Journal
GLYCOBIOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 314-332Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwab124
Keywords
free N-glycans (FNGs); Gn1-type FNGs; high-mannose-type FNGs; serum; sialyl FNGs
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Funding
- RIKEN pioneering project (glyco-lipidologue initiative)
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development-Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (AMED-CREST) [JP21gm1410003]
- [18H03990]
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Recent studies have shown the presence of sialyl free N-glycans in animal sera, with a variety of neutral and sialylated FNGs. The formation mechanism of these FNGs remains unclear, and different species have varying ratios of Gn1-type sialyl FNGs. The discovery of small sialylated glycans similar to milk oligosaccharides in sera indicates a complex mechanism behind the formation of free oligosaccharides.
Recent studies demonstrated the occurrence of sialyl free N-glycans (FNGs) in sera from a variety of animals. Unlike the intracellular FNGs that mainly carry a single N-acetylglucosamine at their reducing termini (Gn1-type), these extracellular FNGs have an N,N '-diacetylchitobiose at their reducing termini (Gn2-type). The detailed mechanism for how they are formed, however, remains unclarified. In this study, we report on an improved method for isolating FNGs from sera and found that, not only sialyl FNGs, but also neutral FNGs are present in animal sera. Most of the neutral oligomannose-type FNGs were found to be Gn1-type. We also found that a small portion of sialyl FNGs were Gn1-type. The ratio of Gn1-type sialyl FNGs varies between species, and appears to be partially correlated with the distribution of lysosomal chitobiase activity. We also identified small sialylated glycans similar to milk oligosaccharides, such as sialyl lactose or sialyl N-acetyllactosamine in sera. Our results indicate that there are varieties of free oligosaccharides in sera and the mechanism responsible for their formation is more complicated than currently envisaged.
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