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  • Title: The structures of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of rat liver cathepsin L reflect the substrate specificity of lysosomal alpha-mannosidase.
    Author: Towatari T, Miyamura T, Kondo A, Kato I, Inoue M, Yano M, Kido H.
    Journal: Eur J Biochem; 1998 Aug 15; 256(1):163-9. PubMed ID: 9746360.
    Abstract:
    We have studied the structures of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of cathepsin L purified from rat liver in detail. The oligosaccharides released from rat liver cathepsin L on glycopeptidase-F treatment were tagged with 2-aminopyridine at their reducing ends. The pyridylamino (PA) derivatives were separated into seven fractions according to molecular size by normal-phase HPLC. The structure of each oligosaccharide thus isolated was analyzed by reversed-phase HPLC and characterized by ion-spray mass spectrometry and high-resolution proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy. Our results indicate that the asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of rat liver cathepsin L are of the oligomannose type, having two to six mannose residues. Among them, the five major ones are Manalpha1-6Manbeta1-4-GlcNAcbeta1-4GlcNAc, Manalpha1 -6Manalpha1-6Manbeta1-4GIcNAcbeta1-4GlcNAc, Manalpha1-6(Manalpha1-3)-Manalpha1-6Manbeta1- 4GlcNAcbeta1-4GlcNAc, Manalpha1-6(Manalpha1-3)Manalpha1-6(Manalpha1-3) Manbeta1-4Glc-NAcbeta1-4GlcNAc, and Manalpha1-6(Manalpha1-3)Manalpha1-6(Manalpha1-++ +2Manalpha1-3)Manbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta1-4Glc-NAc. Their structures are shown to be products of Man6GlcNAc2 hydrolysis with lysosomal alpha-mannosidase.
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