The antigenic determinants recognized by three monoclonal antibodies to keratan sulphate involve sulphated hepta- or larger oligosaccharides of the poly(N-acetyllactosamine) series.
The carbohydrate determinants of keratan sulphate recognized by three monoclonal antibodies (5-D-4, 1-B-4 and MZ15) have been investigated by solid-phase radioimmunoassay using bovine corneal keratan sulphate as the immobilized reference antigen. The antibodies appeared highly specific for sulphated poly(N-acetyllactosamine) sequences, for their binding was strongly inhibited by preparations of keratan sulphate, but not by glycoproteins with non-sulphated poly(N-acetyllactosamine) sequences of I and i antigen types, a desulphated keratan sulphate hexasaccharide, an array of neutral and sulphated mono- and disaccharides and other glycosaminoglycans. Inhibition of binding assays using a series of structurally characterized sulphated di, tetra-, hexa-, octa- and decasaccharides, and partially characterized larger oligosaccharides, isolated from bovine corneal keratan sulphate after digestion with endo-beta-galactosidase (see preceding two papers in this journal) showed that the smallest oligosaccharide reactive with all three antibodies was the linear pentasulphated hexasaccharide, E-II although antibody 1-B-4 reacted with a tetrasulphated analogue. The heptasulphated octasaccharide, G-III, was more active; among the structurally characterized keratan sulphate oligosaccharides the nonasulphated decasaccharide, I-IV, was the most active. Thus, the hepta- and octasaccharide sequences, indicated by brackets below are proposed as candidate antigenic structures recognized by the three monoclonal antibodies. (Formula: see text). Antibody 5-D-4 differs from the other two antibodies in reacting relatively strongly with a minor oligosaccharide which chromatographs as a hexasulphated octasaccharide, G-I, and most strongly with a minor sulphated, linear dodecasaccharide, J-II, which has been partially characterized [Tang, P.W., Scudder, P., Mehmet, H., Hounsell, E. F. & Feizi, T., unpublished results] and may contain N-sulphated glucosamine residues.
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Hounsell
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Caterson
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D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D003315:Cornea / Q000032:analysis; D003429:Cross Reactions; D000939:Epitopes / Q000032:analysis*; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000276:immunology; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans / Q000276:immunology*; D007632:Keratan Sulfate / Q000276:immunology*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000032:analysis*; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000032:analysis*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000939:Epitopes; D006023:Glycoproteins; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011134:Polysaccharides; C037199:poly-N-acetyllactosamine; D007632:Keratan Sulfate