Abstract
Heparin lyases are valuable tools for generating oligosaccharide fragments and in sequence determination of heparan sulfate (HS). Heparin lyase III is known to cleave the linkages between N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) or N-sulfated glucosamine (GlcNS) and glucuronic acid (GlcA) as the primary sites and the linkages between GlcNAc, GlcNAc(6S), or GlcNS and iduronic acid as secondary sites. N-Unsubstituted glucosamine (GlcN) occurs as a minor component in HS, and it has been associated with various bioactivities. Here we investigate the specificity of heparin lyase III toward the GlcN-GlcA linkage using a recombinant enzyme of high purity and as substrates the partially de-N-acetylated polysaccharide of Escherichia coli K5 strain and derived hexasaccharides. The specificity of lyase III toward the GlcN-GlcA linkage is deduced by sequencing of the oligosaccharide products using electrospray mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation and MS/MS scanning. The results demonstrate that under controlled conditions for partial digestion, lyase III does not act at the GlcN-GlcA linkage, whereas GlcNAc-GlcA is cleaved. Even under forced conditions for exhaustive digestion, the GlcN-GlcA linkage is only partly cleaved. It is this ...Continue Reading
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