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  • Carbohydrate Chemistry
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biochemistry

Background:

  • Fluorescent labelling of carbohydrates is crucial for analyzing complex oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.
  • Understanding labelling efficiency is key to characterizing complex mixtures from hydrolysis.
  • Unexpected phenomena can occur during carbohydrate labelling procedures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the experimental conditions for labelling carbohydrates using 8-aminopyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid.
  • To assess the labelling efficiency of mono- and oligosaccharides found in bacterial endotoxins.
  • To provide foundational data for determining the structures of bacterial endotoxin core and O-chain regions.

Main Methods:

  • Carbohydrate labelling with 8-aminopyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid.
  • Analysis of labelling efficiency using capillary electrophoresis (CE).
  • Detection of labelled carbohydrates via laser-induced fluorescence (LIF).

Main Results:

  • Significant variations in labelling efficiency were observed among different sugar molecules.
  • Amino-sugars demonstrated the lowest reactivity with the fluorescent dye.
  • The study characterized the labelling behaviour of sugars within endotoxin structures.

Conclusions:

  • The differential reactivity of sugars impacts the analysis of complex carbohydrate structures.
  • This method offers a basis for elucidating the structural components of bacterial endotoxins.
  • Further studies can build upon these findings for advanced structural determination.