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Query: EC:3.1.1.53 (sialidase)
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More than ten new types of gangliosides, in addition to haematoside and sialosylparagloboside, were isolated from human erythrocyte membranes. These were separated by successive chromatographies on DEAE-Sephadex, on porous silica-gel columns and on thin-layer silica gel as acetylated compounds. Highly potent blood-group-Ii and moderate blood-group-H activities were demonstrated in some of the ganglioside fractions. The gangliosides incorporated into cholesterol/phosphatidylcholine liposomes stoicheiometrically inhibited binding of anti-(blood-group I and i) antibodies to a radioiodinated blood-group-Ii-active glycoprotein. The fraction with the highest blood-group-I-activity, I(g) fraction, behaved like sialosyl-deca- to -dodeca-glycosylceramides on t.l.c. Certain blood-group-I and most of the -i determinants were in partially or completely cryptic form and could be unmasked by sialidase treatment. Thus the I and i antigens, which are known to occur on internal structures of blood-group-ABH-active glycoproteins in secretions, also occur in the interior of the carbohydrate chains of erythrocyte gangliosides.
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PMID:Blood-group-Ii-active gangliosides of human erythrocyte membranes. 68 69

Histochemical analyses of the chemical structures of sugar sequences with or without blood group specificity were carried out by combined stepwise digestion of tissue sections with exo- and endoglycosidases and subsequent lectin stainings in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded human pancreas. In acinar cells from blood group A or AB secretor individuals, sequential digestion with alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase and alpha-L-fucosidase imparted reactivity with peanut agglutinin (PNA) in cells reactive with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin as well as those with Ulex europaeus agglutinin I(UEA-I). Simple fucosidase digestion imparted the PNA reactivity only in UEA-I reactive cells. Sequential digestion with alpha-galactosidase and fucosidase likewise liberated the PNA binding sites in Griffonia simplicifolia agglutinin I-B4 reactive cells from blood group B and AB secretors. Sialidase digestion liberated the PNA binding sites not only in acinar cells but also intercalated duct cells, islet cells of Langerhans and endothelial cells. The PNA reactivity obtained by these enzyme digestions was eliminted by endo-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (endo-GalNAcdase) digestion. Preexisting PNA affinity in acinar cells from non-secretors was also susceptible to endo-GalNAcdase treatment. Following the endo-GalNAcdase digestion, fucosidase or sialidase digestion recovered the PNA reactivity in acinar cells from nonsecretors. These results show that ABH determinants carried on O-glycosidically linked type 3 chain (D-galactose-(beta 1-3)-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine alpha 1-serine or threonine) are secreted in pancreatic acinar cells and suggest that product coded by the secretor gene is required for the complete conversion of type 3 precursor chains into H determinants.
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PMID:Histochemical demonstration of O-glycosidically linked, type 3 based ABH antigens in human pancreas using lectin staining and glycosidase digestion procedures. 247 5

We previously reported that the oligosaccharide chains of hog gastric mucin were degraded by unidentified subpopulations numbering approximately 1% of normal human fecal bacteria. Here we report on the enzyme-producing properties of five strains of mucin oligosaccharide chain-degrading bacteria isolated from feces of four healthy subjects. Four were isolated from the greatest fecal dilutions yielding mucin side chain-degrading activity in culture, and thus were the numerically dominant side chain-degrading bacteria in their respective hosts. Three were Ruminococcus strains and two were Bifidobacterium strains. Two Ruminococcus torques strains, IX-70 and VIII-239, produced blood group A- and H-degrading alpha-glycosidase activities, sialidase, and the requisite beta-glycosidases; these strains released greater than 90% of the anthrone-reacting hexoses from hog gastric mucin during growth in culture. The Bifidobacterium strains lacked A-degrading activity but were otherwise similar; these released 60-80% of the anthrone-reacting hexoses but not the A antigenic structures from hog gastric mucin. Only Ruminococcus AB strain VI-268 produced blood group B-degrading alpha-galactosidase activity, but this strain lacked beta-N-acetylhexosaminidases to complete degradation of B antigenic chains. When this strain was co-cultured with a strain that produced beta-N-acetylhexosaminidases, release of hexoses from blood group B salivary glycoprotein increased from 50 to greater than 90%, and bacterial growth was enhanced. The glycosidases required for side chain degradation were produced by these strains in the absence of mucin substrate, and a substantial fraction of each activity in stationary phase cultures was extracellular. In contrast, none of 16 other fecal Bacteroides, Escherichia coli, Streptococcus faecalis, and Bifidobacterium strains produced ABH blood group-degrading enzymes; other glycosidases produced by these strains were predominantly cell bound except for extracellular beta-N-acetylhexosaminidases produced by the five S. faecalis strains. We conclude that certain Bifidobacterium and Ruminococcus strains are numerically dominant populations degrading mucin oligosaccharides in the human colon due to their constitutive production of the requisite extracellular glycosidases including blood group antigen-specific alpha-glycosidases. These properties characterize them as a functionally distinct subpopulation of normal human enteric microflora comprised of specialized subsets that produce blood group H antigen-degrading glycosidases alone or together with either blood group A- or B-degrading glycosidases.
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PMID:Mucin degradation in human colon ecosystems. Isolation and properties of fecal strains that degrade ABH blood group antigens and oligosaccharides from mucin glycoproteins. 392 Feb 48

ABH isoantigen of 154 superficial urothelial tumor including 11 carcinoma in situ of the bladder (CIS) was investigated by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (ABC) method, and the results were compared with those obtained by the specific red cell adherence (SRCA) test. T (Thomsen-Friedenreich) antigen, a precursor of other blood group antigen than ABC, was also investigated by ABC method. ABH antigen detected by ABC method seemed to be correlated to tumor grade and recurrence rate, while that by SRCA method did not. Sixty two percent of the low grade papillary bladder tumor of blood group other than O was positive by ABC method. As for the recurrence rate of low grade tumor, 11 of 33 cases (33%) with positive ABH isoantigen showed recurrence, while 13 of 21 cases (62%) without ABH isoantigen did so. In CIS, ABH antigen was deleted in 82 percent using ABC method. ABC method is more sensitive and more specific than SRCA, and the sensitivity was increased in blood O. T antigen, which is expressed in many carcinomas, (defined T(+) by Coon) is usually not detected in normal epithelium. Normally, T antigen is cryptic but can be unmasked with sialidase (cryptic T(+)). The cells which lacked T even after sialidase treatment are called cryptic T(-). We investigated T antigen expression in CIS lesion and ureteropelvic tumor by using T specific lectin (peanut agglutinin). In nine cases of CIS which ABH was negative, cryptic T(+), T(+) and cryptic T(-) were found in three, one and five cases, respectively. In ten cases of high grade ureteropelvic tumor, which ABH was all negative, cryptic T(+) was found in five cases. Of these five cases, three are well over five years after surgery. These data, although preliminary, indicate that, by combining two markers (ABH and T antigen), prognosis of urothelial tumor may be predicted better.
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PMID:[The study of ABH isoantigen and T (Thomsen-Friedenreich) antigen of superficial urothelial tumor]. 653 Feb 8