title: The carbohydrate moiety of human platelet glycocalicin: the structures of the major Asn-linked sugar chains.
abstract: Glycocalicin, a predominant glycoprotein on the human platelet surface, has been purified from a platelet suspension by means of sonication, ammonium sulfate precipitation and acid treatment followed by chromatography on columns of wheat germ agglutinin-Sepharose and Mono Q. Asparagine-linked (N-linked) oligosaccharides were released by hydrazinolysis, and then N-acetylated and reduced with NaBH4 or NaB3H4. The released carbohydrate chains were found to be of the complex-type from their interaction with immobilized lectin columns. The structures of the two major oligosaccharide-alditols separated by ion-exchange chromatography on a Mono Q column were investigated by means of methylation analysis, glycosidase digestion, and Smith periodate degradation, and they were assigned as typical di- and trisialylated complex-type oligosaccharide-alditols with two and three peripheral chains consisting of Gal-GlcNAc sequences, respectively.
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D001216:Asparagine / Q000032:analysis; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000032:analysis*; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000032:analysis*; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006801:Humans; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000032:analysis; D010974:Platelet Aggregation; D019038:Platelet Glycoprotein GPIb-IX Complex; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000097:blood* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011489:Protein Denaturation
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D002241:Carbohydrates; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D019038:Platelet Glycoprotein GPIb-IX Complex; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins; C023592:glycocalicin; D001216:Asparagine