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JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 77, 期 1, 页码 123-135出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1656(99)00211-4
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polysaccharides; NMR; heparin; dermatan sulphate; fucosylated chondroitin sulphate; sulphated fucan
Sulphated polysaccharides have many biological functions, which depend on binding of highly specific carbohydrate structures to proteins. NMR spectroscopy is a technique capable of de tailed structural elucidation of these polysaccharides, and can be used in applications ranging from routine analysis to research into covalent and conformational aspects of polysaccharide structure. This technique can be used to characterise sequence variations in heparin samples. The NMR-determined solution conformation of heparin has been used to predict binding sites on the surface of heparin-binding proteins. Sulphation patterns for dermatan sulphates of marine invertebrates have been determined. Their anticoagulant effects depend on an exact pattern of sulphate substitution. A small alteration in dermatan sulphate structure, from 4-O-sulphated to 6-O-sulphated galactosamine, leads to almost complete loss of anticoagulant activity in spite of an overall high level of sulphation. A fucosylated chondroitin sulphate isolated from sea cucumber has anticoagulant and antithrombotic activity depending on its sulphated fucose branches. The anticoagulant activity of algal fucans has been compared with that of regular, linear sulphated fucans from marine echinoderms; again high activity appears to correlate with the presence of sulphated fucose branches. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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