title: Structural characterization of the N-linked carbohydrate chains of the zona pellucida glycoproteins from bovine ovarian and fertilized eggs.
abstract: The N-linked oligosaccharides that were released by hydrazinolysis from glycoproteins of zonae pellucidae of bovine ovarian eggs, were composed of neutral (23%) and acidic (77%) carbohydrate chains; almost all the acidic chains were neutralized by sialidase digestion. Sugar mapping analysis of pyridylaminated N-linked chains by reverse-phase and normal-phase HPLC and 500-MHz 1H-NMR spectroscopy revealed that the major neutral chain is a high-mannose-type oligosaccharide and the acidic chains are di-, tri-, and tetra-antennary, fucosylated complex-type chains that have N-acetyllactosamine repeats in the non-reducing regions. The structures of the neutral chain and the core regions of the acidic chains of N-linked oligosaccharides from the zona proteins of fertilized eggs, which were obtained by the in vitro fertilization method, were essentially the same as those of the ovarian egg zonae. The amount, however, of the acidic chains decreased to 32 mol/100 mol in the fertilized egg zonae, which suggests that a sialidase released from the oocyte during fertilization operates on the zona glycoproteins.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katsumata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yonezawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanokura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakano
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D004527:Egg Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009005:Monosaccharides / Q000032:analysis; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009865:Oocytes / Q000737:chemistry*; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D015044:Zona Pellucida / Q000737:chemistry*; D000072216:Zona Pellucida Glycoproteins; D015053:Zygote / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004527:Egg Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D009005:Monosaccharides; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D000072216:Zona Pellucida Glycoproteins; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases