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. 2006 Mar;8(3):231–241. doi: 10.1593/neo.05781

Table 2.

Relative Proportion of Heparan [35S]Sulfate Disaccharides Yielded by Degradation with Heperitinases I and II.

HS Supernatants Cell Extracts
ma Tm1 Tm5 S11 ma Tm1 Tm5 S11
ΔUA-GlcNAc,6S 11 10 10 11 9 9 8 10
ΔUA-GlcNS 41 37 34 36 33 33 25 31
ΔUA-GlcNS,6S 29 43 41 35 36 44 44 35
ΔUA,2S-GlcNS,6S 19 11 15 18 22 14 23 24

The radioactivity of the disaccharides was measured after the separation (by paper chromatography) of compounds incubated with both heparitinases I and II. The types of uronic acid were not taken into account.

ma, melan-a; Tm1, Tm5, and S11 ,tumorigenic melanoma cell lines; ΔUA-GlcNS, O-(4-deoxy-hex-4-enopyranosyluronic acid)-(1-4)-2-sulfamino-D-glucose; ΔUA-GlcNAc,6S, O-(4-deoxy-hex-4-enopyranosyluronic acid)-(1-4)-2-acetamido-D-glucose 6-sulfate; ΔUA-GlcNS,6S, O-(4-deoxy-hex-4 enopyranosyluronic acid)-(1-4)-2-sulfamino-D-glucose 6-sulfate; ΔUA,2S-GlcNS,6S, O-(4-deoxyhex-4-enopyranosyluronic acid 2-sulfate)-(1-4)-2-sulfamino-D-glucose.