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Query: EC:3.1.1.53 (
sialidase
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Exogenous gangliosides are known to affect the metabolism when administered to the body. To study the mechanism of this effect three types of gangliosides were administered intraperitoneally to mice and the changes in the enzyme activity of the cerebral tissues studied. The effect of
GM2
from bovine brain was characterized by a decrease in the activity of various aminopeptidases, while GD3 from cow's milk caused an increase in the activity of sugar-related enzymes such as
sialidase
, glucosidase, and fucosidase. GM3 from horse erythrocytes showed intermediate effects between
GM2
and GD3. Multivariate analysis showed that the effects of the three gangliosides are clearly separable statistically. These results which demonstrate the sugar moiety-specificity of gangliosides are discussed in relation to the A and B pathways of ganglioside synthesis.
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PMID:Gangliosides administration causes sugar moiety-specific enzymatic changes in brain. 188 33
The adherence of the human respiratory pathogen, Bordetella pertussis, to purified glycosphingolipids was investigated using thin layer chromatography overlay assays. Both virulent and avirulent strains of B. pertussis bound to asialo GM1. The bacterium did not bind to the gangliosides GM1, GD1a, GD1b, and GT1b, nor to lactosylceramide, trihexosylceramide, globoside, or Forssman antigen. However, after treatment of the chromatography plates with
sialidase
, B. pertussis bound to the gangliosides GM1,
GM2
, GD1a, GD1b, and GT1b but not to GM3. Comparison of the oligosaccharide structures of these gangliosides suggests that the minimum sugar structure needed for avid bacterial binding is GalNAc beta 4Gal. This structure has been previously implicated as a receptor for other human respiratory pathogens (Krivan, H. C., Roberts, D. D., Ginsburg, V. (1988) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 85, 6157-6161). Virulent strains of B. pertussis also bound specifically to sulfatide. This response was dose-dependent and inhibited by the anionic polysaccharide dextran sulfate. The sulfated-sugars dextran sulfate, fucoidan, and heparin inhibited the attachment of virulent strains of B. pertussis to human WiDr cells and to hamster trachea cells indicating that sulfatides on the surface of mammalian cells may function as a receptor for B. pertussis. The occurrence of both sulfatides and asialo GM1 in human lung and trachea suggests that these glycolipids may serve as specific receptors for B. pertussis.
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PMID:Adhesion of Bordetella pertussis to sulfatides and to the GalNAc beta 4Gal sequence found in glycosphingolipids. 191 2
The patterns of acidic and neutral glycosphingolipids (GSLs) were examined in a syngeneic tumour system in Balb/c mice consisting of closely related cell lines with different colonisation potentials directed to the murine lungs (in vivo selected highly metastatic sublines of L1-fibrosarcoma cells and their WGA-resistant mutants with low metastatic potential). GSLs were analysed by high-performance thin-layer chromatography and structurally identified by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry combined with compositional analyses and exo-glycosidase digestion. The results suggest that highly metastatic sublines L1-LM and L1-LM12 derived by in vivo selection from mouse fibrosarcoma cells (cell line L1) exhibit a drastic increase of polar ganglioside expression and a restriction to globo-series GSLs. Contrasting with this the low metastatic mutant cells (L1-LM13WGA) express a reduced portion of acidic GSLs and exhibit a shift to less polar ganglioside components. Total cellular and plasma membrane-integrated GSLs were demonstrated to exhibit largely identical patterns. Concomitant with a significant decrease in LacCer expression a substantial reduction of
GM2
and a complete lack of GM3 expression can be assigned to the highly metastatic sublines of L1-cells. On the other hand, the more polar gangliosides GM1a and, to an even greater extent, GD1a (exceeding 70% of total gangliosides) accumulate on L1-LM and their clonal sublines. The shift to acidic GSLs of higher polarity is less pronounced on the low metastatic WGA-resistant mutant cells (L1-LM13WGA) showing a preponderance of GM1a. The portion of GD1a within the fractions of acidic GSLs does not correspond to the cellular activities of CMP-NeuAc/GM1 (alpha 2-3) sialyltransferase measured for high and low metastatic cell variants. Total sialic acid content of the various cell lines differs, but is not associated with the metastatic potential. Gangliosides on L1-cells exhibit a significant substitution of N-glycolyl for N-acetylneuraminic acid (13%) compared to their metastatic sublines and to mutant cells (less than 1%). A conversion of surface exposed GD1a to GM1a on membranes of metastatic cells by in situ treatment with Vibrio cholerae
sialidase
is associated with a significant reduction of tumour cell colonisation directed to the murine lungs.
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PMID:Glycosphingolipid expression on murine L1-fibrosarcoma cells: analysis of clonal in vivo and in vitro selected sublines with different lung colonisation potential. 237 82
Ganglioside-hydrolyzing
sialidase
activity was solubilized from rat brain particulate fraction by using Triton X-100 plus sodium deoxycholate. When chromatographed on AH-Sepharose 4B, the solubilized activity was resolved into two peaks, which were designated sialidases I and II in order of elution. The two sialidases were purified by using sequential chromatographies on Octyl-Sepharose CL-4B, Phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B, and Sephadex G-200. Sialidase II was purified further by Mono Q-FPLC. Overall purification was 450- and 2,150-fold, for sialidases I and II, respectively. Purified sialidases I and II were maximally active at near pH 5.0 and exhibited M = 70,000 by gel filtration. Sialidase I hydrolyzed gangliosides but scarcely other substrates including 4-methylumbelliferyl-NeuAc (4MU-NeuAc). Sialidase II hydrolyzed oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, and 4MU-NeuAc although gangliosides appeared to be preferential substrates. Sialidase II cleaved
GM2
much faster than
sialidase
I. An antibody raised in rabbits against
sialidase
I reacted with only
sialidase
I and an antibody against
sialidase
II reacted with only
sialidase
II. A subcellular distribution study suggested
sialidase
I in the synaptosomal membrane and
sialidase
II in the synaptosomal and lysosomal membranes, and this was verified by using the above antibodies.
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PMID:Biochemical and immunological studies on two distinct ganglioside-hydrolyzing sialidases from the particulate fraction of rat brain. 239 42
Sensitive staining methods with wheat germ agglutinin were developed for the detection of glycosphingolipids of neolacto series (A) and gangliosides with a terminal N-acetylneuraminyl residue (B) on thin-layer chromatograms. (A) Neolacto series glycosphingolipids were treated by beta-galactosidase on the chromatograms in the presence of taurodeoxycholate. Then the chromatograms were incubated with biotinated wheat germ agglutinin followed by incubation with a complex of avidin and biotinated horseradish peroxidase, and the reaction was detected by 4-chloro-1-naphthol. In the case of gangliosides,
sialidase
treatment on the chromatograms was performed before the beta-galactosidase treatment. The sensitivity of the method for Lc3Cer, nLc4Cer, sialyl-nLc4Cer, and sialyl-nLc6Cer was 4 pmol, 7.6 pmol, 2.9 pmol and 1.4 pmol, respectively. (B) The gangliosides on the chromatograms were oxidized by periodic acid and reduced by NaBH4. Then the chromatograms were stained with wheat germ agglutinin as mentioned above. As little as 0.5 pmol of GM3, NeuAc-nLc4Cer, and NeuAc-nLc6Cer was detected by this method, whereas the detected limits for these gangliosides were 10 pmol, 10 pmol and 2 pmol, respectively, when periodate oxidation was omitted. GM4, GD3 and GD1a were an order less reactive than GM3,
GM2
, GM1 or GD1b were not stained under the same condition. In contrast to NeuAc-containing gangliosides, any gangliosides with N-glycolylneuraminic acid were not stained by the method in (B).
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PMID:Specific staining on thin-layer chromatograms of glycosphingolipids of neolacto series and gangliosides with a terminal N-acetylneuraminyl residue by different procedures with wheat germ agglutinin. 246 40
Gangliosides isolated from 5 cases of normal liver tissues, 11 cases of liver cirrhosis and 5 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma were compared in their concentrations and compositions. Quantitative analysis revealed no significant change of ganglioside levels between normal and cirrhotic liver tissues or hepatocellular carcinoma. There was also no significant difference (p greater than 0.05) between cirrhotic liver tissues and hepatocellular carcinoma. Two dimensional thin-layer chromatography of the total ganglioside preparations of liver tissues from both liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma showed proliferation of
GM2
, GD3, GD1 and at least two unidentified components, named provisionally spots Nos. 1 and 2 in the present report, and loss of GM3. Sialidase treatment and thin-layer chromatography showed the components of these spots to be
sialidase
-labile monosialogangliosides and distinctly different from GD3 which was described elsewhere.
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PMID:Ganglioside variations in human liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma as shown by two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography. 285 12
Metabolism of [3H]ganglioside derivatives GM3-amide and
GM2
-amide has been investigated in normal human skin fibroblasts. In a cell-free system the ganglioside analogues have been shown to enter biosynthetic pathways, their degradation, however, was curtailed at an early stage, as GM3-amide could not be hydrolysed by
sialidase
action.
GM2
-amide was susceptible to beta-hexosaminidase degradation yielding GM3-amide. When incorporated into fibroblasts [3H]
GM2
-amide was degraded to [3H]GM3-amide presumably in the lysosomes, and at the same time glycosylation to [3H]GD1a-monoamide took place most likely in the Golgi apparatus. [3H]GM3-amide, however, did not seem to reach the glycosylation sites in the Golgi apparatus. It could be detected in the lysosomes, where it was not degraded due to its
sialidase
resistance. From these results we conclude that in cells exogenously administered [3H]GM3-amide and [3H]
GM2
-amide both are directed to the lysosomes and that [3H]
GM2
-amide also reaches the Golgi apparatus. The synthesis of higher [3H]ganglioside-amides from incorporated [3H]
GM2
-amide can occur by direct glycosylation. [3H]GM3-amide, however, even if it reaches the Golgi compartment, does not enter the biosynthetic pathway.
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PMID:Metabolism of ganglioside-amides in cultured human fibroblasts. 312 67
Ganglioside GM1(NeuAc), labeled at the C-3 position of sphingosine with tritium, was injected into C3H/He, C57BL/10, B10.AQR mice intraperitoneally. The incorporation and the distribution of the radioactivity in various organs were examined. The injected [3H]GM1(NeuAc) was mainly incorporated in the liver and hydrolyzed sequentially. Sialic acid of ganglioside GM1(NeuAc) and metabolites was converted to N-glycolyl type from N-acetyl type. An appreciable amount of the sphingosine moiety in the administered GM1(NeuAc), moreover, was reutilized, being converted to sphingomyelin, and incorporated into alkyl chain of the ether lipid in phosphatidylethanolamine. The distributions of radioactivity in the metabolites of GM1(NeuAc) administered to the three strains of mice were different from each other. In other organs, GM1(NeuAc) was incorporated and metabolized only slightly. The N-methylamide, at the carboxyl group of the sialic acid, of the labeled ganglioside GM1(GM1(NeuAc)-NMe) was injected into C3H/He mice. Most of the administered [3H]GM1(NeuAc)-NMe was incorporated in the liver, and was metabolized to GM3(NeuAc)-NMe, via
GM2
(NeuAc)-NMe, within 24 h. GM3(NeuAc)-NMe was the only radioactive compound in the subsequent 10 weeks, but disappeared from the liver gradually. N-Methylamide-modified gangliosides were resistant to hydrolysis by mouse hepatic
sialidase
, to elongation by glycosyltransferase and to N-glycolylation at N-acetylneuraminic acid by monooxygenase.
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PMID:Metabolism of exogenous gangliosides GM1 and chemically modified GM1 in mice. 322 Aug 34
Glycolipids of murine lymphoma cell lines with low metastatic (Eb) and high metastatic (ESb) potentials have been investigated. The Eb cell line was characterized by a high quantity of gangliotriaosylceramide (Gg3), gangliotetraosylceramide (Gg4), GM1b, and a new type of disialoganglioside, termed GD1 alpha. In contrast, the high metastatic ESb cell line was characterized by the absence of these glycolipids and instead by the presence of GM3,
GM2
, GM1a, GD1a, and GD1b gangliosides. A clear cell surface reactivity with monoclonal antibody anti-Gg3 (2D4) was observed only in Eb cells. Thus, Eb cells are distinct from ESb cells in their ability to add the GalNAc residue to LacCer, supplying Gg3 for synthesis of a series of glycolipids via an asialogangliotetraosyl pathway, while ESb cells are capable of synthesizing GM3, which initiates synthesis of ganglio-series gangliosides
GM2
, GM1a, GD1a, and GD1b. While disialogangliosides of ESb cells were identified as GD1a and GD1b, a disialoganglioside isolated from Eb cells was characterized as having a novel structure (referred to as GD1 alpha) as follows: (formula; see text) Thus, Eb and ESb cells are clearly different in their qualitative sialylation patterns, i.e., the position of sialic acid residues. Cell surface labeling with galactose-oxidase/NaB[3H]4 revealed a high exposure of Gg3 and Gg4 at the Eb cell surface, while both labels were absent in ESb cells. In contrast, ESb cells showed a substantial label at GM1a, which was greatly enhanced after
sialidase
treatment.
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PMID:Qualitative differences in position of sialylation and surface expression of glycolipids between murine lymphomas with low metastatic (Eb) and high metastatic (ESb) potentials and isolation of a novel disialoganglioside (GD1 alpha) from Eb cells. 348 80
A
sialidase
[EC 3.2.1.18] has been partially purified from human placenta by means of procedures comprising Con A-Sepharose adsorption, ammonium sulfate precipitation, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and high-pressure liquid chromatography on a Shim pack Diol 300 column. On high-pressure liquid chromatography, most of the beta-galactosidase that comigrated with the
sialidase
on sucrose density gradient centrifugation was removed. The
sialidase
was purified 3,600-fold from the preparation obtained by Con A-Sepharose adsorption. The enzyme liberated the sialic acid residues from (alpha 2-3) and (alpha 2-6) sialyllactose, colomic acid, fetuin, and transferrin, but not from bovine submaxillary mucin. The enzyme also hydrolyzed gangliosides GM3, GD1a, and GD1b in the presence of sodium cholate as a detergent, but GM1 and
GM2
were less susceptible to the enzyme. The optimum pHs for 4-methylumbelliferyl-N-acetylneuraminate, sialyllactose, fetuin, and GM3 lay between 4.0 and 5.0.
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PMID:Human placental sialidase: partial purification and characterization. 365 92
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