A native fucosylated glycosaminoglycan from sea cucumber Holothuria fuscopunctata (nHG), mainly branched with Fuc3S4S, exhibited potent anticoagulant activity by intrinsic tenase iXase (FIXa-FVIIIa complex) and antithrombin-dependent factor IIa (FIIa) inhibition, but also had the effects of FXII activation and platelet aggregation. For screening a selective iXase inhibitor, depolymerized nHG (dHG-1 ∼ –6) and a pure octasaccharide (oHG-8) were prepared. Like nHG, dHG-1 ∼ –6 and oHG-8 could potently inhibit iXase, and competitive binding assay indicated that dHG-5 and oHG-8 could bind to FIXa. Nevertheless, dHG-5 and oHG-8 had no effects on FXII and platelet activation. nHG, dHG-5, and oHG-8 could significantly prolong the activated partial thromboplastin time of human, rat, and rabbit plasma. In the rat deep venous thrombosis model, dHG-5 and oHG-8 showed potent antithrombotic effects in a dose-dependent manner, while the thrombus inhibition rate of nHG at high dose was markedly reduced. Additionally, dHG-5 and oHG-8 did not increase bleeding at the doses up to 10-fold of the effectively antithrombotic doses compared with nHG and low molecular weight heparin in the mice tail-cut model. Considering that dHG-5 possesses strong anti-iXase and antithrombotic activities, and its preparation process is simpler and its yield is higher compared with oHG-8, it might be a promising antithrombotic candidate.
Fucosylated glycosaminoglycan (FG), a structurally complex glycosaminoglycan found up to now exclusively in sea cucumbers, has distinct anticoagulant properties, notably a strong inhibitory activity of intrinsic factor Xase complex (FXase). Knowledge of the FG structures could facilitate the development of a clinically effective intrinsic FXase inhibitor for anticoagulant drugs. Here, a new fucosylated glycosaminoglycan was obtained from the widely traded sea cucumber The precise structure was deduced as {→4)-[l-Fuc3S4S-α-(1→3)-]-d-GlcA-β-(1→3)-d-GalNAc4S6S-β-(1} through analysis of its chemical properties and homogeneous oligosaccharides purified from its β-eliminative depolymerized products. The FG with mostly 3,4-di--sulfated fucoses expands our knowledge on FG structural types. This β-elimination process, producing oligosaccharides with well-defined structures, is a powerful tool for analyzing the structure of complex FGs. Among these oligosaccharides, an octasaccharide displayed potent FXase inhibitory activity. Compared with oligosaccharides with various degrees of polymerization (3 and 3 - 1), our analyses reveal that the purified octasaccharide is the minimum structural unit responsible for the potent selective FXase inhibition, because the d-talitol in the nonsaccharide is unnecessary. The octasaccharide with 2,4-di--sulfated fucoses is more potent than that of one with 3,4-di--sulfated fucoses. Thus, sulfation patterns can play an important role in the inhibition of intrinsic factor Xase complex.
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