Incompatible blood-group a determinants in tumoral mucins. Isolation of oligosaccharides having a 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-α-d-galactopyranosyl group at the non-reducing end
✍ Scribed by Annick Paul; Brigitte Hermelin; Martine Mergey; Jacques Picard
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 771 KB
- Volume
- 110
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-6215
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✦ Synopsis
Two glycopeptide fractions were obtained from pseudomyxomatous mucins secreted by an ovarian cystadenocarcinoma from a female having blood-group B, and by an appendix tumor from a male having blood-group O. The carbohydrate and amino acid content of these fractions suggests the presence of numerous carbohydrate side-chains linked through O-glycosyl bonds to a peptide core rich in threonine and proline. The two glycopeptide fractions exhibit compatible B- and H-blood-group activities. They are reactive towards Dolichos biflorus lectin and human anti-A agglutinins, and so exhibit an incompatible A activity. Alkali-borohydride degradation of Pronase-digested glycopeptides gave dialyzable oligosaccharides that were purified and shown to possess 2-acetamido-2-deoxygalactitol at the terminal reducing-end. 2-Acetamido-2-deoxyglucose, galactose, fucose, and neuraminic acid were absent, or present, in variable proportions. Four oligosaccharides containing 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactose residues were reactive towards Dolichos biflorus lectin and human anti-A agglutinins, indicating the presence, at the nonreducing end, of a 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranosyl group, responsible for blood-group A activity.
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