scholarly journals Fucose and Sialic Acid Expressions in Human Seminal Fibronectin andα1-Acid Glycoprotein Associated with Leukocytospermia of Infertile Men

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa M. Kratz ◽  
Ricardo Faundez ◽  
Iwona Kątnik-Prastowska
Keyword(s):  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Sialic Acid Residue ◽  
Relative Reactivity ◽  
Ulex Europaeus ◽  
Acid Glycoprotein ◽  
Maackia Amurensis ◽  
Sialyl Lewis ◽  
Infertile Men ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Aleuria Aurantia

Introduction: The aim of this study was to compare fucose and sialic acid residue expression on fibronectin andα1-acid glycoprotein in the seminal plasma of men suspected of infertility and suffering from leukocytospermia.Subjects and methods: Seminal ejaculates were collected from 27 leukocytospermic and 18 healthy, normozoospermic men. The relative degree of fucosylation and sialylation of fibronectin andα1-acid glycoprotein was estimated by ELISA using fucose and sialic acid specific lectins fromAleuria aurantia, Lotus tetragonolobus, andUlex europaeusas well asMaackia amurensisandSambucus nigra, respectively.Results: Leukocytospermic seminal fibronectin, in comparison with fibronectin of normal fertile group, showed lower relative reactivity with AAL, LTA and UEA, and higher reactivity with MAA and SNA, while the AGP of the leukocytospermic group was less reactive with AAL, and the relative reactivity with LTA and MAA was significantly higher. Fibronectin andα1-acid glycoprotein reactivity with UEA and MAA showed high positive correlations.Discussion: Leukocytospermia was associated with the alterations of terminal monosaccharide expression in human seminal fibronectin andα1-acid glycoprotein. The increase of sialyl-Lewisxantigen inα1-acid glycoprotein can be used as a marker of genital tract inflammation manifested by leukocytospermia.

The content of immunomodulatory glycoepitopes in seminal plasma glycoproteins of fertile and infertile men

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 579
Author(s):  
Anna Kałuża ◽  
Mirosława Ferens-Sieczkowska ◽  
Beata Olejnik ◽  
Justyna Kołodziejczyk ◽  
Mariusz Zimmer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Seminal Plasma ◽  
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Sodium Dodecyl ◽  
Specific Antigen ◽  
Mass Spectrometry Analysis ◽  
Spectrometry Analysis ◽  
Ulex Europaeus ◽  
Maackia Amurensis ◽  
Sambucus Nigra Agglutinin

According to a concept of fetoembryonic defence, protein–carbohydrate interaction may be involved in the regulation of maternal immunity that prevents rejection of allograft spermatozoa, embryo and fetus. In the present study we focussed on the evaluation of the expression of glycoepitopes that may be of crucial importance in this process: LewisY (LeY) and LewisX (LeX) as well as terminal sialylation. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with sodium dodecyl sulphate was used to separate seminal plasma samples of fertile (n=10) and infertile (n=103) men; these were then probed with lectins specific to fucose (Lotus tetragonolobus agglutinin and Ulex europaeus agglutinin) and sialic acid (Sambucus nigra agglutinin and Maackia amurensis agglutinin). Differential expression of α2,3-bound sialic acid was found in six out of seven analysed bands, whereas differences in the other analysed glycoepitopes were found in fewer numbers of bands. Mass spectrometry analysis focussed on the identification of proteins carrying glycans with immunomodulatory epitopes, including fibronectin, lactoferrin, clusterin, zinc-α2-glycoprotein, prostate acid phosphatase and prostate-specific antigen; these should be submitted to further detailed analysis.

scholarly journals Enhancement of elastin expression by transdermal administration of sialidase isozyme Neu2

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Minami ◽  
Yuka Fujita ◽  
Jun Goto ◽  
Ayano Iuchi ◽  
Kosei Fujita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Lower Layer ◽  
Elastic Fiber ◽  
Sialic Acid Residue ◽  
Elastic Fibers ◽  
Transdermal Administration ◽  
Sialidase Activity ◽  
Fiber Assembly ◽  
Senescence Accelerated Mice

AbstractReduction of elastin in the skin causes various skin diseases as well as wrinkles and sagging with aging. Sialidase is a hydrolase that cleaves a sialic acid residue from sialoglycoconjugate. Cleavage of sialic acid from microfibrils by the sialidase isozyme Neu1 facilitates elastic fiber assembly. In the present study, we showed that a lower layer of the dermis and muscle showed relatively intense sialidase activity. The sialidase activity in the skin decreased with aging. Choline and geranate (CAGE), one of the ionic liquids, can deliver the sialidase subcutaneously while maintaining the enzymatic activity. The elastin level in the dermis was increased by applying sialidase from Arthrobacter ureafaciens (AUSA) with CAGE on the skin for 5 days in rats and senescence-accelerated mice prone 1 and 8. Sialidase activity in the dermis was considered to be mainly due to Neu2 based on the expression level of sialidase isozyme mRNA. Transdermal administration of Neu2 with CAGE also increased the level of elastin in the dermis. Therefore, not only Neu1 but also Neu2 would be involved in elastic fiber assembly. Transdermal administration of sialidase is expected to be useful for improvement of wrinkles and skin disorders due to the loss of elastic fibers.

Porcine Sugar Nucleotide: Glycoprotein Glycosyltransferases. I. Blood Serum and Liver Sialyltransferase

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 829-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger L. Hudgin ◽  
Harry Schachter
Keyword(s):  
Sialic Acid ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Liver Homogenate ◽  
Acetone Powder ◽  
Acid Glycoprotein ◽  
Acetylneuraminic Acid ◽  
Pork Liver ◽  
Terminal Galactose ◽  
And Function ◽  
Powder Extract

The properties of CMP-N acetylneuraminic acid: glycoprotein sialyltransferase have been studied in pork serum, a crude pork liver homogenate, and a soluble acetone powder extract prepared from pork liver. Whereas the crude liver homogenate enzyme is activated by the detergent Triton X-100, this detergent has no effect on the activities of either serum or acetone powder extract; since high-speed centrifugation does not sediment the enzyme activities of the latter two preparations, it is concluded that they are soluble. Comparison of the membrane-bound and soluble liver enzymes indicates that the membrane modifies kinetic behavior only to a limited extent. In both liver and serum, a single sialyltransferase is responsible for incorporation of sialic acid into α1-acid glycoprotein, fetuin, and N-acetyllactosamine, and sialic acid incorporation occurs whenever a terminal galactose linked (β, 1 → 4) to a penultimate N-acetylglucosamine is presented to the enzyme. Although the serum enzyme resembles the liver enzyme, both the source and function of serum sialyltransferase are unknown.

scholarly journals The investigation of the changes in the surface glycoconjugates using two different spheroid models of breast cancer cells and availability assessment of these spheroid models for rapid diagnosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-271
Author(s):  
Yosun MATER ◽  
Günnur DEMİRCAN
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cell Culture ◽  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Cancer Cell ◽  
Breast Cancer Cell ◽  
Wheat Germ Agglutinin ◽  
Wheat Germ ◽  
Sialic Acids ◽  
Maackia Amurensis ◽  
Maackia Amurensis Lectin

The importance of early cancer diagnosis has led to development of many different diagnostic methods. In this context, the studies investigating the presence and amount of sugar residues to use as indicators in the identification of cancer cell type have become prominent. In the present study, sialic acids found on the membrane surfaces of ER (+) MCF-7 and ER (-) MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell lines were labeled using three-dimensional (3D) cell culture (Spheroid) model as the closest method to the patient sample, thus its natural environment, among the cell culture methods. These sugar units that play a role in regulation of important immune characteristics such as recognition, binding and metastasis were made visualizable by applying fluorescent-labeled lectins such as FITC-(Wheat Germ Agglutinin) specifically binding to sialic acid units (GlcNAc, Neu5Ac) including particularly ß-GlcNAc and FITC-(Maackia Amurensis-Lectin-1) specifically binding to Galß4GlcNAc type sialic acids. These glycan units were specifically labeled with FITC-(Maackia Amurensis-Lectin-1) and FITC- (Wheat Germ Agglutinin) and radiation intensities were analyzed relatively. The two different breast cancer cell cultures were compared with respect to change in the amounts of sialic acid residues containing α-2,3- and α-2,6 bonds using fluorescent-labeled lectins. In the present study, we have performed a precise, accurate and rapid determination of the sugar content in the different breast cancer cell surface lines by means of fluorescent-labeled lectins and carried out a relative comparison between the micrographs.

scholarly journals MALDI TIMS IMS of Disialoganglioside Isomers – GD1a and GD1b in Murine Brain Tissue

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Djambazova ◽  
Martin Dufresne ◽  
Lukasz Migas ◽  
Angela Kruse ◽  
Raf Van de Plas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Phase Separation ◽  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Sialic Acid Residue ◽  
Spinal Cord Tissue ◽  
Total Ganglioside ◽  
Tissue Sections ◽  
Maldi Ims ◽  
Gas Phase Separation

Gangliosides are classified as acidic glycosphingolipids, containing ceramide moieties and oligosaccharide chains with one or multiple sialic acid residue(s). The presence of multiple sialylation sites gives rise to highly diverse isomeric structures with distinct biological roles. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI IMS) enables the untargeted spatial analysis of gangliosides, among other biomolecules, directly from tissue sections. Integrating trapped ion mobility mass spectrometry (TIMS), a gas-phase separation technology, with MALDI IMS allows for the investi-gation of isomeric lipid structures in situ. Here we demonstrate the gas-phase separation of disialoganglioside isomers GD1a and GD1b that differ in the position of a sialic acid residue, in a standard mixture of both isomers, a total ganglioside extract, and directly from thin tissue sections. The unique spatial distributions of GD1a/b (d36:1) and GD1a/b (d38:1) were deter-mined from rat hippocampus, as well as in a spinal cord tissue section.

Effects of Sialic Acid Substitutions on Recognition by Sambucus nigra Agglutinin and Maackia amurensis Hemagglutinin

2002 ◽  
Vol 303 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Els C.M. Brinkman-Van der Linden ◽  
Justin L. Sonnenburg ◽  
Ajit Varki
Keyword(s):  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Sambucus Nigra ◽  
Maackia Amurensis ◽  
Sambucus Nigra Agglutinin

Studies on the site of addition of sialic acid and glucosamine to rat α1-acid glycoprotein

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Golgi Complex ◽  
Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Main Site ◽  
Acid Glycoprotein ◽  
Membrane Bound ◽  
Polypeptide Chains

Ultrasonic extracts of rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum fractions and Golgi fractions from rat liver were examined by immunoelectrophoresis using antiserum to α1-acid glycoprotein. Rough endoplasmic reticulum fractions contained only sialic acid free α1-acid glycoprotein, whereas smooth endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi fractions also contained sialic acid containing α1-acid glycoprotein. Determination of the sialic acid contents of immune precipitates isolated from the extracts suggested that the Golgi complex was the main site of addition of sialic acid to α1-acid glycoprotein. Immunological studies on puromycin extracts of polyribosomes showed that polypeptide chains of α1-acid glycoprotein and albumin were assembled mainly on membrane-bound polyribosomes. Evidence is presented from incorporation studies with labelled leucine and glucosamine that initial glycosylation of α1-acid glycoprotein occurs mainly or entirely after release of nascent polypeptide from the ribosomal site.

Synthetic Studies on Sialoglycoconjugates 85: Synthesis of Sialyl Lewis X Ganglioside Analogs Containing a Variety of Anionic Substituents in Place of Sialic Acid

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Yoshida ◽  
Yukiko Kawakami ◽  
Hideharu Ishida ◽  
Makoto Kiso ◽  
Akira Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Sialyl Lewis X ◽  
Lewis X ◽  
Sialyl Lewis ◽  
Synthetic Studies

Sialic Acid-Binding Motif of Maackia amurensis Lectins

1997 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 756-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Yamamoto ◽  
Y. Konami ◽  
T. Irimura
Keyword(s):  
Sialic Acid ◽  
Binding Motif ◽  
Maackia Amurensis ◽  
Sialic Acid Binding
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