title: The sulphated carbohydrate-protein linkage region isolated from chondroitin 4-sulphate chains of inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor in human plasma.
abstract: Inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor (ITI) in human plasma has a unique structural architecture composed of three polypeptide chains (H1, H2 and L chains), which are linked to each other through a chondroitin 4-sulphate chain. The structure of the carbohydrate-protein linkage region of the chondroitin 4-sulphate chain attached to the L chain was investigated. The peptide-chondroitin sulphate fraction was isolated by anion-exchange chromatography after exhaustive digestion with lysyl endopeptidase and then V8 protease. The chondroitin 4-sulphate chain was released from the peptides by beta-elimination using NaB3H4 and then digested with chondroitinase ABC. These treatments resulted in a single 3H-labelled hexasaccharide alditol fraction derived from the linkage region which had been associated with the L chain. Chemical and enzymatic analyses as well as fast-atom bombardment-mass spectrometry (FAB-MS) analysis revealed that the 3H-labelled hexasaccharide alditol had the following structure: delta HexA-alpha 1-3GalNAc(4-sulphate)beta 1-4GlcA beta 1-3Gal(4-sulphate)beta 1-3Gal beta 1-4Xyl-ol (where delta HexA is 4-deoxy-alpha-L-threo-hex-4-enepyranosyluronic acid and Xyl-ol is xylitol). The structure contained the novel 4-sulphated Gal residue, which was previously demonstrated in a linkage hexasaccharide isolated from chondroitin 4-sulphate of rat chondrosarcoma (Sugahara et al., J. Biol. Chem., 263, 10168-10174, 1988) and of whale cartilage (Sugahara et al., Eur. J. Biochem., 202, 805-811, 1991). The above disulphated hexasaccharide alditol was the only component detected in the linkage region fraction of the chondroitin 4-sulphate chain of ITI, which implies some biological significance of this novel structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kinugasa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nagasawa
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Khoo
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dell
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugahara
mesh_terms: D000510:Alpha-Globulins / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002809:Chondroitin Sulfates / Q000737:chemistry*; D006020:Glycopeptides / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016339:Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment; D014361:Trypsin Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000510:Alpha-Globulins; D002241:Carbohydrates; D006020:Glycopeptides; D011506:Proteins; D014361:Trypsin Inhibitors; C011877:inter-alpha-inhibitor; D002809:Chondroitin Sulfates