Abstract
The neutral sugar components of a corbicula glycolipid, GL-2, were investigated and the presence of 3-O-methylfucose, xylose, mannose and glucose was shown by gas chromatographic analysis. It was found that GL-2 and GL-3 had a high hemagglutination inhibition activity with eel serum.
The author acknowledges the valuable discussion and suggestion of Prof. T. Hori of this laboratory and Prof. T. Yamakawa, the University of Tokyo, during the course of this investigation. The author also wishes to express thanks to Dr. G. F. Springer of Northwestern University for the hemagglutination inhibition test and to Dr. J. Okano of Daiichi Seiyaku Co., Ltd. for the gift of Digitalium serum.
