scholarly journals Low-Neurovirulence Theiler's Viruses Use Sialic Acid Moieties on N-linked Oligosaccharide Structures for Attachment

Virology ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 304 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur H. Shah ◽  
Howard L. Lipton
2020 ◽  
Vol 295 (10) ◽  
pp. 3173-3188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Eckmair ◽  
Chunsheng Jin ◽  
Niclas G. Karlsson ◽  
Daniel Abed-Navandi ◽  
Iain B. H. Wilson ◽  
...  

Echinoderms are among the most primitive deuterostomes and have been used as model organisms to understand chordate biology because of their close evolutionary relationship to this phylogenetic group. However, there are almost no data available regarding the N-glycomic capacity of echinoderms, which are otherwise known to produce a diverse set of species-specific glycoconjugates, including ones heavily modified by fucose, sulfate, and sialic acid residues. To increase the knowledge of diversity of carbohydrate structures within this phylum, here we conducted an in-depth analysis of N-glycans from a brittle star (Ophiactis savignyi) as an example member of the class Ophiuroidea. To this end, we performed a multi-step N-glycan analysis by HPLC and various exoglyosidase and chemical treatments in combination with MALDI-TOF MS and MS/MS. Using this approach, we found a wealth of hybrid and complex oligosaccharide structures reminiscent of those in higher vertebrates as well as some classical invertebrate glycan structures. 70% of these N-glycans were anionic, carrying either sialic acid, sulfate, or phosphate residues. In terms of glycophylogeny, our data position the brittle star between invertebrates and vertebrates and confirm the high diversity of N-glycosylation in lower organisms.


1969 ◽  
Vol 111 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. T. De B. Andrews ◽  
G. M. Herring ◽  
P. W. Kent

1. Bovine bone sialoprotein (mol.wt. 23000) contains N-acetylneuraminic acid and N-glycollylneuraminic acid, fucose, galactose, mannose, N-acetylgalactosamine and N-acetylglucosamine residues in the form of a very small number, perhaps one, of highly branched oligosaccharide structures linked covalently to peptide. 2. Periodate oxidation of the sialoprotein results in quantitative destruction only of the sialic acid and fucose residue consistent with the earlier findings of their positions as terminal groups. 3. Terminal sialic acid residues are attached to galactopyranose residues by 2,3-linkages, and to some N-acetylgalactosamine residues (at C-6). 4. Sequential Smith degradation indicates that N-acetylgalactosamine residues may be present as points of branching (linked in C-1, C-3 and C-6) and N-acetylglucosamine residues are located in the inner part of the structure, adjacent to the carbohydrate–peptide bond(s). 5. Mannose residues appear to be linked in the 1,3-positions.


2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 122-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslawa Ferens-Sieczkowska ◽  
Mariusz Olczak

Abstract Haptoglobin is one of acute phase glycoproteins often used as markers in glycopathology studies. In this work the oligosaccharide structures of haptoglobin from 'healthy' subjects have been studied in detail, taking into consideration the possible dependence of glycosylation on the phenotype. About 75% of charged haptoglobin glycans were of biantennary complex structure, and some of them lacked one terminal sialic acid molecule. Triantennary structures made up almost 25% of the charged glycans pool, and highly branched tetrasialy-lated oligosaccharides did not exceed 1%. The main difference between haptoglobin derived from the sample of pooled 44 sera and from the 2 -2 phenotype individual concerned the relative content of trisialylated oligosaccharide with one 2 -3 linked sialic acid residue. The oligosaccharide profile of haptoglobin derived from serum of a patient suffering from con­ genital disorder of glycosylation was compared to 'healthy' controls. It was shown, that four main glycans are identical in patient and 'normal' haptoglobins. Some alterations were found in the relative content of mono-, bi-, and trisialylated glycans as well as in the appearance of some tracely abundant oligosaccharides in haptoglobin of the patient with congenital dis­ order of glycosylation.


2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
C. Lowell Parsons ◽  
Mahadevan Rajasekaran ◽  
Marianne Chenoweth ◽  
Paul Stein

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
S OLOFSSON ◽  
U KUMLIN ◽  
K DIMOCK ◽  
N ARNBERG

1988 ◽  
Vol 60 (02) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Hotchkiss ◽  
C J Refino ◽  
C K Leonard ◽  
J V O'Connor ◽  
C Crowley ◽  
...  

SummaryModification of the carbohydrate structures of recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) can increase or decrease its rate of clearance in rabbits. When rt-PA was treated with sodium periodate to oxidize carbohydrate residues, the rate of clearance was decreased from 9.6 ± 1.9 ml min−1 kg−1 to 3.5 ± 0.6 ml min−1 kg−1 (mean ± SD, n = 5). A similar change in the clearance of rt-PA was introduced by the use of endo-β-N-acetyl- glucosaminidase H (Endo-H), which selectively removes high mannose asparagine-linked oligosaccharides; the clearance of Endo-H-treated rt-PA was 5.0 ± 0.5 ml min−1 kg−1. A mutant of rt-PA was produced with an amino acid substitution at position 117 (Asn replaced with Gin) to remove a potential glycosylation site that normally contains a high mannose structure. The clearance of this material was also decreased, similar to the periodate and Endo-H-treated rt-PA. Conversely, when rt-PA was produced in the CHO 15B cell line, which can produce only high mannose oligosaccharide structures on glycoproteins, the clearance was increased by a factor of 1.8. These results demonstrate that the removal of rt-PA from the blood depends significantly upon the nature of its oligosaccharide structures.


1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (04) ◽  
pp. 676-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
H F Kotzé ◽  
V van Wyk ◽  
P N Badenhorst ◽  
A du P Heyns ◽  
J P Roodt ◽  
...  

SummaryPlatelets were isolated from blood of baboons and treated with neuraminidase to remove platelet membrane sialic acid, a process which artificially ages the platelets. The platelets were then labelled with 111In and their mean life span, in vivo distribution and sites of Sequestration were measured. The effect of removal of sialic acid on the attachment of immunoglobulin to platelets were investigated and related to the Sequestration of the platelets by the spleen, liver, and bone marrow. Removal of sialic acid by neuraminidase did not affect the aggregation of platelets by agonists in vitro, nor their sites of Sequestration. The removal of 0.51 (median, range 0.01 to 2.10) nmol sialic acid/108 platelets shortened their life span by 75 h (median, range 0 to 132) h (n = 19, p <0.001), and there was an exponential correlation between the shortening of the mean platelet life span and the amount of sialic acid removed. The increase in platelet-associated IgG was 0.112 (median, range 0.007 to 0.309) fg/platelet (n = 25, p <0.001) after 0.79 (median, range 0.00 to 6.70) nmol sialic acid/108 platelets was removed (p <0.001). There was an exponential correlation between the shortening of mean platelet life span after the removal of sialic acid and the increase in platelet-associated IgG. The results suggest that platelet membrane sialic acid influences ageing of circulating platelets, and that the loss of sialic acid may have exposed a senescent cell antigen that binds IgG on the platelet membrane. The antibody-antigen complex may then provide a signal to the macrophages that the platelet is old, and can be phagocytosed and destroyed.


1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 019-021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cemal Kuyas ◽  
André Haeberli ◽  
P Werner Straub

SummaryHuman fibrinogen was compared with asialofibrinogen by two-dimensional electrophoresis to evaluate the contribution of sialic acid to the heterogeneity of the γ- and Bβ-polypeptide chains.Reduced fibrinogen showed three major variants for both the γ- and Bβ-chains. In addition two minor γ-bands with a more acidic isoelectric point than the normal γ-chains were observed. Electrophoresis in the second dimension (SDS) suggests that these most acidic bands are γ-chain-variants with a higher molecular weight. In asialofibrinogen only two predominant variants with more alkaline isoelectric points were present in each chain type.It is concluded that enzymatic removal of sialic acid partially reduces the heterogeneity of the γ- and Bβ-polypeptide chains of human fibrinogen, but additional sources producing charge heterogeneity must be sought.


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