Highly sialylated mucin-type glycopeptide from porcine intestinal mucosa after heparin extraction: O-glycan profiling and immunological activity evaluation
- 4 September 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Glycoconjugate Journal
- Vol. 38 (5), 527-537
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10719-021-10014-y
Abstract
Mucins are the major proteins that distributed on the intestinal mucosa layer and protect the intestine from pathogens infection. The composition of intestinal mucin O-glycans can affect the health of the gastrointestinal tract in pigs. Porcine intestinal mucosa is widely used as the main raw material of heparin extraction. The heparin extraction residues rich in mucins were usually wasted. The structure of mucin derived O-glycans in porcine intestinal mucosa are currently unknown. In this study, we isolated the mucins from the heparin extraction residues and profiled the O-glycans. After heparin extraction, mucin was digested with trypsin, and separated by strong anion exchange chromatography. The mucin derived O-glycans were release by alkaline β elimination, and analyzed by ultra high performance liquid chromatography-porous graphitized carbon-Fourier transform mass spectrometry (UPLC-PGC-FTMS/MS). Thirty five kinds of O-glycans were identified, most of which were Core 3-derived glycans. In particular, the O-glycans containing sialic acid Neu5Ac accounted for 71.93% of the total O-glycans, which were different from that of other species, including mouse intestine, fish intestine, and porcine colon. The high content sialylated mucin may explain its effect in biological processes. Furthermore, the immunological activity results indicated that the porcine intestinal mucin could promote phagocytosis and proliferation without any cytotoxic effects, which may aid in the development of immunomodulators.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (31971210, 81991522)
- the National Science and Technology Major Project for Significant New Drug Development (2018ZX09735004)
- Taishan Schalor Climbing Project (TSPD20210304)
- Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (2018SDKJ0401, 2018SDKJ0404)
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