagine-linked glycans of plasma T-kininogen in normal rats and during acute inflammation.
abstract: Rat T-kininogen has been separated into two molecular variants by affinity chromatography on concanavalin A (ConA): a ConA-reactive (ConA+) and a ConA-non-reactive (ConA-) fraction, from which carbohydrate chains were quantitatively released by hydrazinolysis. On the basis of high-resolution 400 MHz 1H-n.m.r. spectroscopy of the re-N-acetylated hydrazinolysates, the carbohydrate structures of the two ConA molecular variants of rat T-kininogen were established. The ConA-non-reactive species contains a single type of carbohydrate chain with the following structure: [formula: see text] The ConA-reactive fraction contains the same structure and the following additional one: [formula: see text] The relative abundance of the two molecular forms is profoundly affected during inflammation (ratio ConA+/ConA-: 44% in normal and 95% in inflamed T-kininogen), but no structural modification of the carbohydrate chains was observed.
authors.affiliation: Unité 36 I.N.S.E.R.M., Paris, France.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Baussant
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wieruszeski
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Strecker
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Montreuil
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alhenc-Gelas
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Michalski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001216:Asparagine; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D007249:Inflammation / Q000097:blood*; D007704:Kininogens / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012016:Reference Values
chemical_list: D007704:Kininogens; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D001216:Asparagine