Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 132, Issue 31, Pages 10654-10655Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja104077n
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S75727/01] Funding Source: researchfish
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The structural characterization of carbohydrate polymers is important for understanding their functions and behavior. However, mainstream structural biology tools are not applicable to many carbohydrate polymers, particularly at physiological concentrations. We report Raman and Raman optical activity spectra of hyaluronan polymer, the hyaluronan tetramer building block, and the two monosaccharide components glucuronic acid and N-acetylglucosamine and identify marker bands corresponding to primary and secondary structure in glycosaminoglycans. Furthermore, we show that the hyaluronan polymer does not adopt tertiary structure under near-physiological conditions, confirming a proposed model of hyaluronan structural organization.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available