FIGURE 8.

Proposed structural model of male and female mouse liver intact HS chains. The structure of male and female mouse liver HS chains has been predicted with combined data obtained from chain length (Fig. 1), heparin lyase digestion patterns (Fig. 2), SAX-HPLC disaccharide profile (Fig. 3), percentage of disaccharide composition (Table 1), and percentage of sulfated and N-unsubstituted disaccharides (Fig. 4). Note that there are three repeats of duplicated GlcA-GlcNAc, four repeats of triplicated GlcA-GlcNH₃⁺, and two repeats of triplicated GlcA-GlcNH₃⁺(6S).