Characteristic hexasaccharide sequences in octasaccharides derived from shark cartilage chondroitin sulfate D with a neurite outgrowth promoting activity
Characteristic hexasaccharide sequences in octasaccharides derived from shark cartilage chondroitin sulfate D with a neurite outgrowth promoting activity
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DOI:
10.1074/jbc.273.6.3296
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发表时间:
1998-02-06
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Sugahara, K
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作者:
Nadanaka, S;Clement, A;Sugahara, K
A mouse brain chondroitin sulfate (CS) proteoglycan, DSD-1-PG, bears the DSD-1 epitope and has neurite out-growth promoting properties. Shark cartilage CS-C inhibits the interactions between the DSD-1-specific monoclonal antibody 473HD and the CS chains of the DSD-1-PG, which is expressed on the mouse glial cells (Faissner, A., Clement, A., Lochter, A., Streit, A., Mandl, C., and Schachner, M. (1994) J. Cell Biol. 126, 783-799), On the other hand, several hexasaccharides isolated from commercial shark cartilage CS-D, which contains a higher proportion of characteristic D units (GlcUA(2-sulfate)beta 1-3GalNAc(6-sulfate)) as compared with CS-C, has the A-D tetrasaccharide sequence composed of an A disaccharide unit (GlcUA beta 1-3GalNAc(4-sulfate)) and a D disaccharide unit (Nadanaka, S. and Sugahara, K. (1997) Glycobiology 7, 253-263). In this study, the biological activities and the structure of shark cartilage CS-D were investigated. CS-D inhibited the interactions between monoclonal antibody 473HD and DSD-1-PG and also promoted neurite outgrowth of embryonic day 18 hippocampal neurons. Eight octasaccharide fractions were isolated from CS-D after partial digestion with bacterial chondroitinase ABC by means of gel filtration chromatography and anion-exchange high performance liquid chromotography to investigate the frequency and the arrangement of the A-D tetrasaccharide unit in the polymer sequence. Structural analysis performed by a combination of enzymatic digestions with 500-MHz H-1 NMR spectroscopy demonstrated that the isolated octasaccharides shared the common core structure Delta HexA alpha 1-3GalNAc beta 1-4(GlcUA beta 1-3GalNAc)(3) with four, five, and six sulfate esters at various hydroxyl groups in different combinations, In the structure, Delta HexA and GlcUA represent 4-deoxy-alpha-L-threo-hex-4-enepyranosyluronic acid and glucuronic acid, respectively. No D-D tetrasaccharide sequence was found, and discrete D disaccharide units were demonstrated exclusively as A-D tetrasaccharide units in either an A-D-A or an A-D-C hexasaccharide sequence in the five octasaccharides that represented about 5.0% (w/w) of the starting polysaccharides (C denotes the disaccharide GlcUA beta 1-3GalNAc(6-sulfate)). It remains to be determined whether such characteristic hexasaccharide sequences present in shark cartilage CS-D serve as functional domain structures recognized by some protein ligands.