title: Unique disialosyl gangliosides from salmon kidney: characterization of V3alphaFuc, IV3betaGalNAc, II3(alphaNeuAc)2-Gg4Cer and its analogue with 4-O-acetyl-N-acetylneuraminic acid.
abstract: Four unidentified acidic glycolipids (X3-X6) were isolated from the kidney of the Pacific salmon on an anion exchange column and by high performance liquid chromatography using a silica bead (Iatrobeads) column. Based on methylation analysis, chemical and enzymatic degradation, proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, the glycon structure of X5 and X6 was identified as a unique disialosyl fucosyl-N-acetylgalactosaminyl ganglio-N-tetraose:Fucalpha3GalNAcbeta3Galbeta3GalNAcbeta4[NeuAcalpha8NeuAcalpha3] Galbeta4Glcbeta1Cer. NMR showed that X3 and X4 were analogues of X5 and X6 and contained O-acetyl groups on C4 of the outer N-acetylneuraminic acid, first disialosyl gangliosides containing 4-O-acetyl-N-acetylneuraminic acid. The ceramides of X3 and X5 contained predominantly C24: 1, and X4 and X6 contained saturated fatty acids (C14: 0, C16: 0 and C18: 0), whereas the long chain base was exclusively sphingenine. The concentrations of X3 and X4 were 0.13 and 0.16 nmol/g of kidney respectively and those of X5 and X6, were 0.07 nmol/g each.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Biomedical Analysis and Radioisotope, Teikyo, Tokyo, Japan. yniimura@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Niimura
authors.forename: Ineo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ishizuka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D005732:Gangliosides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D007668:Kidney / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D017685:Oncorhynchus keta / Q000378:metabolism*; D018629:Spectrometry, Mass, Secondary Ion
chemical_list: D005732:Gangliosides; C025447:sialogangliosides