Isolation and characterization of linear polylactosamines containing one and two site-specifically positioned Lewis x determinants: WGA agarose chromatography in fractionation of mixtures generated by random, partial enzymatic α3-fucosylation of pure polylactosamines

Glycobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 517-526

  Niemelä, Ritva ^a   Natunen, Jari ^a   Penttilä, Leena ^a   Satminen, Heidi ^a   Helin, Jari ^a   Maaheimo, Hannu ^a   Costello, Catherine E ^b   Renkonen, Ossi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 fucosylation; Linear polylactosamines; Separation; Site specific; Wheat germ agglutinin

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; FUCOSE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; FRACTIONATION; GLYCOSYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AMINO SUGARS; ANTIGENS, CD15; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AGAROSE; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSYLATION; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE FUCOSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MILK, HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0033006383     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/9.5.517     Document Type: Article

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