{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Mulloy B"],"funding":["China Scholarship Council","The Francis Crick Institute","Medical Research Council","Wellcome Trust"],"pagination":["6648-52"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4948919"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["88(13)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Heparan sulfate (HS) polysaccharides are ubiquitous in animal tissues as components of proteoglycans, and they participate in many important biological processes. HS carbohydrate chains are complex and can contain rare structural components such as N-unsubstituted glucosamine (GlcN). Commercially available HS preparations have been invaluable in many types of research activities. In the course of preparing microarrays to include probes derived from HS oligosaccharides, we found an unusually high content of GlcN residue in a recently purchased batch of porcine intestinal mucosal HS. Composition and sequence analysis by mass spectrometry of the oligosaccharides obtained after heparin lyase III digestion of the polysaccharide indicated two and three GlcN in the tetrasaccharide and hexasacchar"],"journal":["Analytical chemistry"],"pubmed_title":["Abnormally High Content of Free Glucosamine Residues Identified in a Preparation of Commercially Available Porcine Intestinal Heparan Sulfate."],"pmcid":["PMC4948919"],"funding_grant_id":["10029","MC_U117533887","WT108430"],"pubmed_authors":["Mulloy B","Zhang F","Linhardt RJ","Feizi T","Wu N","Gyapon-Quast F","Pickering MC","Lin L","Chai W"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Abnormally High Content of Free Glucosamine Residues Identified in a Preparation of Commercially Available Porcine Intestinal Heparan Sulfate.","description":"Heparan sulfate (HS) polysaccharides are ubiquitous in animal tissues as components of proteoglycans, and they participate in many important biological processes. HS carbohydrate chains are complex and can contain rare structural components such as N-unsubstituted glucosamine (GlcN). Commercially available HS preparations have been invaluable in many types of research activities. In the course of preparing microarrays to include probes derived from HS oligosaccharides, we found an unusually high content of GlcN residue in a recently purchased batch of porcine intestinal mucosal HS. Composition and sequence analysis by mass spectrometry of the oligosaccharides obtained after heparin lyase III digestion of the polysaccharide indicated two and three GlcN in the tetrasaccharide and hexasacchar","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Jul","modification":"2025-04-04T10:36:17.617Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:18:37Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4948919","cross_references":{"pubmed":["27295282"],"doi":["10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01662"]}}