Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
Organ / tissue: cell wall
The structure was elucidated in this paperNCBI PubMed ID: 7536675Journal NLM ID: 7906240Institutions: Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Several cell wall proteins released from yeast and hyphal cells of Candida albicans by laminarinase reacted with an affinity-purified antiserum raised against β-1,6-glucan. Binding of the antiserum was competitively inhibited by β-1,6-glucan, but not by β-1,3-glucan or isolated N-chains. Immunodetection was completely abolished when the proteins were treated with periodate. These results demonstrate that the laminarinase-released wall proteins of C. albicans possess an epitope consisting of β-1,6-linked glucose residues. The yeast form of C. albicans contained four β-1,6-glucosylated wall proteins, an Endo H-resistant protein of 125 kDa and three glycoproteins which became only detectable after Endo H digestion and had a molecular mass of 320, 170 and 44 kDa, respectively. As for the hyphal form, a different set of β-1,6-glucosylated wall proteins was found consisting of two Endo H-resistant glycoproteins of 125 and 80 kDa, respectively, and two glycoproteins that after Endo H digestion had a molecular mass of 320 and 38 kDa, respectively. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-extractable wall proteins and medium proteins did not react with the β-1,6-glucan antiserum. The β-1,6-glucan epitope could be removed by aqueous hydrofluoric acid indicating that the epitope is phosphodiester-linked to the cell wall proteins. It is speculated that the epitope forms part of a GPI-anchor and might be involved in the anchoring of mannoproteins into the cell wall.
Structure type: homopolymer
Trivial name: pustulan, β-1,6-glucan, β-1,6-D-glucan, β(1-6)-D-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, pustulan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, β-(1,6)-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, pustulan, β-1,6-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, pustulan, β-(1→6)-glucan PCPS, water-soluble glucan (PS-I)
Compound class: EPS, O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, glycoprotein, glucan, polysaccharide, cell wall glucoprotein
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135614,IEDB_141806,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_241101,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Related record ID(s): 47842, 47843, 48303, 48366, 48412, 48423, 48443, 49291, 101372, 126052, 138263, 143682, 149870, 149873
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 5476Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G26777BZ, GlycomeDB:
863, CCSD:
50854, CBank-STR:4234
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There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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