[Study of mucins of two sinus mucoceles (author's transl)]

Glycoproteins were isolated in the contents of two sinus mucoceles by ionic exchange and gel filtration chromatography. These glycoproteins are of the mucin-type and characterized by their richness in carbohydrate, a low amino acid content with a strong proportion of hydroxy amino acids. However, they differ largely by their peptide axis, the length of the carbohydrate chain and their acidity, which is in relation with the presence of sialic acid residue and of sulfate groups. The least acidic mucins are the richest in sialic acid residue and in threonine but have the shortest carbohydrate chains while the most acidic are rich in sulfate, richer in serine and have longer carbohydrate chains. The wall of these two mucoceles has only one type of cell capable of synthetizing the glycoproteins: the epithelium goblet cells revealed by the PAS and the alcian blue at different pH. Glandular formations have never been found in the chorion.