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This review focuses on the chemical and chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycosaminoglycan oligosaccharides. Recent advances in functional group protection chemistry, conversion of D-gluco to L-ido or D-galacto configurations, glycosylation reactions and the preparation and use of novel starting materials in acidic oligosaccharide synthesis are discussed.Structure and processing of the mouse mammary tumor virus glycoprotein precursor The polyprotein precursor to the envelope glycoproteins of mouse mammary tumor virus was investigated by using subcellular fractionation procedures, pactomycin mapping techniques, tunicamycin inhibition of glycosylation, and endo-beta-N-acetyl glucosaminidase H-catalyzed removal of glycosylated residues in order to characterize the biosynthesis and processing of the precursor. The results suggest that the precursor (Pr73env) is synthesized on the rough endoplasmic reticulum as a transmembrane protein, with the carboxyl terminus remaining on the cytoplasmic side. The apoprotein as an estimated molecular weight of and acquires five core oligosaccharide units during synthesis. Cleavage of the precursor precedes the secondary glycosylation steps and therefore probably occurs before transport to the plasma membrane.

However, a minor population of Pr73env containing complex oligosaccharides was also found in the plasma membrane. The order of the glycoproteins in the precursor, as determined by pactomycin mapping, in NH2-gp52-gp36-COOH.Primary structure of horse erythrocyte glycophorin HA. Its amino acid sequence has a unique homology with those of human and porcine erythrocyte glycophorins.The complete amino acid sequence of the major sialoglycoproteins of horse erythrocyte membranes, glycophorin HA, was determined by manual sequencing methods, using tryptic, chymotryptic, and cyanogen bromide fragments. Glycophorin HA is a polypeptide chain of 1 amino acid residues and contains oligosaccharide units attached to the amino-terminal side of the molecule. Its amino terminus is pyroglutamic acid.

All of the oligosaccharides are linked O-glycosidically to threonine or serine residues. The amino acid sequence is consistent with the transmembrane orientation of glycophorins. There is no significant homology between the glycosylated domains of horse, human, and porcine glycophorins, but there is a considerable homology between the hydrophobic domains of the three glycophorins, which interact with the lipid Simple and fast method for recognition of reducing and nonreducing neutral carbohydrates by matrix-assisted laser desorptionionization time-of-flight mass Negative-ion mode matrix-assisted laser desorptionionization (MALDI) time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF-MS) was used for the characterization of storage, neutral oligosaccharides extracted from Jerusalem artichoke, red onion, and wheat. The oligosaccharides from the real samples were analyzed with 2,4,6-trihydroxyacetophenone as the most convenient matrix that was selected in advance with the standard carbohydrate samples (inulin and maltooligosaccharides). The oligosaccharides from Jerusalem artichoke and red onion (similarly as inulin) produced [M - H](-) peaks as the main distribution, which reflects their nonreducing composition. On the contrary, the cross-ring fragmentations [M - H - 1](-) formed the main distribution in the mass spectra of hydrolyzed wheat starch similarly to reducing maltooligosaccharides and dextrans. The negative-ion mode MALDI-TOF MS is capable of recognizing reducing and nonreducing oligosaccharides.

Such a simple differentiation of malto or inulin type of oligosaccharides is not possible in the positive-ion mode.A rapid microassay of lysozyme activity with reduced chitin oligosaccharides as Accumulation of malto-oligosaccharides in the syncytiotrophoblastic cells of A cell-surface microvillar fraction that was isolated from the syncytiotrophoblastic cells of first-trimester human placentas was found to contain very high concentrations (8 +- 32 microgram of hexosemg of protein) of a class of low-molecular-weight oligosaccharides that were comprised entirely of glucose. T.l.c. and gel filtration showed that the saccharides contained from one to six glucose residues. The structures of the most prominent members of the series, a tetra- and a tri-saccharide, were determined.

2'-FL of the glucose residues was alpha, and methylation linkage analysis gave terminal and 4-linked hexose residues. These malto-oligosaccharides contained one reducing terminus per molecule, indicating that they were free and not bound to other structural elements of the cells.
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