PMID: 6170315Aug 4, 1981Paper

Hydrogen-bonded structure of the complex N-linked fetuin glycopeptide

Biochemistry
J C OberholtzerA F Horwitz

Abstract

The conformation of the N-linked complex glycopeptide of fetuin was examined with hydrogen-exchange techniques. The glycopeptide molecule contains eight acetamido hydrogens stemming from five N-acetylglucosamine residues and three N-acetylneuraminic acid residues and also one from the remaining sugar-peptide linkage. The hydrogen-exchange rates of these secondary amides were compared with small molecule model compounds having identical primary structures at their exchangeable hydrogen sites. Differences between the model rates and glycopeptide rates therefore cannot be accounted for by primary structure effects but reflect conformational features of the glycopeptide. Two glycopeptide hydrogens exhibit significantly hindered exchange; the rest exchange at the model rates. Removal of the three N-acetylneuraminic acid residues from terminal positions on the three branches of the glycopeptide removes the slowed hydrogens. The remaining ones continue to exchange at the model rate. These results indicate that two of the eight sugar acetamido hydrogens are involved in intramolecular hydrogen bonds. A likely structure includes two hydrogen bonds between the three N-acetylneuraminic acid residues. These two hydrogens, slowed to a modera...Continue Reading

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