title: Host-cell-specific glycosylation of HIV-2 envelope glycoprotein.
abstract: Neutral complex-type N-glycans of the envelope glycoprotein 120 of HIV-2, propagated in different host cells, display cell-type specific variations. In order to identify typical structural elements, glycans were analysed by gel filtration, by enzymic sequencing and, in part, by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The characteristic substituents of di- tri- and tetraantennary carbohydrate units thus observed include N-acetyllactosamine repeats, bisecting N-acetylglucosamine and fucose linked to the chitobiose core as well as to N-acetyllactosamine antennae. Each glycoprotein preparation displayed a characteristic set of glycoforms.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, University of Giessen, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liedtke
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Geyer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Geyer
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D006031:Glycosylation; D015699:HIV Envelope Protein gp120 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D015498:HIV-2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
chemical_list: D015699:HIV Envelope Protein gp120; D011134:Polysaccharides