Structures of the asparagine-linked sugar chains of human chorionic gonadotropin from a patient with extragonadal germ cell tumour.
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) purified from the urine of a male patient with extragonadal germ cell tumour contained four asparagine-linked sugar chains in one molecule. The sugar chains were quantitatively released from the polypeptide moiety by hydrazinolysis and recovered as oligosaccharides after N-acetylation. The oligosaccharide mixture was separated into a neutral (N) and three acidic (A1, A2 and A3) fractions by anion-exchange column chromatography. By sequential exoglycosidase digestion, methylation analysis and lectin column chromatography, the structures of these oligosaccharides were found to be the same as those of female gestational choriocarcinoma hCGs. Both contain eight kinds of sugar chains: triantennary, abnormal and normal biantennary, and monoantennary complex-type sugar chain with or without a fucosylated core portion.
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Department of Biochemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Nishimura
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Teshima
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Ohkura
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Baba
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Kobata
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D000328:Adult; D001216:Asparagine / Q000032:analysis; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000032:analysis*; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000737:chemistry*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000032:analysis*
D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D001216:Asparagine