期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1980
卷号:77
期号:11
页码:6822-6826
DOI:10.1073/pnas.77.11.6822
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Skin fibroblasts from two patients who had symptoms of the Sanfilippo syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis III) accumulated excessive amounts of heparan sulfate and were unable to release sulfate from N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfate linkages in heparan sulfate-derived oligosaccharides. Keratan sulfate-derived oligosaccharides bearing the same residue at the nonreducing end and p-nitrophenyl-6-sulfo-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranoside were degraded normally. Kinetic differences between th sulfatase activities of normal fibroblasts were found. These observations suggest that N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase activities degrading heparan sulfate and keratan sulfate, respectively, can be distinguished. It is the activity directed toward heparan sulfate that is deficient in these patients; we propose that this deficiency causes Sanfilippo disease type D.