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Motomu Oda, Shinji Ohta, Takayuki Suga, and Tadashi Aoki*
Nagasaki Prefectural Women’s Junior College, 1-4-1 Narutaki, Nagasaki 850, Japan, Instrument Center for Chemical Analysis, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739, Japan, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739, Japan, and Suzugamine Women’s College, 4-6-18 Inokuchi, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima 733, Japan
Received for review February 2, 1998. Revised manuscript received June 9, 1998. Accepted June 10, 1998. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, Japan.
Abstract:
The N-linked asialo carbohydrate, released by digestion treatment of the glycoprotein of the edible bird’s nest of Collocalia fuciphaga, was identified as L-asparagine-linked fucose-containing triantennary oligosaccharide, composed of Gal14GlcNAc14(Gal14GlcNAc12)Man13(Gal14GlcNAc12Man16)Man14GlcNAc14(Fuc16)GlcNAc1, on the basis of chemical and spectroscopic methods, in addition to GLC and HPLC analyses on achiral columns.
