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Rat brain microsomal gangliosides. Accessibility to a neuraminidase preparation and the possible existence of different pools in relation to their biosynthesis.


ABSTRACT: 1. Treatment of rat brain microsomal membranes with a neuraminidase preparation from Clostridium perfringens resulted in an almost complete conversion of polysialogangliosides into monosialogangliosides. 2. Neuraminidase treatment of the membranes did not increase the incorporation of N-[(3)H]acetylneuraminic acid from CMP-N-[(3)H]acetylneuraminic acid into the gangliosidic fraction, indicating that a monosialoganglioside is an acceptor of N-acetylneuraminic acid in these membranes only if, in addition to having the right chemical structure, it is in a proper position, probably in relation to the endogenous sialyltransferases. 3. These experiments also indicated that no independent turnover of the neuraminidase-labile N-acetylneuraminyl groups of gangliosides occurred in vitro. 4. N-[(3)H]Acetylneuraminic acid from endogenous polysialogangliosides labelled in vitro was released by neuraminidase at a slower rate than N-acetylneuraminic acid from unlabelled gangliosides of the same membranes. From this it was concluded that recently synthesized polysialogangliosides (completed in vitro) are in the membranes in a position less accessible to neuraminidase than are those synthesized earlier which were present in the membranes at the start of the labelling experiment.

SUBMITTER: Maccioni HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1166206 | biostudies-other | 1974 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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