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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: Thromb Res. 2007 May 4;121(2):213–223. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2007.03.025

Table 1.

Disaccharide composition of ascidian and mammalian heparins.

Disaccharide % of the disaccharides
Test cella Whole bodyb PIHa,c
ΔUA-1→4-β-D-GlcN(6SO4) <1 1.4 <5
ΔUA-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4)(6SO4) 25 2.0 9-11
ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4) <1 47.5 6-8
ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4)(6SO4) 75 38.3 60-70
ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4)(3SO4) <1 8.0 <1
ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4)(3SO4)(6SO4) <1 2.8 <1
a

Data from reference 24.

b

This work.

c

PIH, porcine intestinal heparin (data not published).

The assigned peaks correspond to the disaccharides: ΔIIIs, ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4); ΔIs, ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4)(6SO4); ΔIs ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4)(3SO4)(6SO4); ΔIIIs, ΔUA(2SO4)-1→4-β-D-GlcN(SO4) (3SO4).