We measured the activities of a-I ,3-mannosyl-glycoprotein ~-l,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase, a-1,6-mannosyl-glycoprotein p-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase, ~-3,4-mannosyl-glycoprotein p-1,2-xylosyltransferase and glycoprotein 3-a-~-fucosyltransferase in the Golgi fraction of suspension-cultured cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) using fluorescence-labelled oligosaccharides as acceptor substrates for these transferase reactions. The structures of the pyridylaminated oligosaccharides produced by these reactions were analyzed by two-dimensional sugar mapping using high-performance liquid chromatography. We demonstrated that The biosynthesis of oligosaccharides in animal cells has been well characterized [l]. This pathway starts from the transfer of Glc3Man9GlcNAc, to nascent polypeptide chains in the endoplasmic reticulum. The processing of Glc3Man9GlcNAcz begins with the removal of three glucose and four mannose residues by sequential reactions of a-glucosidases and aCorrespondence to N . Takahashi, Nagoya City University, College of Nursing, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Japan 467.Abbreviations. GlcNAc transferase I, a-I ,3-mannosyl-glycoprotcin ~-1,2-N-acetyIglucosaminyltransferase; GlcNAc transferase 11, a-1,6-mannosyl-glycoprotein ~-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase; xylosyl transferase, ~-1,4-mannosyl-glycoprotein B-1,2-xylosyltransferase; fucosyl transferase, glycoprotein 3-a-~-fucosyltransferase; Fuc, fucose; UDP-Xyl, uridine(5')diphospho(l)-/?-xylose; GDP-Fuc, guanosine(5')diphospho-a-L-fucose.Enzymes. a-l,3-Mannosyl-glycoprotein ~-1,2-N-acetylglucosami- mannosidases. The product of these reactions, Man5-GlcNAc,, is the precursor of all N-acetyllactosamine-type oligosaccharides [2]. It is the substrate of GlcNAc transferase I which produces the first N-acetyllactosamine-type intermediate, GlcNAcMan,GlcNAcz. Various N-acetyllactosamine-type oligosaccharides found in animal glycoproteins are produced from GlcNAcMan5GlcNAcz after further modification by a-mannosidase 11, GlcNAc transferase, fucosyl transferase, galactosyl transferase and sialyl transferase. The structures of many oligosaccharides in plant glycoproteins have been elucidated during the last decade [3 -141. These works have revealed that xylose-containing oligosaccharides are widely distributed throughout the plant kingdom, although, xylose-containing N-linked oligosaccharides were also found in glycoproteins from gastropods [15, 161 and Chlorophyceae [17]. The biosynthesis of the oligosaccharide chains in plant glycoproteins has been recently investigatedThe biosynthesis of N-linked oligosaccharide in rice xamylase containing GlcNAc,Man3XylGlcNAcz has been par-