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Sialic acids are cytoprotectors, mainly localized on the surface of cell membranes with multiple and outstanding cell biological functions. The history of their structural analysis, occurrence, and functions is fascinating and described in this review. Reports from different researchers on apparently similar substances from a variety of biological materials led to the identification of a 9-carbon monosaccharide, which in 1957 was designated "sialic acid." The most frequently occurring member of the sialic acid family is N-acetylneuraminic acid, followed by N-glycolylneuraminic acid and O-acetylated derivatives, and up to now over about 80 neuraminic acid derivatives have been described. They appeared first in the animal kingdom, ranging from echinoderms up to higher animals, in many microorganisms, and are also expressed in insects, but are absent in higher plants. Sialic acids are masks and ligands and play as such dual roles in biology. Their involvement in immunology and tumor biology, as well as in hereditary diseases, cannot be underestimated. N-Glycolylneuraminic acid is very special, as this sugar cannot be expressed by humans, but is a xenoantigen with pathogenetic potential. Sialidases (neuraminidases), which liberate sialic acids from cellular compounds, had been known from very early on from studies with influenza viruses. Sialyltransferases, which are responsible for the sialylation of glycans and elongation of polysialic acids, are studied because of their significance in development and, for instance, in cancer. As more information about the functions in health and disease is acquired, the use of sialic acids in the treatment of diseases is also envisaged.
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- Roland Schauer
- Biochemisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
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- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Knirel Y, Bailey M. Nikolay Konstantinovich Kochetkov 1915–2005. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2007; 61:2-28. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2318(07)61001-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Saito M, Kitamura H, Sugiyama K. Occurrence of gangliosides in the common squid and pacific octopus among protostomia. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1511:271-80. [PMID: 11286970 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(01)00282-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Acidic lipids from tissues of the common squid Todarodes pacificus and the pacific octopus Octopus vulgaris were characterized. Hepatopancreatic tissues of both animals had complex compositions of resorcinol-positive acidic lipids, many of which became reactive with cholera toxin B subunit and anti-G(M1) antibody after in situ treatment with sialidase on TLC. One of the major acidic lipids in squid tissue was isolated and examined for its structure. This acidic lipid was identified to be the ganglioside G(D1a) based upon the susceptibility to sialidases of different substrate specificity, characterization of reaction products, and electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry of the lipid. Hepatopancreatic tissues of squid and octopus also contained acidic lipids that reacted with A2B5, a monoclonal antibody specific to c-series gangliosides. Cerebral ganglia of both animals expressed resorcinol-positive acidic lipids, though their compositional patterns differed from the hepatopancreatic tissues. N-Acetylneuraminic acid was identified as the main species in lipid-bound sialic acid in both tissues. The contents of lipid-bound sialic acid in cerebral ganglia were significantly lower than those of hepatopancreatic tissues in both animals. The present study presents the first evidence for the occurrence of gangliosides in protostomia.
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- M Saito
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Fattorusso E, Mangoni A. Marine glycolipids. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE = PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS. PROGRES DANS LA CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES ORGANIQUES NATURELLES 1997; 72:215-301. [PMID: 9369093 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6527-0_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- E Fattorusso
- Dipartimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
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Muralikrishna G, Reuter G, Peter-Katalinić J, Egge H, Hanisch FG, Siebert HC, Schauer R. Identification of a new ganglioside from the starfish Asterias rubens. Carbohydr Res 1992; 236:321-6. [PMID: 1291056 DOI: 10.1016/0008-6215(92)85025-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- G Muralikrishna
- Biochemisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
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Krauss JH, Himmelspach K, Reuter G, Schauer R, Mayer H. Structural analysis of a novel sialic-acid-containing trisaccharide from Rhodobacter capsulatus 37b4 lipopolysaccharide. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 204:217-23. [PMID: 1310942 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16627.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Sialic-acid-containing lipopolysaccharides from Rhodobacter capsulatus 37b4 (S-form lipopolysaccharide), KB-1 (R-type lipopolysaccharide) and Sp 18 (deep R-type lipopolysaccharide) were investigated for the linkage and substitution of sialic acids. Methylation analysis and behaviour towards acid and enzymic hydrolysis indicated a non-reducing terminal location of sialic acids in the R-type lipopolysaccharide of strain Sp 18, whereas an internal, chain-linked location of sialic acids was found in the lipopolysaccharides of strains 37b4 and KB-1. For these latter strains, methylation analysis revealed a substitution of sialic acids by other sugars at position 7 for strain 37b4 and positions 4 and 7 for strain KB-1. In accordance with the chain-linked position of sialic acids, mild hydrolysis of R. capsulatus 37b4 lipopolysaccharide with acetic acid released a trisaccharide with sialic acid at the reducing terminus. Structural investigation of this trisaccharide by methylation analysis, 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy revealed the presence of the disaccharide Gal1-6Glc at the non-reducing end, probably with an alpha-anomeric configuration of the galactose residue, i.e. melibiose, beta-glycosidically linked to position 7 of sialic acid. Therefore the structure Gal alpha 1-6Glc beta 1-7Neu5Ac is proposed for this core oligosaccharide from R. capsulatus 37b4 lipopolysaccharide.
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- J H Krauss
- Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Thiem J, Sauerbrei B. Chemoenzymatische Synthesen von Sialyloligosacchariden mit immobilisierter Sialidase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1991. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.19911031126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Zvezdina ND, Sadykova KA, Martynova LE, Prokazova NV, Mikhailov AT, Buznikov GA, Bergelson LD. Gangliosides of sea urchin embryos. Their localization and participation in early development. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1989; 186:189-94. [PMID: 2598928 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb15194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The influence of antibodies to gangliosides of sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius eggs on early embryos of this species was studied. gamma-Globulins were isolated from rabbit anti-ganglioside serum by micropreparative electrophoresis. These gamma-globulins produced anomalies in the development of embryos permeabilized in Triton X-100. The anomalies were not observed when anti-ganglioside gamma-globulins were added to the incubation medium together with gangliosides or when the permeabilized embryos were incubated with gamma-globulins of normal rabbit serum. Pretreatment of S. intermedius embryos with serotonin, tryptamine or some other indole derivatives led to the disappearance of ganglioside determinants from the cell surface and sharply increased immunofluorescence within the cell. Such pretreatment of embryos increased the amount of cell-associated gangliosides more than threefold as compared to untreated embryos. Serotonin was shown to bind specifically to sea urchin gangliosides immobilized on octyl-Sepharose. These observations suggest that cell-surface gangliosides, after binding drugs, are internalized and that serotonin and its antagonists inhibit the transport of newly synthesized gangliosides to the cell-surface membrane.
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- N D Zvezdina
- N.K. Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Stults CL, Sweeley CC, Macher BA. Glycosphingolipids: structure, biological source, and properties. Methods Enzymol 1989; 179:167-214. [PMID: 2695766 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(89)79122-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Dias Filho BP, Alviano CS, de Souza W, Angluster J. Polysaccharide and glycolipid composition in Tritrichomonas foetus. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 20:329-35. [PMID: 3356298 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(88)90360-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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1. The polysaccharide and glycolipid composition in Tritrichomonas foetus was studied by paper, thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatographic analysis. 2. The carbohydrate components of the polysaccharide were glucose (47%), galactose (34%) and mannose (19%). N-acetylneuraminic acid was the sialic acid derivative characterized in the flagellate whole cells. 3. The sialic acid density was estimated as 2.7 x 10(7) residues/cell. 4. The long-chain base dihydrosphingosine, the carbohydrates galactose (67%), glucose (21%) and mannose (12%) as well as the fatty acids myristic (48%) and palmitic (52%) acids were characterized as components of the total glycolipids of T. foetus. 5. Total glycolipids were fractionated: a galactocerebroside and a ganglioside were identified.
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- B P Dias Filho
- Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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Secondary Metabolites from Echinoderms as Chemotaxonomic Markers. BIOORGANIC MARINE CHEMISTRY 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-48346-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cardoso DB, Angluster J, Travassos L, Alviano CS. Isolation and characterization of a glucocerebroside (monoglucosylceramide) from Sporothrix schenckii. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1987. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1987.tb02158.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Smirnova GP, Kochetkov NK, Sadovskaya VL. Gangliosides of the starfish Aphelasterias japonica, evidence for a new linkage between two N-glycolylneuraminic acid residues through the hydroxy group of the glycolic acid residue. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 920:47-55. [PMID: 3593756 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(87)90309-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Mono- and disialogangliosides containing glucose, galactose and sialic acids were isolated from the total lipid extract of hepatopancreas of the starfish Aphelasterias japonica. Their structures were elucidated by total and partial acid hydrolysis, trideuteriomethylation analysis, neuraminidase treatment, chromium trioxide oxidation, methanolysis and periodate oxidation. The monosialoganglioside was identified as 8-O-methyl-N-glycolylneuraminosyl-alpha-(2-3)-galactosyl-beta-(1- 4)-glucosyl-beta-(1-1)-ceramide. The disialoganglioside has the additional N-glycolylneuraminic acid or its 8-O-methyl derivative residue at the subterminal position to which the terminal sialic acid residue is linked through the hydroxy group of the glycolic acid unit. The long-chain bases were found to be mixtures of phytosphingosines with both branched and linear chains, and the fatty acids were shown to be mixtures of normal and alpha-hydroxy fatty acids, the latter amounted to about 90% of the fatty-acid mixtures. The composition of the lipid moieties of the gangliosides was determined by GLC and GLC-MS.
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Gangliosides with sialic acid bound to N-acetylgalactosamine from hepatopancreas of the starfish, Evasterias retifera and Asterias amurensis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(82)90294-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mikhailov AT, Prokazova NV, Zvezdina ND, Kocharov SL, Malchenko LA, Buznikov GA, Bergelson LD. Immunochemical study of gangliosides at the cell surface of sea urchin embryos. Differentiation 1981; 18:43-50. [PMID: 7014340 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.1981.tb01102.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Two main gangliosides (G-1 and G-2) were isolated from eggs and embryos S. intermedius. They contain glucose, N-glucolylneuraminic acids, phytosphyngosine, fatty acids and alpha-hydroxy fatty acids. Molar ratios and sequence of these components are the same for both gangliosides, but G-2 contains sulphate residue which is attached to the terminal neuraminic acid. To obtain specific antisera rabbits were immunized by G-1 or G-2, which were mixed with bovine serum albumin and Freund's adjuvant. Both gangliosides possessed electrophoretic and antigenic heterogeneity. G-1 and G-2 gangliosides have common and individual antigenic determinants. Glucosylceramide of gangliosides is immunologically inactive. Individual antigenic specificity of the gangliosides depends on the presence of N-glycolylneuraminic acid (G-1) and SO3H-group (G-2). Egg gangliosides were demonstrated by immunofluorescence throughout the cell surface. After fertilization of immunofluorescent label was concentrated on one pole of the embryo only. During the development of specific fluorescence was again uniformly distributed at the blastomer surface. The most intense fluorescence was observed in the junction areas of the blastomers.
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Prokazova NV, Mikhailov AT, Kocharov SL, Malchenko LA, Zvezdina ND, Buznikov G, Bergelson LD. Unusual gangliosides of eggs and embryos of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Structure and density-dependence of surface localization. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1981; 115:671-7. [PMID: 6786889 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1981.tb06255.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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From eggs and embryos of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius two gangliosides, provisionally named G-1 and G-2, were isolated in the pure state. Both gangliosides contained glucose, N-glycoloylneuraminic acid and sphingosines in a 2:2:1 ratio; G-2 contained also a sulfate group, and yielded G-1 on desulfation. By periodate oxidation/borohydride reduction, permethylation analysis, neuraminidase degradation, analysis of the aldohexitol acetates and mass-spectrometry G-1 and G-2 were shown to have hitherto unknown structures: G-1 was identified as N-glycoloylneuraminosyl-(alpha 2 leads to 6)-glucosyl-(1 leads to 8)-N-glycoloylneuraminosyl-(2 leads to 6)-glucosyl-(1 leads to 1)-ceramide, and G-2 as sulfated G-1, carrying a sulfate ester group at C-8 of the terminal sialic acid. Antisera against the two gangliosides were prepared in rabbits by immunization with ganglioside G-1 or G-2. The specificity of the antisera was revealed by immunoelectrophoresis and immunodiffusion. The antisera did not react with bovine-brain and rat-liver gangliosides, with glucosylceramide and with various hydrolytic fragments of G-1 and G-2. The surface localization of the gangliosides in embryos incubated at different cell densities was studied by immunofluorescence microscopy. The intensity of the immunofluorescence was found to increase with decreasing cell density, indicating a different surface organization in sparse and dense embryos. In the sparse embryos immunofluorescence was seen mainly in the contact regions between the blastomers.
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Smirnova GP, Kochetkov NK. A novel sialoglycolipid from hepatopancreas of the starfish Patiria pectinifera. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1980; 618:486-95. [PMID: 7397211 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(80)90267-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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An unusual sialoglycolipid containing D-glucose, D-galactose, L-arabinose and N-acetylneuraminic acid was purified from the total lipid extract of hepatopancreas of the starfish Patiria pectinifera. The structure of the sialolipid was studied by total and partial acid hydrolysis, methanolysis, periodate oxidation, methylation, chromium trioxide oxidation and enzymatic hydrolysis. The oligosaccharide chain of the sialolipid is branched: N-acetylneuraminic acid is located in the inner part of the carbohydrate chain; the arabinose residues are in furanose forms and are located at the non-reducing ends of the carbohydrate chain. The long-chain bases are C16-, C17- and C18-phytospingosines with both branched and normal chains. Only alpha-hydroxy fatty acids are found, C22-, C23- and C24-alpha-hydroxy fatty acids represent approx. 95% of the total fatty acids.
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Beau JM, Sinaÿ P. Synthèse de l'acide 4-O-méthyl-N-acétylneuraminique. Partie I. Acétonation du 3-acétamido-3-désoxy-d-glycéro-d-galacto-heptose diéthyldithioacétal. Carbohydr Res 1978. [DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6215(00)84207-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ledeen RW. Ganglioside structures and distribution: are they localized at the nerve ending? JOURNAL OF SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 1978; 8:1-17. [PMID: 366282 DOI: 10.1002/jss.400080102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Gangliosides generally provide a small portion of the complex carbohydrate content of cell surfaces. An exception is the central nervous system where they comprise up to 5--10% of the total lipid of some membranes. This tissue is unique in that the quantity of lipid-bound sialic acid exceeds that of the protein-bound fraction. Over 30 different molecular species have been characterized to date. These range in complexity from sialosylgalactosyl ceramide with 2 sugars to the pentasialoganglioside of fish brain with 9 carbohydrate units. Virtually all cellular and subcellular fractions of brain that have been carefully examined contain gangliosides to one degree or another, but the majority of brain ganglioside is located in the neurons. Their mode of distribution within the neuron has not been entirely clarified by subcellular studies. Calculations based on reported values for axon terminal density and synaptosomal ganglioside concentration in the rat reveal that nerve endings contribute less than 12% of total cerebral cortical ganglioside. It is concluded that the plasma membranes of neuronal processes contain most of the neuronal ganglioside. These and other considerations suggest the possibility that gangliosides may be distributed over the entire neuronal surface.
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Van Dessel G, Lagrou A, Hilderson HJ, Dierick W, Dacremont G. Quantitative determination of the neutral glycosyl ceramides in bovine thyroid gland. Biochimie 1977; 59:839-48. [PMID: 603792 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(77)80216-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Smirnova GP, Chekareva NV, Chizhov OS, Zolotarev BM, Kotchetkov NK. Mass spectrometry of sialic acids: Peracetylated methyl esters of 5-acylamino-3,5-dideoxy-nononic and -heptonic acids. Carbohydr Res 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6215(00)83308-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kunihiro U, Ineo I, Tamio Y. Glycolipid composition of human testis at different ages and the stereochemical configuration of seminolipid. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(77)90044-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Kochetkov NK, Smirnova GP, Chekareva NV. Isolation and structural studies of a sulfated sialosphingolipid from the sea urchin Echinocardium cordatum. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1976; 424:274-83. [PMID: 1252492 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(76)90195-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Three sialosphingolipids have been isolated from a lipid extract of gonads of the sea urchin Echinocardium cordatum by partition dialysis and DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. The structure of the sialosphingolipid containing sulfate group has been established. On the basis of the results of total and partial acid hydrolysis, methanolysis, methylation, periodate oxidation and enzymatic hydrolysis with neuraminidase the sulfated sialosphingolipid was identified as 8-sulfate-sialyl-alpha-(2 leads to 6)glucopyranosyl-(1 leads to 1)ceramide. The long-chain bases were mainly phytosphingosine and its C16 homologue. The fatty acids of the sialosphingolipid were the mixture of normal and alpha-hydroxy fatty acids, their compositions were analysed by gas-liquid chromatography.
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The glycosphingolipids have been found in many animal tissues, but the complexity of their molecular structure varies considerably among the different phyla. Relatively simple structures have been found in invertebrate species, while the most complex have been demonstrated in brain tissue of modern fishes and amphibians. The data on the phylogenetic distribution of the glycosphingolipids has been interpreted to indicate that a significant number of gene duplications, involving many different structural genes, may have occurred during a few specific periods of vertebrate evolution. The transition from invertebrate to jawless vertebrate, the divergence of rays and skates from true sharks, the advent of modern bony fishes and the transition from aquatic to terrestrial vertebrates, each could have veen accompained by duplications of genes involved in the synthesis and degradation of glycosphingolipids. The evolutionary study of such a multi-enzyme system may be one means to detect alterations in the genome as a whole. The apparent correspondence in time of these gene duplications involved in glycosphingolipid metabolism and periods of rapid vertebrate evolution which may have been accompanied by significant increases in the amount of cellular DNA suggests that such changes may have occurred via the mechanism of tetraploidization.
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Motonori H, Yoshitaka N. Novel sialosphingolipids from spermatozoa of the sea urchin Anthocidaris crassispina. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(75)90071-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hayashk A, Matsubara T, Matsuura F. Characterization of docosa-4,15-sphingadienine and 4-hydroxy-docosa-15-sphingenine in sphingophosphonolipids from Turbo cornutus by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry;. Chem Phys Lipids 1975; 14:102-5. [PMID: 1122564 DOI: 10.1016/0009-3084(75)90022-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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