Hexadecylpalmitoyglycerol or ceramide is linked to similar glycophosphoinositol anchor‐like structures in Trypanosoma cruzi

The lipopeptidophosphoglycan from Trypanosoma cruzi is a glycosylated inositol‐phosphoceramide isolated from epimastigotes at the stationary phase of growth (4–5 days). We have now purified two similar glycoinositolphospholipids (glycoinositolphospholipid A and glycoinositolphospholipid B) from epim...

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Autores: De Lederkremer, R.M., Lima, C.E., Ramirez, M.I., Goncalvez, M.F., Colli, W.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1993
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital (UBA-FCEN)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:paperaa:paper_00142956_v218_n3_p929_DeLederkremer
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00142956_v218_n3_p929_DeLederkremer
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ceramide
glycoinositolphospholipid
glycophospoinositol
phospholipase c
unclassified drug
article
epimastigote
nonhuman
priority journal
trypanosoma cruzi
Animal
Carbohydrate Sequence
Ceramides
Chromatography, Gas
Glyceryl Ethers
Glycosylation
Glycosylphosphatidylinositols
Lipids
Methylation
Molecular Sequence Data
Palmitates
Polysaccharides
Spectrum Analysis, Mass
Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Trypanosoma cruzi
Bacillus thuringiensis
Trypanosoma
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Sumario:The lipopeptidophosphoglycan from Trypanosoma cruzi is a glycosylated inositol‐phosphoceramide isolated from epimastigotes at the stationary phase of growth (4–5 days). We have now purified two similar glycoinositolphospholipids (glycoinositolphospholipid A and glycoinositolphospholipid B) from epimastigotes after the second day of culture growth. [3H]Palmitic acid was incorporated into 1‐O‐hexadecyl‐2‐O‐palmitoylglycerol in glycoinositolphospholipid A and into ceramide in glycoinositolphospholipid B. The lipids were released by incubation with glycosylphosphatidylinositol‐specific phospholipase C from Bacillus thuringiensis or by chemical methods. After alkaline hydrolysis, the lipids were analysed by GLC/MS. In glycoinositolphospholipid A the resulting lipids corresponded to 1‐O‐hexadecylglycerol and palmitic acid. The ceramide components in glycoinositolphospholipid B are sphinganine, palmitic acid and lignoceric acid. The oligosaccharides could be degraded by nitrous acid and further enzymic treatment showed that the two glycoinositolphospholipids isolated from T. cruzi share the common core structure of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchors. The microheterogeneity was determined, as well as the substitution by galactose, and was mainly in the furanose configuration as was previously described for lipopeptidophosphoglycan. However, methylation analysis indicated that 20% of the galactose is in the pyranose from. Both glycoinositolphospholipids mainly differ in the lipid moiety. Copyright © 1993, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved