title: Evidence for the occurrence of nucleotide-activated oligosaccharides in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: Recently, nucleotide-activated oligosaccharides have been found to be involved in the biosynthesis of certain glycoconjugates in archaeal and bacterial procaryotes. This paper describes the isolation and partial chemical characterization of nucleotide-activated oligosaccharides from the eucaryotic microbe Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We purified four different nucleotide-activated oligosaccharides from cell extracts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Three of the oligosaccharides were UDP, and one was TDP-activated. D-Glucose was the only carbohydrate constituent, except for one oligosaccharide, which also contained glucosamine. The chain length varied between two and four sugar residues.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Angewandte Mikrobiologie und Mykologie, Universität Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sprenger
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: König
mesh_terms: D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009711:Nucleotides; D009844:Oligosaccharides