title: Isolation and characterization of a unique sulfated ganglioside, sulfated GM1a, from rat kidney.
abstract: A novel class of sulfoglycosphingolipid, a sulfate analog of ganglioside, was isolated from mammals for the first time. This sulfated ganglioside was purified from rat kidney by column chromatographies on anion exchangers and silica beads. One-dimensional 1H NMR, compositional and permethylation analyses showed that this glycolipid has a Gg4Cer core with 1 mol each of sulfate ester and N- glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc) at C-3 of galactose. The major ceramide consisted of nonhydroxy fatty acids (24:0 and 22:0) and 4-hydroxysphinganine (t18:0), deduced from the compositional analysis and negative liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry (LSIMS). Mild acid hydrolysis and solvolysis produced compounds which correspond to Gg4Cer IV3-sulfate (SM1b) and II3NeuGcalpha-Gg4Cer (GM1a (NeuGc)), respectively. The abundant ions characteristic for sulfated mono- and disaccharides in high-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) spectra were consistent with the structure at the non-reducing terminus, HSO3 -O- Hex -O- HexNAc- rather than the alternative structure, NeuGc -O- Hex -O- HexNAc-. The two-dimensional 1H NMR further evidenced the presence of a 3 -O- sulfated galactose in the molecule. From these results the complete structure was proposed to be HSO3-3Galbeta-3GalNAcbeta-4(NeuGcalpha-3)Galb eta-4Glcbeta-1Cer (II3NeuGcalpha-Gg4Cer IV3-sulfate).
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Kaga 2-11-1, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tadano-Aritomi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ireland
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hikita
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ishizuka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D005677:G(M1) Ganglioside / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007668:Kidney / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013431:Sulfates / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D013431:Sulfates; D005677:G(M1) Ganglioside