N-glycan structures of murine hippocampus serine protease, neuropsin, produced in Trichoplusia ni cells

Glycoconj J. 1999 Aug;16(8):405-14. doi: 10.1023/a:1007082612019.

Abstract

N-glycans of neuropsin (serine protease in the murine hippocampus) expressed in Trichoplusia ni cells were released from the glycopeptides by digestion with glycoamidase A (from sweet almond), and the reducing ends of the oligosaccharides were reductively aminated with 2-aminopyridine. The derivatized N-glycans were separated and structurally identified by a two dimensional high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) mapping technique on two kinds of HPLC columns. Fourteen different major N-glycan structures were identified, of which 6 were high-mannose type (9.1%), and the remaining 8 were paucimannosidic type. The presence of insect specific N-glycan structures containing both alpha1,3- and alpha1,6- di-fucosylated innermost N-acetylglucosamine residue (23.3%), as below, was also confirmed by 600 MHz 1H-NMR spectroscopy.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Baculoviridae / genetics
  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Hippocampus / enzymology*
  • Kallikreins*
  • Lepidoptera / cytology
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Mice
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Polysaccharides / chemistry*
  • Recombinant Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • Serine Endopeptidases / chemistry*
  • Serine Endopeptidases / genetics

Substances

  • Polysaccharides
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • KLK8 protein, human
  • Kallikreins
  • Serine Endopeptidases