Diversity of O-linked glycosylation patterns between species. Characterization of 25 carbohydrate chains from oviducal mucins of Rana ridibunda.
Amphibia egg jelly coats are formed by components secreted along the oviduct. These secretion products overlay the oocytes as they pass along the different oviducal portions. Mucin type glycoproteins are the major constituents of the egg jelly coats. In this study, the O-linked carbohydrate chains of the jelly coats surrounding the eggs of Rana ridibunda were released by alkaline borohydride treatment. Fractionation of the mixture of O-linked oligosaccharide-alditols was achieved by a combination of chromatographic techniques including gel-permeation chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography using an amino-bonded silica column. The primary structures of these O-glycans were determined by one-dimensional and two-dimensional 1H-NMR spectroscopy and matrix-assisted laser-desorption-ionization-time-of flight mass spectrometry. 25 oligosaccharide structures, possessing a core consisting of Gal(beta1-3)GalNAc-ol with or without branching through a GlcNAc residue linked (beta1-6) to the GalNAc residue (core type 2 or core type 1, respectively) are described. The most representative antennae are: HSO3(6)[Fuc(alpha1-3)]GlcNAc; Gal(beta1-2)Gal; Gal(beta1-2)Gal(alpha1-3)[Fuc(alpha1-2)]Gal; GlcA(beta1-3)-Gal(beta1-3)[Fuc(alpha1-2)]Gal; GalNAc(alpha1-4)Gal(beta1-4)Gal; Gal(beta1-3)GalNAc(alpha1-4)Gal(beta1-4)Gal and GlcA(beta1-3)Gal(beta1-3)GalNAc. These results confirm the species-specific O-glycosylation of Amphibia oviducal mucins. The significance of this observation should be linked to a symbiotic role of carbohydrates involved in host-parasite interactions.
Mourad
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Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Unité Mixte de Recherche du Centre National de Recherche Scientifique no 8576, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Flandres Artois, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
Morelle
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Neveu
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Strecker
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D000818:Animals; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000662:veterinary; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D005260:Female; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000662:veterinary; D006031:Glycosylation; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009077:Mucins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D010057:Oviducts / Q000378:metabolism*; D011895:Rana ridibunda / Q000378:metabolism*; D013045:Species Specificity; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000662:veterinary; D013402:Sugar Alcohols / Q000378:metabolism
D009077:Mucins; D013402:Sugar Alcohols