Characterization of candidate reference materials for bone lead via interlaboratory study and double isotope dilution mass spectrometry.

Four candidate ground bone reference materials (NYS RMs 05-01 through 04), were produced from lead-dosed bovine and caprine sources, and characterized by interlaboratory study. The consensus value ( X ) and expanded standard uncertainty (U(X) ) were determined from the robust average and standard deviation of the participants' data for each NYS RM 05-01 through 04. The values were 1.

Selective organic precipitation/extraction of released N-glycans following large-scale enzymatic deglycosylation of glycoproteins.

A major difficulty with isolating enzymatically or chemically released oligosaccharides from large-scale glycoprotein deglycosylation reactions is the time-consuming chromatography, desalting, and concentration steps required to prepare a glycan fraction of manageable proportions. To overcome these time and preparative chromatography equipment requirements, we have developed a rapid organic solvent precipitation/extraction procedure that allows sequential isolation of endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H (EC 3.2.

Mannosyltransferase activities in membranes from various yeast strains.

In the yeast Golgi compartments, at least five, and potentially several additional mannosyltransferases are involved in elongating to 'mannan' the core Man8GlcNAc2 oligosaccharide trimmed from Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 in the endoplasmic reticulum. Structural studies on oligosaccharides from alg3 mutant yeast, which lack the four upper arm mannoses donated by Man-P-Dol (where Dol is dolichol), verified that the new alpha 1,6-branch in endo H-resistant mannan in this strain is efficiently initiated in vivo on the alpha 1,3-linked core residue of the lipid-oligosaccharide form of Man5GlcNAc2 (Verostek et al., J.

Glycoprotein biosynthesis in the alg3 Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant. II. Structure of novel Man6-10GlcNAc2 processing intermediates on secreted invertase.

Alg3 yeast mutants synthesize endoglycosidase H-resistant oligosaccharides whose precursor for elongation is Man1 alpha-->2Man1 alpha-->2Man1 alpha-->3(Man1 alpha-->6)Man1 beta-->4GlcNAc2 (Verostek, M.F., Atkinson, P.