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Bozzaro S, Buracco S, Peracino B. Iron metabolism and resistance to infection by invasive bacteria in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2013; 3:50. [PMID: 24066281 PMCID: PMC3777012 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Dictyostelium cells are forest soil amoebae, which feed on bacteria and proliferate as solitary cells until bacteria are consumed. Starvation triggers a change in life style, forcing cells to gather into aggregates to form multicellular organisms capable of cell differentiation and morphogenesis. As a soil amoeba and a phagocyte that grazes on bacteria as the obligate source of food, Dictyostelium could be a natural host of pathogenic bacteria. Indeed, many pathogens that occasionally infect humans are hosted for most of their time in protozoa or free-living amoebae, where evolution of their virulence traits occurs. Due to these features and its amenability to genetic manipulation, Dictyostelium has become a valuable model organism for studying strategies of both the host to resist infection and the pathogen to escape the defense mechanisms. Similarly to higher eukaryotes, iron homeostasis is crucial for Dictyostelium resistance to invasive bacteria. Iron is essential for Dictyostelium, as both iron deficiency or overload inhibit cell growth. The Dictyostelium genome shares with mammals many genes regulating iron homeostasis. Iron transporters of the Nramp (Slc11A) family are represented with two genes, encoding Nramp1 and Nramp2. Like the mammalian ortholog, Nramp1 is recruited to phagosomes and macropinosomes, whereas Nramp2 is a membrane protein of the contractile vacuole network, which regulates osmolarity. Nramp1 and Nramp2 localization in distinct compartments suggests that both proteins synergistically regulate iron homeostasis. Rather than by absorption via membrane transporters, iron is likely gained by degradation of ingested bacteria and efflux via Nramp1 from phagosomes to the cytosol. Nramp gene disruption increases Dictyostelium sensitivity to infection, enhancing intracellular growth of Legionella or Mycobacteria. Generation of mutants in other "iron genes" will help identify genes essential for iron homeostasis and resistance to pathogens.
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- Salvatore Bozzaro
- Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino, Orbassano, Italy.
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Trinchera M, Malagolini N, Chiricolo M, Santini D, Minni F, Caretti A, Dall'olio F. The biosynthesis of the selectin-ligand sialyl Lewis x in colorectal cancer tissues is regulated by fucosyltransferase VI and can be inhibited by an RNA interference-based approach. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2010; 43:130-9. [PMID: 20965272 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2010.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2010] [Revised: 10/08/2010] [Accepted: 10/11/2010] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Sialyl Lewis x (sLex) is a selectin ligand whose overexpression in epithelial cancers mediates metastasis formation. The molecular basis of sLex biosynthesis in colon cancer tissues is still unclear. The prerequisite for therapeutic approaches aimed at sLex down-regulation in cancer, is the identification of rate-limiting steps in its biosynthesis. We have studied the role of α1,3-fucosyltransferases (Fuc-Ts) potentially involved in sLex biosynthesis in specimens of normal and cancer colon as well as in experimental systems. We found that: (i) in colon cancer, but not in normal mucosa where the antigen was poorly expressed, sLex correlated with a Fuc-T which, like Fuc-TVI, was active on 3'sialyllactosamine at a low concentration (Fuc-T(SLN)); (ii) competitive RT-PCR analysis revealed that the level of Fuc-T mRNA expression in both normal and cancer colon was Fuc-TVI>Fuc-TIII>Fuc-TIV; Fuc-TV and Fuc-TVII expression was negligible; (iii) sLex was expressed only by the gastrointestinal cell lines displaying both Fuc-TVI mRNA and Fuc-T(SLN) activity, but not by those expressing only Fuc-TIII mRNA; (iv) transfection with Fuc-TVI cDNA, but not with Fuc-TIII cDNA, induced sLex expression in gastrointestinal cell lines; (v) Fuc-TVI knock-down with specific siRNA induced down-regulation of Fuc-TVI mRNA and Fuc-T(SLN) activity and a dramatic inhibition of sLex expression. These data indicate that in colon cancer tissues Fuc-TVI is a key regulator of sLex biosynthesis which can be the target of RNA-interference-based gene knock-down approaches.
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- Marco Trinchera
- Department of Biomedical Sciences Experimental and Clinical (DSBSC), University of Insubria, Via JH Dunant 5, 21100 Varese, Italy.
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West CM, van der Wel H, Gaucher EA. Complex glycosylation of Skp1 in Dictyostelium: implications for the modification of other eukaryotic cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins. Glycobiology 2002; 12:17R-27R. [PMID: 11886837 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/12.2.17r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Recently, complex O-glycosylation of the cytoplasmic/nuclear protein Skp1 has been characterized in the eukaryotic microorganism Dictyostelium. Skp1's glycosylation is mediated by the sequential action of a prolyl hydroxylase and five conventional sugar nucleotide-dependent glycosyltransferase activities that reside in the cytoplasm rather than the secretory compartment. The Skp1-HyPro GlcNAcTransferase, which adds the first sugar, appears to be related to a lineage of enzymes that originated in the prokaryotic cytoplasm and initiates mucin-type O-linked glycosylation in the lumen of the eukaryotic Golgi apparatus. GlcNAc is extended by a bifunctional glycosyltransferase that mediates the ordered addition of beta1,3-linked Gal and alpha1,2-linked Fuc. The architecture of this enzyme resembles that of certain two-domain prokaryotic glycosyltransferases. The catalytic domains are related to those of a large family of prokaryotic and eukaryotic, cytoplasmic, membrane-bound, inverting glycosyltransferases that modify glycolipids and polysaccharides prior to their translocation across membranes toward the secretory pathway or the cell exterior. The existence of these enzymes in the eukaryotic cytoplasm away from membranes and their ability to modify protein acceptors expose a new set of cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins to potential prolyl hydroxylation and complex O-linked glycosylation.
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- Christopher M West
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, 1600 SW Archer Road, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610-0235, USA
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van Der Wel H, Morris HR, Panico M, Paxton T, North SJ, Dell A, Thomson JM, West CM. A non-Golgi alpha 1,2-fucosyltransferase that modifies Skp1 in the cytoplasm of Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:33952-63. [PMID: 11423539 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m102555200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Skp1 is a subunit of the SCF-E3 ubiquitin ligase that targets cell cycle and other regulatory factors for degradation. In Dictyostelium, Skp1 is modified by a pentasaccharide containing the type 1 blood group H trisaccharide at its core. To address how the third sugar, fucose alpha1,2-linked to galactose, is attached, a proteomics strategy was applied to determine the primary structure of FT85, previously shown to copurify with the GDP-Fuc:Skp1 alpha 1,2-fucosyltransferase. Tryptic-generated peptides of FT85 were sequenced de novo using Q-TOF tandem mass spectrometry. Degenerate primers were used to amplify FT85 genomic DNA, which was further extended by a novel linker polymerase chain reaction method to yield an intronless open reading frame of 768 amino acids. Disruption of the FT85 gene by homologous recombination resulted in viable cells, which had altered light scattering properties as revealed by flow cytometry. FT85 was necessary and sufficient for Skp1 fucosylation, based on biochemical analysis of FT85 mutant cells and Escherichia coli that express FT85 recombinantly. FT85 lacks sequence motifs that characterize all other known alpha 1,2-fucosyltransferases and lacks the signal-anchor sequence that targets them to the secretory pathway. The C-terminal region of FT85 harbors motifs found in inverting Family 2 glycosyltransferase domains, and its expression in FT85 mutant cells restores fucosyltransferase activity toward a simple disaccharide substrate. Whereas most prokaryote and eukaryote Family 2 glycosyltransferases are membrane-bound and oriented toward the cytoplasm where they glycosylate lipid-linked or polysaccharide precursors prior to membrane translocation, the soluble, eukaryotic Skp1-fucosyltransferase modifies a protein that resides in the cytoplasm and nucleus.
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- H van Der Wel
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610-0235 and the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College, London SW7 2AY United Kingdom
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Salvini R, Bardoni A, Valli M, Trinchera M. beta 1,3-Galactosyltransferase beta 3Gal-T5 acts on the GlcNAcbeta 1-->3Galbeta 1-->4GlcNAcbeta 1-->R sugar chains of carcinoembryonic antigen and other N-linked glycoproteins and is down-regulated in colon adenocarcinomas. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:3564-73. [PMID: 11058588 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006662200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We attempted to determine whether beta1,3-galactosyltransferase beta3Gal-T5 is involved in the biosynthesis of a specific subset of type 1 chain carbohydrates and expressed in a cancer-associated manner. We transfected Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells expressing Fuc-TIII with beta3Gal-T cDNAs and studied the relevant glycoconjugates formed. beta3Gal-T5 directs synthesis of Lewis type 1 antigens in CHO cells more efficiently than beta3Gal-T1, whereas beta3Gal-T2, -T3, and -T4 are almost unable to direct synthesis. In the clone expressing Fuc-TIII and beta3Gal-T5 (CHO-FT-T5), sialyl-Lewis a synthesis is strongly inhibited by swainsonine but not by benzyl-alpha-GalNAc, and sialyl-Lewis x is absent, although it is detected in the clones expressing Fuc-TIII and beta3Gal-T1 (CHO-FT-T1) or Fuc-TIII and beta3Gal-T2 (CHO-FT-T2). Endo-beta-galactosidase treatment of N- glycans prepared from clone CHO-FT-T5 releases (+/-NeuAcalpha2-->3)Galbeta1-->3[Fucalpha1-->4]GlcNAcbeta1-->3Gal but not GlcNAcbeta1-->3Gal or type 2 chain oligosaccharides, which are found in CHO-FT-T1 cells. This result indicates that beta3Gal-T5 expression prevents poly-N-acetyllactosamine and sialyl-Lewis x synthesis on N-glycans. Kinetic studies confirm that beta3Gal-T5 prefers acceptors having the GlcNAcbeta1-->3Gal end, including lactotriosylceramide. Competitive reverse transcriptase mediated-polymerase chain reaction shows that the beta3Gal-T5 transcript is expressed in normal colon mucosa but not or poorly in adenocarcinomas. Moreover, recombinant carcinoembryonic antigen purified from a CHO clone expressing Fuc-TIII and beta3Gal-T5 reacts with anti-sialyl-Lewis a and carries type 1 chains on oligosaccharides released by endo-beta-galactosidase. We conclude that beta3Gal-T5 down-regulation plays a relevant role in determining the cancer-associated glycosylation pattern of N-glycans.
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- R Salvini
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, via Taramelli 3B, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Staudacher E, Altmann F, Wilson IB, März L. Fucose in N-glycans: from plant to man. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1473:216-36. [PMID: 10580141 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(99)00181-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fucosylated oligosaccharides occur throughout nature and many of them play a variety of roles in biology, especially in a number of recognition processes. As reviewed here, much of the recent emphasis in the study of the oligosaccharides in mammals has been on their potential medical importance, particularly in inflammation and cancer. Indeed, changes in fucosylation patterns due to different levels of expression of various fucosyltransferases can be used for diagnoses of some diseases and monitoring the success of therapies. In contrast, there are generally at present only limited data on fucosylation in non-mammalian organisms. Here, the state of current knowledge on the fucosylation abilities of plants, insects, snails, lower eukaryotes and prokaryotes will be summarised.
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- E Staudacher
- Institut für Chemie, Universität für Bodenkultur, Muthgasse 18, A-1190, Vienna, Austria.
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Valli M, Bardoni A, Trinchera M. Mouse C127 cells transfected with fucosyltransferase fuc-TIII express masked Lewisx but not Lewisx antigen. Glycobiology 1999; 9:83-91. [PMID: 9884410 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/9.1.83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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To study human alpha1,3/1,4fucosyltransferase (Fuc-TIII) as an alpha1,3 fucosyltransferase, we constructed two cell clones, C127-FT and C127-T-FT, by transfecting cDNA in parental (C127) or Polyoma T antigen expressing (C127-T) mouse cells, respectively. Both C127-FT and C127-T-FT clones express high levels of a fucosyltransferase activity kinetically similar to Fuc-TIII and an RNA that is amplified by a Fuc-TIII-specific oligonucleotide primer pair after reverse transcription. Clone C127-FT is Lewisxpositive, by flow cytometry, only after alpha-galactosidase or sialidase treatment, and releases [3H]Fuc N-glycans which efficiently bind to immobilized Griffonia simplicifolia I and Sambucus nigra lectins. Immunoblotting confirms that C127-FT glycoproteins acquire Lewisxreactivity only after specific deglycosylation, and shows that a small subset of Griffonia simplicifolia I isolectin B4reactive glycoproteins bears masked Lewisx, suggesting fine substrate recognition by Fuc-TIII. Moreover, transient transfection of H type alpha1, 2fucosyltransferase in clone C127-T-FT directs synthesis of Lewisyantigen, as detected by flow cytometry. Results indicate that Fuc-TIII expressed in C127 cells synthesizes masked Lewisxantigen while Lewisxantigen is not detectable.
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- M Valli
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, via Taramelli 3B, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Teng-umnuay P, Morris HR, Dell A, Panico M, Paxton T, West CM. The cytoplasmic F-box binding protein SKP1 contains a novel pentasaccharide linked to hydroxyproline in Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:18242-9. [PMID: 9660787 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.29.18242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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SKP1 is involved in the ubiquitination of certain cell cycle and nutritional regulatory proteins for rapid turnover. SKP1 from Dictyostelium has been known to be modified by an oligosaccharide containing Fuc and Gal, which is unusual for a cytoplasmic or nuclear protein. To establish how it is glycosylated, SKP1 labeled with [3H]Fuc was purified to homogeneity and digested with endo-Lys-C. A single radioactive peptide was found after two-dimensional high performance liquid chromatography. Analysis in a quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer revealed a predominant ion with a novel mass. Tandem mass spectrometry analysis yielded a set of daughter ions which identified the peptide and showed that it was modified at Pro-143. A second series of daughter ions showed that Pro-143 was hydroxylated and derivatized with a potentially linear pentasaccharide, Hex-->Hex-->Fuc-->Hex-->HexNAc-->(HyPro). The attachment site was confirmed by Edman degradation. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of trimethylsilyl-derivatives of overexpressed SKP1 after methanolysis showed the HexNAc to be GlcNAc. Exoglycosidase digestions of the glycopeptide from normal SKP1 and from a fucosylation mutant, followed by matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis, showed that the sugar chain consisted of D-Galpalpha1-->6-D-Galpalpha1-->L-Fucpalpha1-->2-D- Galpbeta1--> 3GlcNAc. Matrix-assisted laser-desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis of all SKP1 peptides resolved by reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatography showed that SKP1 was only partially hydroxylated at Pro-143 and that all hydroxylated SKP1 was completely glycosylated. Thus SKP1 is variably modified by an unusual linear pentasaccharide, suggesting the localization of a novel glycosylation pathway in the cytoplasm.
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- P Teng-umnuay
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610-0235, USA
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West CM, Kozarov E, Teng-umnuay P. The cytosolic glycoprotein FP21 of Dictyostelium discoideum is encoded by two genes resulting in a polymorphism at a single amino acid position. Gene X 1997; 200:1-10. [PMID: 9373134 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00194-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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FP21 is a glycoprotein within the cytosolic compartment of Dictyostelium which carries an unusual carbohydrate modification(s) including the sugars fucose, galactose and N-acetylglucosamine. The soluble pool of FP21 from crude extracts resolves chromatographically into two fractions that differ in their glycosylation. Previous gene-mapping studies indicating the existence of two loci suggested that the FP21 fractions might be encoded by different genes. To address this issue, the two genes were cloned and sequenced, leading to the prediction that the protein products would differ by only a single amino acid, Ser or Ala, at codon 39. Protein sequence data on CNBr fragments of purified FP21 showed that both gene products are found in both fractions of the soluble pool. After further purification, the two fractions were no longer chromatographically resolvable, and there was no evidence for charge heterogeneity as determined by 2-D gel electrophoresis of whole cells. Thus, the initial separation of the different soluble subpopulations of this protein appears to be due to distinct molecular complexes, possibly related to differential glycosylation, and is not the result of the genetically-encoded amino acid polymorphism.
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- C M West
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610-0235, USA.
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