PMID: 429287Apr 10, 1979Paper

Carbon 13 NMR spectroscopy of a cerebroside. Proof of the beta-pyranosyl structure of D-glucosylceramide

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
T A KoernerY T Li

Abstract

The first 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of a cerebroside is reported. All signals of D-glucosylceramide (I), the cerebroside from human Gaucher's diseased liver, have been assigned by comparison of their chemical shifts with those of model compounds. This data has been used to demonstrate for the first time directly: (a) that the glucosyl moiety must exist in the pyranoside ring form and have a beta anomeric linkage, and (b) that the fatty acyl composition of the aglycon is: alpha-hydroxy, 0%; saturated, 86 +/- 2%; unsaturated long chain, 14 +/- 2%; and unsaturated short chain, less than or equal to 2%. The use of 13C signal shifts in the delta 80 to 120 region (anomeric window) for the assignment of glycon anomeric and ring forms demonstrated herein should be applicable to other glycoconjugates.

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