Pinto MR, Gorin PA, Wait R, Mulloy B, Barreto-Bergter E Structures of the O-linked oligosaccharides of a complex glycoconjugate from Pseudallescheria boydii Glycobiology15(10) (2005)
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The structure was elucidated in this paper NCBI PubMed ID:15932920 Publication DOI:10.1093/glycob/cwi084 Journal NLM ID:9104124 Publisher: IRL Press at Oxford University Press Correspondence: eliana.bergtermicro.ufrj.br Institutions: Laboratory for Molecular Structure, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, South Mimms, UK, Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Faculty of Medicine, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division,Imperial College London, London, UK, Faculty of Medicine, Kennedy Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK, Laboratory for Molecular Structure, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Hertfordshire, UK
Nonreducing O-linked oligosaccharides were obtained from the peptidorhamnomannan of mycelia of Pseudallescheria boydii by alkaline β-elimination under reducing conditions. They were separated by GPC chromatography to give three oligosaccharide fractions. The major oligosaccharide from fraction 1 was characterized by a combination of techniques including electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (ESI MS/MS), matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI MS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and methylation gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. It was branched, with a principal chain of α-Rhap-(1→3)-α-Rhap-(1→3)-α-Manp-(1→2)-Man-ol substituted at O-6 of mannitol with an α-Glcp-(1→4)-β-Galp group. Species containing one and two additional α-Glcp-(1→4) substituents in the rhamnose branch were also present. The major component of fraction 2 was a substructure of oligosaccharide-1, lacking a hexose from the Glc-Gal branch. Fraction 3 contained a mixture of smaller, unbranched, oligosaccharides. In hapten inhibition tests, fractions 1 and 2 blocked the reaction between peptidorhamnomannan (PRM) and rabbit anti-P. boydii mycelium hyperimmune serum by ~75%, whereas fraction 3 inhibited by ~55%.
ESI MS, ELISA, mycelia, ESI MS/MS, MALDI MS, methylation-GC-MS, Pseudallescheria boydii mycelia, methylation GC-MS, Psedallescheria boydii