title: A glycopeptide containing 15 amino acid residues derived from hepatitis B surface antigen particles: demonstration of immunogenicity to raise anti-HBs in mice.
abstract: The major polypeptides composing hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) particles are P-I and P-II. P-II shares the same amino acid sequence as P-I and contains an additional carbohydrate moiety of mol. wt approximately 5000. When a purified preparation of P-II was digested with Nagarse and then with Pronase P, it gave rise to a glycopeptide containing 15 amino acid residues and the carbohydrate moiety of P-II. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the glycopeptide was determined to be Lys-Pro-Thr-Asp-Gly-Asn-. The polysaccharide moiety contained 5 moles of N-acetylglucosamine and was connected with Asn at the sixth position from the N-terminus. When mice were immunized against this HBsAg glycopeptide, they raised humoral antibodies which bound to each of three preparations of P-I derived from HGsAg particles of subtypes adw, adr and ayw, thereby indicating that the sequence of 15 amino acids in the glycopeptide would constitute a common antigenic structure of HBsAg.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000606:Amino Sugars / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D005260:Female; D006020:Glycopeptides / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis; D011485:Protein Binding
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D000606:Amino Sugars; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D006020:Glycopeptides; D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens; D010446:Peptide Fragments