Abstract
The phosphosaccharide-inositol core of the lipophosphoglycan of Leishmania donovani was generated by treatment of the glycoconjugate with mild acid and digestion with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. The core was purified and examined by one- and two-dimensional 1H-1H NMR and by methylation analysis. From the results, the carbohydrate core was elucidated as a phosphosaccharide attached to the inositol residue of the lyso-alkylphosphatidylinositol anchor of lipophosphoglycan as follows: PO4?6Galp(a1?6)Galp(a1?3)Galf(a1?3)Manp(a1?3)Manp(a1?4)GlcNp(a1?6)myo-inositol. The presence of an internal galactofuranose residue is highly unusual and the Manp(a1?4)GlcNp(a1?6)myo-inositol sequence is homologous to the respective portion of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors reported for both the Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein and the rat brain Thy-1 glycoprotein.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6711-6715 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Biological Chemistry |
| Volume | 264 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 25 Apr 1989 |
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