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. 1992 Feb 15;282(Pt 1):267–271. doi: 10.1042/bj2820267

Skeletal keratan sulphate chains isolated from bovine intervertebral disc may terminate in alpha(2----6)-linked N-acetylneuraminic acid.

J M Dickenson 1, T N Huckerby 1, I A Nieduszynski 1
PMCID: PMC1130918  PMID: 1540142

Abstract

Peptido-keratan sulphate fragments were isolated from the nucleus pulposus of bovine intervertebral discs (2-year-old animals) after digestion with chondroitin ABC lyase followed by digestion with diphenylcarbamoyl chloride-treated trypsin of A1D1 proteoglycans and gel-permeation chromatography on Sepharose CL-6B. The peptido-keratan sulphate fragments were subjected to alkaline borohydride reduction. The reduced chains were treated with keratanase in the presence of the sialidase inhibitor 2,3-dehydro-2-deoxy-N-acetylneuraminic acid, and the digest was subjected to alkaline borohydride reduction. This produced oligosaccharides with galactitol at their reducing ends. This reduced digest was chromatographed on a Nucleosil 5 SB anion-exchange column and individual oligosaccharides were isolated. One of these was shown by 600 MHz 1H-n.m.r. spectroscopy to have the following structure: NeuAc alpha 2-6Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc(6-SO4)beta 1-3Gal-ol The structure of this oligosaccharide shows that keratan sulphate chains from bovine intervertebral disc have non-reducing termini with N-acetylneuraminic acid linked alpha(2----6) as well as alpha(2----3) to an unsulphated galactose.

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