Maurya, A.K.; Ahmed, H.A.; DeWitt, A.; Shami, A.A.; Misra, S.K.; Pomin, V.H. Structure and Binding Properties to Blood Co-Factors of the Least Sulfated Galactan Found in the Cell Wall of the Red Alga Botryocladia occidentalis. Mar. Drugs2024, 22, 81.
Maurya, A.K.; Ahmed, H.A.; DeWitt, A.; Shami, A.A.; Misra, S.K.; Pomin, V.H. Structure and Binding Properties to Blood Co-Factors of the Least Sulfated Galactan Found in the Cell Wall of the Red Alga Botryocladia occidentalis. Mar. Drugs 2024, 22, 81.
Maurya, A.K.; Ahmed, H.A.; DeWitt, A.; Shami, A.A.; Misra, S.K.; Pomin, V.H. Structure and Binding Properties to Blood Co-Factors of the Least Sulfated Galactan Found in the Cell Wall of the Red Alga Botryocladia occidentalis. Mar. Drugs2024, 22, 81.
Maurya, A.K.; Ahmed, H.A.; DeWitt, A.; Shami, A.A.; Misra, S.K.; Pomin, V.H. Structure and Binding Properties to Blood Co-Factors of the Least Sulfated Galactan Found in the Cell Wall of the Red Alga Botryocladia occidentalis. Mar. Drugs 2024, 22, 81.
Abstract
Three different populations of sulfated polysaccharides can be found in the cell wall of the red alga Botryocladia occidentalis. In a previous work, the structures of the two more sulfated polysaccharides were revised. In this work, NMR-based structural analysis was performed on the least sulfated polysaccharide and its chemically modified derivatives. Results have revealed the presence of both 4-linked α- and 3-linked β-galactose units having the following chemical features: more than half of the total galactose units are not sulfated, the α-units occur primarily as 3,6-anhydro-galactose units either 2-O-methylated or 2-O-sulfated, and the β-galactose units can be 4-O-sulfated or 2,4-O-disulfated. SPR-based results indicated weaker binding of the least sulfated galactan to thrombin, factor Xa, and antithrombin, but stronger binding to heparin cofactor II than unfractionated heparin. This report together with our previous publication completes the structural characterization of the three polysaccharides found in the cell wall of the red alga B. occidentalis and correlates the impact of their composing chemical groups with the levels of interaction with the blood co-factors.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Medicine and Pharmacology
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