Glycoprotein Structure/Function Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Abstract:
Porous graphitised carbon (PGC) has been explored for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of mono- and di-saccharides released from proteoglycans and of fluorescently labelled oligosaccharide derivatives for high-sensitivity detection. Sulphated oligosaccharides show good retention and separation behaviour on PGC-HPLC, and compared to anion-exchange or reversed-phase ion-pair chromatography the chromatography is carried out in the absence of salt. Due to their poor retention on PGC-HPLC the analysis of single uronic acids has been optimised with high pH anion-exchange chromatography. Fluorescent labelled derivatives formed by reductive amination of neutral oligosaccharides with 2-aminobenzamide have been chromatographed on PGC-HPLC and by BioGel P4 gel filtration.