title: Carbohydrate moieties of porcine 32 kDa enamelin.
abstract: The structures of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of porcine 32 kDa enamelin are reported. The oligosaccharides were released by N-oligosaccharide glycopeptidase digestion, and the reducing ends of the oligosaccharides were derivatized with a fluorescent reagent, 2-aminopyridine. The pyridylamino oligosaccharides were separated into eight kinds of oligosaccharides. The structures of these oligosaccharides were determined by a combination of a sequential exoglycosidase digestion and a two-dimensional sugar mapping technique. The oligosaccharides consisted of fucose, galactose, mannose, N-acetylglucosamine, and N-acetylneuraminic acid, and were classified into two groups according to their core-sugar chain structures; one was a biantennary-type and the other was a triantennary-type oligosaccharide. The variation of the oligosaccharides in each of these groups was caused by the differences in the number, the site, and the mode of linkage of N-acetylneuraminic acid to the core-sugar chains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamakoshi
mesh_terms: D000581:Amidohydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000631:Aminopyridines / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000032:analysis*; D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000032:analysis; D043524:Peptide-N4-(N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminyl) Asparagine Amidase; D012794:Sialic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D000631:Aminopyridines; D002241:Carbohydrates; D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D012794:Sialic Acids; C038456:tuftelin; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D000581:Amidohydrolases; D043524:Peptide-N4-(N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminyl) Asparagine Amidase; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid