1. A new fucosylated glycosaminoglycan containing disaccharide branches from Acaudina molpadioides: Unusual structure and anti-intrinsic tenase activity.
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Mao, Hui, Cai, Ying, Li, Shanni, Sun, Huifang, Lin, Lisha, Pan, Ying, Yang, Wenjiao, He, Zhicheng, Chen, Ru, Zhou, Lutan, Wang, Weili, Yin, Ronghua, and Zhao, Jinhua
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DISACCHARIDES , *GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS , *BIOLOGICAL assay , *SEA cucumbers , *MONOSACCHARIDES , *OLIGOSACCHARIDES , *CHONDROITIN sulfates - Abstract
• A novel FG (AmFG) were extracted from sea cucumber Acaudina molpadioides. • The structures of eight oligosaccharides from depolymerized AmFG were determined. • AmFG branched with unusual disaccharide GalNAc-α1,2-Fuc, besides monosaccharides. • The anticoagulant and anti-iXase activities of AmFG and oligomers were discussed. A fucosylated glycosaminoglycan (AmFG) was extracted from the sea cucumber Acaudina molpadioides. And a series of oligosaccharides were purified from the size-homogeneous fractions, which were prepared from the β-eliminative depolymerized AmFG. According to "bottom-up" strategy, the precise structure of AmFG was elucidated by analyzing the structures of these purified oligosaccharides, combining with NMR analysis of its free-radical depolymerized product. It contained a CS-E-like backbone, and each GlcUA was branched with a mono- or di-sulfated fucose (Fuc) at O -3. Intriguingly, besides two types of monosaccharide branches, Fuc 2S4S (60 %) and Fuc 4S (25 %), that were common in FG, AmFG also contained an unusual disaccharide branch GalNAc-α1,2-Fuc 3S4S (15 %); this is the first report of such a structure in a glycosaminoglycan. Biological assays indicated that native AmFG and its oligosaccharides had potent anticoagulant and intrinsic tenase (iXase) inhibitory activities in a chain length-dependent manner. For these oligosaccharides, octasaccharide was the minimum structural fragment for potent anti-iXase activity, and the disaccharide branch might enhance this activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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