Mass spectrometric evidence for the enzymatic mechanism of the depolymerization of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans by heparinase II

AUTOR(ES)

Rhomberg, Andrew J.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Heparin-like glycosaminoglycans, acidic complex polysaccharides present on cell surfaces and in the extracellular matrix, regulate important physiological processes such as anticoagulation and angiogenesis. Heparin-like glycosaminoglycan degrading enzymes or heparinases are powerful tools that have enabled the elucidation of important biological properties of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans in vitro and in vivo. With an overall goal of developing an approach to sequence heparin-like glycosaminoglycans using the heparinases, we recently have elaborated a mass spectrometry methodology to elucidate the mechanism of depolymerization of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans by heparinase I. In this study, we investigate the mechanism of depolymerization of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans by heparinase II, which possesses the broadest known substrate specificity of the heparinases. We show here that heparinase II cleaves heparin-like glycosaminoglycans endolytically in a nonrandom manner. In addition, we show that heparinase II has two distinct active sites and provide evidence that one of the active sites is heparinase I-like, cleaving at hexosamine–sulfated iduronate linkages, whereas the other is presumably heparinase III-like, cleaving at hexosamine–glucuronate linkages. Elucidation of the mechanism of depolymerization of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans by the heparinases and mutant heparinases could pave the way to the development of much needed methods to sequence heparin-like glycosaminoglycans.

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