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FUT6 deficiency compromises basophil function by selectively abrogating their sialyl-Lewis x expression. Commun Biol 2021; 4:832. [PMID: 34215830 PMCID: PMC8253766 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02295-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Sialyl-Lewis x (sLex, CD15s) is a tetra-saccharide on the surface of leukocytes required for E-selectin-mediated rolling, a prerequisite for leukocytes to migrate out of the blood vessels. Here we show using flow cytometry that sLex expression on basophils and mast cell progenitors depends on fucosyltransferase 6 (FUT6). Using genetic association data analysis and qPCR, the cell type-specific defect was associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the FUT6 gene region (tagged by rs17855739 and rs778798), affecting coding sequence and/or expression level of the mRNA. Heterozygous individuals with one functional FUT6 gene harbor a mixed population of sLex+ and sLex- basophils, a phenomenon caused by random monoallelic expression (RME). Microfluidic assay demonstrated FUT6-deficient basophils rolling on E-selectin is severely impaired. FUT6 null alleles carriers exhibit elevated blood basophil counts and a reduced itch sensitivity against insect bites. FUT6-deficiency thus dampens the basophil-mediated allergic response in the periphery, evident also in lower IgE titers and reduced eosinophil counts. Puan and San Luis et al. find that FUT6, encoding a fucosyltransferase, is required for the “rolling” behavior of certain white blood cells that enables them to move from blood vessels to tissues. They show that FUT6 deficiency leads to a loss of the tetrasaccharide sLex on the surface of basophils, resulting in cells that are less sticky and therefore less able to form the necessary adhesions for exiting the blood vessel to drive the allergic reaction.
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Loss of core fucosylation in both ST6GAL1 and its substrate enhances glycoprotein sialylation in mice. Biochem J 2020; 477:1179-1201. [DOI: 10.1042/bcj20190789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Revised: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Fucosyltransferase 8 (FUT8) and β-galactoside α-2,6-sialyltransferase 1 (ST6GAL1) are glycosyltransferases that catalyze α1,6-fucosylation and α2,6-sialylation, respectively, in the mammalian N-glycosylation pathway. They are aberrantly expressed in various human diseases. FUT8 is non-glycosylated but is responsible for the fucosylation of ST6GAL1. However, the mechanism for the interaction between these two enzymes is unknown. In this study, we show that serum levels of α2,6-sialylated N-glycans are increased in Fut8−/− mice, whereas the mRNA and protein levels of ST6GAL1 are unchanged in mouse live tissues. The level of α2,6-sialylation on IgG was also enhanced in Fut8−/− mice along with ST6GAL1 catalytic activity increase in both serum and liver. Moreover, it was observed that ST6GAL1 prefers non-fucosylated substrates. Interestingly, increased core fucosylation accompanied by a reduction in α2,6-sialylation, was detected in rheumatoid arthritis patient serum. These findings provide new insight into the interactions between FUT8 and ST6GAL1.
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Tri-antennary tri-sialylated mono-fucosylated glycan of alpha-1 antitrypsin as a non-invasive biomarker for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: a novel glycobiomarker for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Sci Rep 2020; 10:321. [PMID: 31941930 PMCID: PMC6962197 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56947-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a progressive form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that may lead to liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. Here, we examined the diagnostic utility of tri-antennary tri-sialylated mono-fucosylated glycan of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT-A3F), a non-invasive glycobiomarker identified in a previous study of NASH diagnosis. This study included 131 biopsy-proven Japanese patients with NAFLD. We evaluated the utility of AAT-A3F in NASH diagnosis, and conducted genetic analysis to analyse the mechanism of AAT-A3F elevation in NASH. Serum AAT-A3F concentrations were significantly higher in NASH patients than in NAFL patients, and in patients with fibrosis, lobular inflammation, and ballooning. Hepatic FUT6 gene expression was significantly higher in NASH than in NAFL. IL-6 expression levels were significantly higher in NASH than in NAFL and showed a positive correlation with FUT6 expression levels. The serum-AAT-A3F levels strongly correlated with hepatic FUT6 expression levels. AAT-A3F levels increased with fibrosis, pathological inflammation, and ballooning in patients with NAFLD and may be useful for non-invasive diagnosis of NASH from the early stages of fibrosis.
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Ceciliani F, Lecchi C. The Immune Functions of α 1 Acid Glycoprotein. Curr Protein Pept Sci 2019; 20:505-524. [PMID: 30950347 DOI: 10.2174/1389203720666190405101138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2018] [Revised: 11/20/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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α1-acid glycoprotein (orosomucoid, AGP) is an Acute Phase Protein produced by liver and peripheral tissues in response to systemic reaction to inflammation. AGP functions have been studied mostly in human, cattle and fish, although the protein has been also found in many mammalian species and birds. AGP fulfils at least two set of functions, which are apparently different from each other but in fact intimately linked. On one hand, AGP is an immunomodulatory protein. On the other hand, AGP is one of the most important binding proteins in plasma and, beside modulating pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of many drugs, it is also able to bind and transport several endogen ligands related to inflammation. The focus of this review is the immunomodulatory activity of AGP. This protein regulates every single event related to inflammation, including binding of pathogens and modulating white blood cells activity throughout the entire leukocyte attacking sequence. The regulation of AGP activity is complex: the inflammation induces not only an increase in AGP serum concentration, but also a qualitative change in its carbohydrate moiety, generating a multitude of glycoforms, each of them with different, and sometimes opposite and contradictory, activities. We also present the most recent findings about the relationship between AGP and adipose tissue: AGP interacts with leptin receptor and, given its immunomodulatory function, it may be included among the potential players in the field of immunometabolism.
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- Fabrizio Ceciliani
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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Kobayashi T, Ogawa K, Furukawa JI, Hanamatsu H, Hato M, Yoshinaga T, Morikawa K, Suda G, Sho T, Nakai M, Higashino K, Numata Y, Shinohara Y, Sakamoto N. Quantifying Protein-Specific N-Glycome Profiles by Focused Protein and Immunoprecipitation Glycomics. J Proteome Res 2019; 18:3133-3141. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Takashi Kobayashi
- Shionogi Innovation Center for Drug Discovery, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Medical and Functional Glycomics, Graduate School of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Shionogi Innovation Center for Drug Discovery, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Japan
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- Shionogi Innovation Center for Drug Discovery, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Shionogi Innovation Center for Drug Discovery, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Japan
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- Shionogi Innovation Center for Drug Discovery, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Medical and Functional Glycomics, Graduate School of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Yazawa S, Takahashi R, Yokobori T, Sano R, Mogi A, Saniabadi AR, Kuwano H, Asao T. Fucosylated Glycans in α1-Acid Glycoprotein for Monitoring Treatment Outcomes and Prognosis of Cancer Patients. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0156277. [PMID: 27295180 PMCID: PMC4905682 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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One standard treatment option for advanced-stage cancer is surgical resection of malignant tumors following by adjuvant chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy. Additionally, neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be applied if required. During the time course of treatments, patients are generally followed by computed tomography (CT) surveillance, and by tumor marker diagnosis. However, currently, early evidence of recurrence and/or metastasis of tumors with a clinically relevant biomarker remains a major therapeutic challenge. In particular, there has been no validated biomarker for predicting treatment outcomes in therapeutic settings. Recently, we have looked at glycoforms of serum α1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) by using a crossed affinoimmunoelectrophoresis with two lectins and an anti-AGP antibody. The primary glycan structures of AGP were also analyzed by a mass spectrometer and a novel software in a large number of patients with various cancers. Accordingly, the relative abundance of α1,3fucosylated glycans in AGP (FUCAGP) was found to be significantly high in cancer patients as compared with the healthy controls. Further, strikingly elevated levels of FUCAGP were found in patients with poor prognosis but not in patients with good prognosis. In the current study, levels of FUCAGP in serum samples from various cancer patients were analyzed and 17 patients including 13 who had undergone chemotherapy were followed for several years post operation. FUCAGP level determined diligently by using a mass spectrometer was found to change along with disease prognosis as well as with responses to treatments, in particular, to various chemotherapies. Therefore, FUCAGP levels measured during following-up of the patients after operation appeared to be clinically relevant biomarker of treatment intervention.
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- Shin Yazawa
- Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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- Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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- Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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- Department of Oncology Clinical Development, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
- Big Data Center for Integrative Analysis, Gunma University Initiative for Advance Research, Maebashi, Japan
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Gao X, Zhu M, Fan H, Yang W, Ni W, Karnati VVR, Gao S, Carson J, Weston B, Wang B. A fluorescent bisboronic acid compound that selectively labels cells expressing oligosaccharide Lewis X. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2015; 25:2501-4. [PMID: 25956415 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.04.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2015] [Revised: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 04/20/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Two fluorescent diboronic acid compounds (6a and 6b) with a dipeptide linker were synthesized as potential sensors for cell surface saccharide Lewis X (Le(X)). Compound 6a with a dipeptide (H-Asp-Ala-) as the linker was found to selectively label CHOFUT4 cells, which express Le(x), at micromolar concentrations, while non-Le(x)-expressing control cells were not labeled.
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- Xingming Gao
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7220, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7220, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7220, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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In vivo clearance of alpha-1 acid glycoprotein is influenced by the extent of its N-linked glycosylation and by its interaction with the vessel wall. J Biomed Biotechnol 2012; 2012:292730. [PMID: 22545002 PMCID: PMC3321579 DOI: 10.1155/2012/292730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2011] [Accepted: 01/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Alpha-1 acid glycoprotein (AGP) is a highly glycosylated plasma protein that exerts vasoprotective effects. We hypothesized that AGP's N-linked glycans govern its rate of clearance from the circulation, and followed the disappearance of different forms of radiolabeled human AGP from the plasma of rabbits and mice. Enzymatic deglycosylation of human plasma-derived AGP (pdAGP) by Peptide: N-Glycosidase F yielded a mixture of differentially deglycosylated forms (PNGase-AGP), while the introduction of five Asn to Gln mutations in recombinant Pichia pastoris-derived AGP (rAGP-N(5)Q) eliminated N-linked glycosylation. PNGase-AGP was cleared from the rabbit circulation 9-fold, and rAGP-N(5)Q, 46-fold more rapidly than pdAGP, primarily via a renal route. Pichia pastoris-derived wild-type rAGP differed from pdAGP in expressing mannose-terminated glycans, and, like neuraminidase-treated pdAGP, was more rapidly removed from the rabbit circulation than rAGP-N(5)Q. Systemic hyaluronidase treatment of mice transiently decreased pdAGP clearance. AGP administration to mice reduced vascular binding of hyaluronic acid binding protein in the liver microcirculation and increased its plasma levels. Our results support a critical role of N-linked glycosylation of AGP in regulating its in vivo clearance and an influence of a hyaluronidase-sensitive component of the vessel wall on its transendothelial passage.
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Huffman JE, Knežević A, Vitart V, Kattla J, Adamczyk B, Novokmet M, Igl W, Pučić M, Zgaga L, Johannson Å, Redžić I, Gornik O, Zemunik T, Polašek O, Kolčić I, Pehlić M, Koeleman CA, Campbell S, Wild SH, Hastie ND, Campbell H, Gyllensten U, Wuhrer M, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Rudan I, Rudd PM, Wright AF, Lauc G. Polymorphisms in B3GAT1, SLC9A9 and MGAT5 are associated with variation within the human plasma N-glycome of 3533 European adults. Hum Mol Genet 2011; 20:5000-11. [DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Lauc G, Essafi A, Huffman JE, Hayward C, Knežević A, Kattla JJ, Polašek O, Gornik O, Vitart V, Abrahams JL, Pučić M, Novokmet M, Redžić I, Campbell S, Wild SH, Borovečki F, Wang W, Kolčić I, Zgaga L, Gyllensten U, Wilson JF, Wright AF, Hastie ND, Campbell H, Rudd PM, Rudan I. Genomics meets glycomics-the first GWAS study of human N-Glycome identifies HNF1α as a master regulator of plasma protein fucosylation. PLoS Genet 2010; 6:e1001256. [PMID: 21203500 PMCID: PMC3009678 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2010] [Accepted: 11/19/2010] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Over half of all proteins are glycosylated, and alterations in glycosylation have been observed in numerous physiological and pathological processes. Attached glycans significantly affect protein function; but, contrary to polypeptides, they are not directly encoded by genes, and the complex processes that regulate their assembly are poorly understood. A novel approach combining genome-wide association and high-throughput glycomics analysis of 2,705 individuals in three population cohorts showed that common variants in the Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1α (HNF1α) and fucosyltransferase genes FUT6 and FUT8 influence N-glycan levels in human plasma. We show that HNF1α and its downstream target HNF4α regulate the expression of key fucosyltransferase and fucose biosynthesis genes. Moreover, we show that HNF1α is both necessary and sufficient to drive the expression of these genes in hepatic cells. These results reveal a new role for HNF1α as a master transcriptional regulator of multiple stages in the fucosylation process. This mechanism has implications for the regulation of immunity, embryonic development, and protein folding, as well as for our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer, coronary heart disease, and metabolic and inflammatory disorders. By combining recently developed high-throughput glycan analysis with genome-wide association study, we performed the first comprehensive analysis of common genetic polymorphisms that affect protein glycosylation. Over half of all proteins are glycosylated; but, due to difficulties in glycan analysis and the absence of a genetic template for their synthesis, knowledge about the complex processes that regulate glycan assembly is still limited. We demonstrated that HNF1α regulates the expression of key fucosyltransferase and fucose biosynthesis genes and acts as a master regulator of plasma protein fucosylation. Proper protein fucosylation is essential in numerous processes including inflammation, cancer, and coronary heart disease, thus the identification of a master regulator of plasma protein fucosylation has important implications for understanding both normal biological functions and disease processes.
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- Gordan Lauc
- Glycobiology Laboratory, Genos Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Zagreb, Croatia
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- National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Dublin-Oxford Glycobiology Lab, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Gen Info Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
- Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Dublin-Oxford Glycobiology Lab, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Glycobiology Laboratory, Genos Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split Medical School, Split, Croatia
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- Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Dublin-Oxford Glycobiology Lab, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split Medical School, Split, Croatia
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Levander L, Gunnarsson P, Grenegård M, Rydén I, Påhlsson P. Effects of α1-acid Glycoprotein Fucosylation on its Ca2+Mobilizing Capacity in Neutrophils. Scand J Immunol 2009; 69:412-20. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2009.02240.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Arnold JN, Saldova R, Hamid UMA, Rudd PM. Evaluation of the serum N-linked glycome for the diagnosis of cancer and chronic inflammation. Proteomics 2008; 8:3284-93. [PMID: 18646009 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The identification of serum biomarkers has lead to improvements in the detection and diagnosis of cancer, and combinations of these biomarkers have increased further their sensitivity and specificity. Glycosylation is the most common PTM of secreted proteins and the identification of novel serum glyco-biomarkers has become a topic of increasing interest because the glycan processing pathways are frequently disturbed in cancer cells. A future goal is to combine current biomarkers with glyco-biomarkers to yield further improvements. Well characterised N-glycosylation changes in the serum glycome of cancer patients include changes in the levels of tri- and tetra-antennary glycan structures, sialyl Lewis X epitopes and agalactosylated bi-antennary glycans. Several of these glycosylated markers have been linked to chronic inflammatory diseases, promoting questions about the links between inflammation and cancer. In this review, the glycoproteins which display these glycan epitopes, the glycosyl transferases which can generate them, their potential functions and their use as biomarkers are evaluated.
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- James N Arnold
- Department of Biochemistry, Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Higai K, Miyazaki N, Azuma Y, Matsumoto K. Interleukin-1β induces sialyl Lewis X on hepatocellular carcinoma HuH-7 cells via enhanced expression of ST3Gal IV and FUT VI gene. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:6069-75. [PMID: 17054948 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.09.073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2006] [Revised: 09/15/2006] [Accepted: 09/29/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We previously demonstrated that human hepatocellular carcinoma-derived HuH-7 cells stimulated with interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) produce alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (AGP) with increased amounts of sialyl Lewis X (sLeX) antigen, although the mechanism remained obscure. Here, we report our investigation of the mechanism. sLeX expression on HuH-7 cells was induced 2.5 times more after 48 h stimulation with 100 U/mL IL-1 beta compared with control, as indicated by anti-sLeX antibody binding. Furthermore, expression of 2,3-sialylated N-acetyllactosamine increased gradually up to 48 h after IL-1 beta stimulation; this preceded the increase in sLeX expression. Increases in alpha 2,3-sialyltransferase activity also preceded increases in alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase activity. Furthermore, mRNA levels of ST3Gal IV, FUT IV and VI in HuH-7 cells stimulated with IL- 1beta were increased at 2-4 h, while increases in FUT VI mRNA level occurred gradually after 24 h. IL-1 beta-induced sLeX expression on HuH-7 cells was suppressed by transfection of gene-specific small interference RNAs against FUT VI and ST3Gal IV but not against FUT IV and ST3Gal III. These data results that IL-1 beta induces expression of sLeX on HuH-7 cells by enhanced expression of FUT VI and ST3Gal IV gene.
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- Koji Higai
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Miyama 2-2-1, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan.
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Yan J, Fang H, Wang B. Boronolectins and fluorescent boronolectins: an examination of the detailed chemistry issues important for the design. Med Res Rev 2006; 25:490-520. [PMID: 16025498 DOI: 10.1002/med.20038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Glycans in the form of glycoproteins or glycolipids play very critical roles in various biological and pathological processes including inflammation, cancer metastasis, immune reactions, embryo development, cell-cell communications and adhesions, blood generation, etc. Proteins (lectins) that can recognize carbohydrates have played very important roles in studying glycobiology. Small molecule mimics of lectins will be very useful in the development of new therapeutics and diagnostics. Along this line, boronic acids have been widely used in the design and synthesis of small organic compounds that mimic the function of lectins. This review examines in detail the factors that are important for the design of boronic acid-based lectin mimics, boronolectins.
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- Jun Yan
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4089, USA
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Nakagawa T, Uozumi N, Nakano M, Mizuno-Horikawa Y, Okuyama N, Taguchi T, Gu J, Kondo A, Taniguchi N, Miyoshi E. Fucosylation of N-glycans regulates the secretion of hepatic glycoproteins into bile ducts. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:29797-806. [PMID: 16899455 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m605697200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Fucosylated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a highly specific tumor marker for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the molecular mechanism by which serum level of fucosylated AFP increases in patients with HCC remains largely unknown. Here, we report that the fucosylation of glycoproteins could be a possible signal for secretion into bile ducts in the liver. We compared oligosaccharide structures on glycoproteins in human bile with those in serum by several types of lectin blot analyses. Enhanced binding of biliary glycoproteins to lectins that recognize a fucose residue was observed over a wide range of molecular weights compared with serum glycoproteins. A structural analysis of oligosaccharides by two-dimensional mapping high performance liquid chromatography and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of flight mass spectrometry confirmed the increases in the fucosylation of biliary glycoproteins. Purification followed by structural analysis on alpha1-antitrypsin, alpha1-acid glycoprotein and haptoglobin, which are synthesized in the liver, showed higher fucosylation in bile than in serum. To find direct evidence for fucosylation and sorting signal into bile ducts, we used alpha1-6 fucosyltransferase (Fut8)-deficient mice because fucosylation of glycoproteins produced in mouse liver was mainly an alpha1-6 linkage. Interestingly, the levels of alpha1-antitrypsin and alpha1-acid glycoprotein were quite low in bile of Fut8-deficient mice as compared with wild-type mice. An immunohistochemical study showed dramatic changes in the localization of these glycoproteins in the liver of Fut8-deficient mice. Taken together, these results suggest that fucosylation is a possible signal for the secretion of glycoproteins into bile ducts in the liver. A disruption in this system might involve an increase in fucosylated AFP in the serum of patients with HCC.
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- Tsutomu Nakagawa
- Department of Biochemistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Higai K, Aoki Y, Azuma Y, Matsumoto K. Glycosylation of site-specific glycans of alpha1-acid glycoprotein and alterations in acute and chronic inflammation. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2005; 1725:128-35. [PMID: 15863355 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2005.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2005] [Revised: 03/17/2005] [Accepted: 03/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND alpha(1)-Acid glycoprotein (AGP), an acute phase reactant, is extensively glycosylated at five Asn-linked glycosylation sites. In a number of pathophysiological states, including inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer, alterations of Asn-linked glycans (N-glycans) have been reported. We investigated alteration of N-glycans at each of glycosylation sites of AGP in the sera of patients with acute and chronic inflammation. METHODS AGP purified from sera was digested with Glu-C and the liberated glycopeptides were isolated by reverse phase HPLC. N-glycans released with peptide N-glycosidase F and followed by neuraminidase treatment were analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. RESULTS Site-specific differences in branching structures were observed among N-glycosylation sites 1, 3, 4 and 5. Within the sera of patients with acute inflammation, increases in bi-antennary and decreases in tri- and tetra-antennary structures were observed, as well as increases in alpha1,3-fucosylation, at most glycosylation sites. In the sera of patients with chronic inflammation, increased rates of tri-antennary alpha1,3-fucosylation at sites 3 and 4 and tetra-antennary alpha1,3-fucosylation at sites 3, 4 and 5 were detected. Although there were no significant differences between acute and chronic sera in site directed branching structures, significant differences of alpha1,3-fucosylation were detected in tri-antennary at sites 2, 4 and 5 and in tetra-antennary at sites 3 and 4. CONCLUSION Little variation in the N-glycan composition of the glycosylation sites of AGP was observed among healthy individuals, while the sera of patients with acute inflammation demonstrated increased numbers of bi-antennary and alpha1,3-fucosylated N-glycan structures at each glycosylation site.
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- Koji Higai
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan.
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Yang W, Fan H, Gao X, Gao S, Karnati VVR, Ni W, Hooks WB, Carson J, Weston B, Wang B. The First Fluorescent Diboronic Acid Sensor Specific for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Expressing Sialyl Lewis X. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 11:439-48. [PMID: 15123238 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2004.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Carbohydrate antigens with subterminal fucosylation have been implicated in the development and progression of several cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Fluorescent sensors targeting fucosylated carbohydrate antigens could potentially be used for diagnostic and other applications. We have designed and synthesized a series of 26 diboronic acid compounds as potential fluorescent sensors for such carbohydrates. Among these compounds, 7q was able to fluorescently label cells expressing high levels of sLex (HEPG2) within a concentration range of 0.5 to 10 microM. This compound (7q) did not label cells expressing Lewis Y (HEP3B), nor cells without fucosylated antigens (COS7). This represents the first example of a fluorescent compound labeling cells based on cell surface carbohydrate structures.
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- Wenqian Yang
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, 33 Gilmer Street S.E., Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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Hashimoto S, Asao T, Takahashi J, Yagihashi Y, Nishimura T, Saniabadi AR, Poland DCW, van Dijk W, Kuwano H, Kochibe N, Yazawa S. ?1-Acid glycoprotein fucosylation as a marker of carcinoma progression and prognosis. Cancer 2004; 101:2825-36. [PMID: 15536618 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Serum alpha1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), an acute-phase protein secreted by the liver, carries alpha(1,3)-fucosylated structures on its 5 highly branched, N-linked sugar chains. METHODS Serum AGP levels in patients with various types of malignancies (n=214 patients) were measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with anti-AGP antibody. To investigate glycoforms that differed in their degree of branching and extent of fucosylation, serum AGP samples were analyzed by crossed affinoimmunoelectrophoresis (CAIE) with concanavalin A, and Aleuria aurantia lectin (AAL), and anti-AGP antibody. RESULTS A significant difference (P <0.001) in serum AGP levels was observed in preoperative patients compared with levels in the healthy control group, but the levels in individual patients did not reflect their clinical status. Conversely, it was found not only that the patterns of AGP glycoforms differed widely in the patient group compared with the healthy control group, but they also changed depending on each patient's clinical status. Furthermore, AGP glycoforms seemed to be appropriate markers of disease progression and prognosis according to follow-up studies of 45 patients during prolonged preoperative and postoperative periods. CONCLUSIONS Patients with advanced malignancies who had AGP glycoforms that contained highly fucosylated triantennary and tetraantennary sugar chains for long periods after surgery were likely to have a poor prognosis. However, patients who had AGP glycoforms without such changes were expected to have a good prognosis.
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- Shinji Hashimoto
- Department of General Surgical Science (Surgery 1), Gunma University, Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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Cai S, Davis AE. Complement Regulatory Protein C1 Inhibitor Binds to Selectins and Interferes with Endothelial-Leukocyte Adhesion. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 171:4786-91. [PMID: 14568956 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.9.4786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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C1 inhibitor (C1INH), a member of the serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) family, is an inhibitor of proteases in the complement system, the contact system of kinin generation, and the intrinsic coagulation pathway. It is the most heavily glycosylated plasma protein, containing 13 definitively identified glycosylation sites as well as an additional 7 potential glycosylation sites. C1INH consists of two distinct domains: a serpin domain and an amino-terminal domain. The serpin domain retains all the protease-inhibitory function, while the amino-terminal domain bears most of the glycosylation sites. The present studies test the hypothesis that plasma C1INH bears sialyl Lewis(x)-related moieties and therefore binds to selectin adhesion molecules. We demonstrated that plasma C1INH does express sialyl Lewis(x)-related moieties on its N-glycan as detected using mAb HECA-452 and CSLEX1. The data also show that plasma C1INH can bind to P- and E-selectins by FACS and immunoprecipitation experiments. In a tissue culture model of endothelial-leukocyte adhesion, C1INH showed inhibition in a dose-dependent manner. Significant inhibition (>50%) was achieved at a concentration of 250 micro g/ml or higher. This discovery may suggest that C1INH plays a role in the endothelial-leukocyte interaction during inflammation. It may also provide another example of the multifaceted anti-inflammatory effects of C1INH in various animal models and human diseases.
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- Shenghe Cai
- Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Higai K, Azuma Y, Aoki Y, Matsumoto K. Altered glycosylation of alpha1-acid glycoprotein in patients with inflammation and diabetes mellitus. Clin Chim Acta 2003; 329:117-25. [PMID: 12589974 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-8981(02)00427-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND In certain pathophysiological conditions, such as inflammation rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes mellitus (DM), alterations in asparagine-linked glycan (N-glycan) patterns of the acute-phase protein, alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (AGP), have been reported. In this study, we investigated N-glycan structures of AGP purified from the sera of patients with acute inflammation (n=5), type 2 diabetes mellitus (n=5), and healthy individuals (n=5). METHODS N-Glycans were released with peptide N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) from denatured AGP and purified with cellulose cartridge. N-glycans were analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) in combination with exoglycosidase digestion. RESULTS We revealed increases in bi-antennary complex glycans and in alpha1-3 fucosylated bi-, tri-, and tetra-antennary glycans and a decrease in tri-antennary glycans in inflammation patients. These results support increases in bindings to concanavalin A (ConA) and Aleuria aurantia lectins (AALs). In diabetic patients, the pathogenesis-specific change in N-glycan patterns of AGP was not significant. CONCLUSIONS The MALDI-TOFMS method is sensitive and suitable for profiling analysis of N-glycans in clinical samples.
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- Koji Higai
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan.
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Hochepied T, Berger FG, Baumann H, Libert C. Alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein: an acute phase protein with inflammatory and immunomodulating properties. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 2003; 14:25-34. [PMID: 12485617 DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6101(02)00054-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 330] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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alpha(1)-Acid glycoprotein (AGP) is a protein with a molecular weight of 41-43 kDa and is heavily glycosylated (45%). Due to the presence of sialic acids, it is negatively charged (pI=2.7-3.2). AGP is an acute phase protein in all mammals investigated to date. The serum concentration of AGP rises several fold during an acute phase response, the systemic answer to a local inflammatory stimulus. Also, its glycosylation pattern can change depending on the type of inflammation. The biological function of this protein is not clear. A number of activities on different type of blood cells have been described. In vivo, AGP clearly has protective effects in several models of inflammation. Here we review the data supporting an anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating role of AGP.
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- Tino Hochepied
- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, KL Ledeganckstraat 35, Belgium
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Higai K, Shibukawa K, Muto S, Matsumoto K. Targeted proteo-glycomics analysis of Sialyl Lewis X antigen expressing glycoproteins secreted by human hepatoma cell line. ANAL SCI 2003; 19:85-92. [PMID: 12558029 DOI: 10.2116/analsci.19.85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Sialyl Lewis X (SLEX) antigen, Neu5Acalpha2-3Galbeta1-4 (Fucalpha1-3) GlcNAc-R, plays important roles in cell-to-cell interaction: for example, the E- and P-selectin-mediated influx of SLEX expressing leukocytes into inflamed areas. A human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, HepG2 cells, was highly expressed SLEX on secreted glycoproteins and cell surface, in contrast with HuH-7 cells. We identified SLEX expressing glycoproteins in HepG2 cultured medium by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, followed by in gel digestion and peptide mass fingerprint using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS), including transferrin, alpha1-antitrypsin, alpha2-HS glycoprotein and beta-glycoprotein. We analyzed N-glycans of these glycoproteins by MALDI-TOFMS in combination with exoglycosidase digestion; our results indicate increases in poly-fucosylated and high-branched N-glycans. High alpha1,3-fucosylation in glycoproteins would be caused by increased expression of alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase activities in HepG2 cells.
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- Koji Higai
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Miyama 2-2-1, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan.
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Van Dijk W, Poland DCW. Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Specific Glycoforms of Human α1-Acid Glycoprotein. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2003; 535:251-6. [PMID: 14714900 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0065-0_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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- Willem Van Dijk
- Glycoimmunology Group, Department of Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Asao T, Kuwano H, Nakamura J, Okamura A, Berger EG, Matta KL, Yazawa S. Tumor cells as the origin of elevated serum alpha1,3fucosyltransferase in association with malignancy. Clin Exp Metastasis 2002; 18:605-10. [PMID: 11688966 DOI: 10.1023/a:1011967119736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We have previously reported that the elevated activities of serum alpha 1,3fucosyltransferase reverted to normal levels after curative removal of the tumors. To determine the origin of elevated serum alpha 1,3fucosyltransferase, blood samples were obtained from both the drainage vein and the artery in patients with different stages of colorectal cancer at surgery. The enzyme levels in all samples from the drainage vein were found to be higher than the levels in the artery that fed the tumor. Hence, the origin of elevated alpha1,3fucosyltransferase in serum was thought to be the tumor rather than the liver that is the normal source of serum alpha1,3fucosyltransferase. When serum samples not only from colorectal cancer patients but also from patients with gastric, liver, lung, pancreas, bladder and esophagus cancer were treated with anti-FUTVI antibody, the measured activities of alpha1,3fucosyltransferase were markedly reduced. Further, secretion of alpha1,3fucosyltransferase from human colorectal carcinoma cells was also detected in the culture medium by Western immuno-blot analysis with anti-FUTVI antibody.
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- T Asao
- First Department of Surgery, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan.
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Delmotte P, Degroote S, Lafitte JJ, Lamblin G, Perini JM, Roussel P. Tumor necrosis factor alpha increases the expression of glycosyltransferases and sulfotransferases responsible for the biosynthesis of sialylated and/or sulfated Lewis x epitopes in the human bronchial mucosa. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:424-31. [PMID: 11679593 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109958200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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There is increasing evidence that inflammation may affect glycosylation and sulfation of various glycoproteins. The present study reports the effect of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a proinflammatory cytokine, on the glycosyl- and sulfotransferases of the human bronchial mucosa responsible for the biosynthesis of Lewis x epitope and of its sialylated and/or sulfated derivatives, which are expressed in human bronchial mucins. Fragments of macroscopically normal human bronchial mucosa were exposed to TNF-alpha at a concentration of 20 ng/ml. TNF-alpha was shown to increase alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase activity as well as expression of the two alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase genes expressed in the human airway, FUT3 and FUT4. It had no influence on alpha1,2-fucosyltransferase activity or FUT2 expression. It also increased alpha2,3-sialyltransferase activity and the expression of ST3Gal-III and, more importantly, ST3Gal-IV and both N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase and galactose 3-O-sulfotransferase. These results are consistent with the observation of oversialylation and increased expression sialyl-Lewis x epitopes on human airway mucins secreted by patients with severe lung infection such as those with cystic fibrosis, whose airways are colonized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, other cytokines may also be involved in this process.
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de Vries T, Storm J, Rotteveel F, Verdonk G, van Duin M, van den Eijnden DH, Joziasse DH, Bunschoten H. Production of soluble human alpha3-fucosyltransferase (FucT VII) by membrane targeting and in vivo proteolysis. Glycobiology 2001; 11:711-7. [PMID: 11555615 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/11.9.711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The rational design of fucosyltransferase (FucT VII) inhibitors as potential medication in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis requires the three-dimensional structure of this member of the glycosyltransferase family. Structure determination by X-ray diffraction analysis needs purified, soluble enzyme protein. For this purpose we developed a novel method for the high-yield production of soluble FucT VII by in vivo proteolysis. To obtain a soluble form of FucT VII a mammalian expression construct was made encoding an N-terminal portion of FucT VI (amino acids 1-63) fused with the stem region and catalytic domain of FucT VII (amino acids 39-342). Chinese hamster ovary cells stably transfected with this construct produced FucT activity in the supernatant, which has the same catalytic properties as wild-type FucT VII. This soluble form of FucT VII can be obtained in high amounts (1 mg/L) and can be efficiently purified by GDP-hexanolamine affinity chromatography. In conclusion, it was demonstrated that the intrinsic properties of FucT VII could be transferred to secreted FucT VII constructs, which may open possibilities for production of soluble forms of other members of the glycosyltransferase family as well.
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- T de Vries
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Marionneau S, Cailleau-Thomas A, Rocher J, Le Moullac-Vaidye B, Ruvoën N, Clément M, Le Pendu J. ABH and Lewis histo-blood group antigens, a model for the meaning of oligosaccharide diversity in the face of a changing world. Biochimie 2001; 83:565-73. [PMID: 11522384 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(01)01321-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 241] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Antigens of the ABH and Lewis histo-blood group family have been known for a long time. Yet their biological meaning is still largely obscure. Based on the available knowledge about the genes involved in their biosynthesis and about their tissue distribution in humans and other mammals, we discuss here the selective forces that may maintain or propagate these oligosaccharide antigens. The ABO, alpha 1,2fucosyltransferase and alpha 1,3fucosyltransferase enzyme families have been generated by gene duplications. Members of these families contribute to biosynthesis of the antigens through epistatic interactions. We suggest that the highly polymorphic genes of each family provide intraspecies diversity that allows coping with diverse and rapidly evolving pathogens. In contrast, the genes of low frequency polymorphism are expected to play roles at the cellular level, although they may be dispensable at the individual level. In addition, some members of these three gene families are expected to be functionally redundant and may either provide a reservoir for additional diversity in the future or become inactivated. We also discuss the role of the ABH and Lewis histo-blood group antigens in pathologies such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases, but argue that it is merely incidental and devoid of evolutionary impact.
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- S Marionneau
- INSERM U419, Institute of Biology, 9, quai Moncousu, 44093 Nantes, France
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Van Dijk W, Koeleman C, Van het Hof B, Poland D, Jakobs C, Jaeken J. Increased alpha3-fucosylation of alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein in patients with congenital disorder of glycosylation type IA (CDG-Ia). FEBS Lett 2001; 494:232-5. [PMID: 11311246 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02349-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Increased fucosylation of the type (sialyl) Lewis(x) was detected on the acute-phase plasma protein alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (AGP) in patients with the congenital disorder of glycosylation type IA. This is remarkable, because in these patients the biosynthesis of guanosine 5'-diphosphate (GDP)-D-mannose is strongly decreased, and GDP-D-mannose is the direct precursor for GDP-L-fucose, the substrate for fucosyltransferases. The concomitantly occurring increased branching of the glycans of AGP and the increased fucosyltransferase activity in plasma suggest that a chronic hepatic inflammatory reaction has induced the increase in fucosylation.
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- W Van Dijk
- Glycoimmunology Group, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Reaearch Institute Immunology and Inflammatory Disease, VU Medical Centre, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Tanaka S, Yazawa S, Noguchi K, Nishimura T, Miyanaga K, Kochibe N, Poland DC, Matta KL. Molecular analysis of plasma alpha 1,3-fucosyltransferase deficiency and development of the methods for its genotyping. EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL IMMUNOGENETICS 2001; 18:1-12. [PMID: 11150848 DOI: 10.1159/000049082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Four patients with mental illness were found to be deficient in plasma alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase for the first time in Japan [Exp Clin Immunogenet 1999;16:125-130]. Complete sequencing of FUT6 genes in these individuals revealed the presence of two point mutations, i.e., G739 to A (Glu-->247 to Lys) and C945 to A (Tyr-->315 to stop). In addition to two reported alleles having G739 to A (pf1) and G739 to A and C945 to A (pf3), a new mutated allele having C945 to A (pf2) was found to be present and all the individuals who lack alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase activity in plasma were found to possess pf genes homozygously (pf/pf). In order to detect such lethal mutations in FUT6 genes easily, PCR-RFLP methods have also been developed and applied for the screening of FUT6 deficiency in a large number of samples which resulted in the demonstration of three additional FUT6-deficient individuals. The absence of alpha1,3-fucosylated molecules on alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein in plasma from all the 7 individuals was confirmed to result from the plasma alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase deficiency.
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- S Tanaka
- Japan Immunoresearch Laboratories, Takasaki, Japan
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Poland DC, Schalkwijk CG, Stehouwer CD, Koeleman CA, van het Hof B, van Dijk W. Increased alpha3-fucosylation of alpha1-acid glycoprotein in Type I diabetic patients is related to vascular function. Glycoconj J 2001; 18:261-8. [PMID: 11602810 DOI: 10.1023/a:1012412908983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Diabetic mellitus is attended by the development of endothelial dysfunction which is suggested to be accompanied with a chronic low-degree of inflammation. During a chronic hepatic inflammatory response, specific changes in glycosylation of the acute phase protein alpha1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) can be detected. In this report we studied the changes in glycosylation of AGP in more detail and evaluated the relation between a change in glycosylation of AGP and urinary albumin secretion in Type I diabetic patients. The glycosylation of AGP, studied by crossed affinity immunoelectrophoresis (CAIE) and high pH anion exchange chromatography with pulse amperometric detection (HPAEC-PAD), showed an increase in alpha3-fucosylation. Staining with an antibody against sialyl Lewis(x) (sLe(x)) implied that part of the alpha3-fucosylation was present in a sLe(x)-conformation. In the group of Type I diabetic patients with increased urinary albumin excretion, a significant increase in alpha3-fucosylation of AGP (p<0.0005) could be detected. Therefore, the increased alpha3-fucosylation of AGP can be used as an additional marker for the development of vascular complications in Type I diabetic patients.
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- D C Poland
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Glycoimmunology Group, Institute for Immunology and Inflammatory diseases, Faculty of Medicine, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Elmgren A, Börjeson C, Mollicone R, Oriol R, Fletcher A, Larson G. Identification of two functionally deficient plasma alpha 3-fucosyltransferase (FUT6) alleles. Hum Mutat 2000; 16:473-81. [PMID: 11102976 DOI: 10.1002/1098-1004(200012)16:6<473::aid-humu4>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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One Indonesian individual without detectable plasma alpha3-fucosyltransferase activity was identified with three point mutations, 730C>G (L244V), 907C>G (R303G), and 370C>T (P124S), in the coding region of one FUT6 allele. Another individual, expressing weak plasma alpha3-fucosyltransferase activity, had the 907C>G together with the 370C>T mutation, but did not have the 730C>G mutation. PCR-RFLP analyses of complete families confirmed the segregation of these alleles and illustrated the existence and inheritance of the [370C>T; 907C>G] mutated allele in three additional families. Altogether, this allele was found heterozygously in nine Indonesian and two Swedish individuals, all with detectable plasma alpha3-fucosyltransferase activities. The FUT6 allele with the three mutations (370C>T; 730C>G; 907C>G) was identified heterozygously in only two Indonesian individuals, both having the inactivating 739G>A mutation in the other allele and both lacking plasma alpha3-fucosyltransferase activity. Enzyme studies made on transiently transfected COS-7 cells demonstrated that the combination of the 370C>T, 730C>G and 907C>G mutations decreased the V(max) by more than 80%, but caused no obvious change of the apparent K(m) values for GDP-fucose and Gal-N-acetyllactosamine. In comparison, chimeric constructs with the isolated 730C>G or 907C>G mutations decreased the V(max) values by about two thirds and one third, respectively.
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- A Elmgren
- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
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Schnyder-Candrian S, Borsig L, Moser R, Berger EG. Localization of alpha 1,3-fucosyltransferase VI in Weibel-Palade bodies of human endothelial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:8369-74. [PMID: 10900002 PMCID: PMC26954 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.15.8369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/1999] [Accepted: 05/15/2000] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Surface glycosylation of endothelial cells is relevant to various processes including coagulation, inflammation, metastasis, and lymphocyte homing. One of the essential sugars involved in these processes is fucose linked alpha1-->3 to N-acetylglucosamine. A family of alpha1,3-fucosyltransferases (FucTs) called FucT-III, IV, V, VI, VII, and IX is able to catalyze such fucosylations. Reverse transcription-PCR analysis revealed that human umbilical vein endothelial cells express all of the FucTs except FucT-IX. The predominant activity, as inferred by acceptor specificity of enzyme activity in cell lysates, is compatible with the presence of FucT-VI. By using an antibody to recombinant soluble FucT-VI, the enzyme colocalized with beta4-galactosyltransferase-1 to the Golgi apparatus. By using a polyclonal antiserum raised against a 17-aa peptide of the variable (stem) region of the FucT-VI, immunocytochemical staining of FucT-VI was restricted to Weibel-Palade bodies, as determined by colocalization with P-selectin and von Willebrand factor. SDS/PAGE immunoblotting and amino acid sequencing of internal peptides confirmed the identity of the antigen isolated by the peptide-specific antibody as FucT-VI. Storage of a fucosyltransferase in Weibel-Palade bodies suggests a function independent of Golgi-associated glycosylation.
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- S Schnyder-Candrian
- Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Pasquarello C, Picasso S, Demange R, Malissard M, Berger EG, Vogel P. The C-disaccharide alpha-C(1-->3)-mannopyranoside of N-acetylgalactosamine is an inhibitor of glycohydrolases and of human alpha-1,3-fucosyltransferase VI. Its epimer alpha-(1-->3)-mannopyranoside of N-acetyltalosamine is not. J Org Chem 2000; 65:4251-60. [PMID: 10891123 DOI: 10.1021/jo991952u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The radical C-glycosidation of (-)-(1S,4R,5R, 6R)-6-endo-chloro-3-methylidene-5-exo-(phenylseleno)-7-ox abi cyclo[2. 2.1]heptan-2-one ((-)-4) with 2,3,4, 6-tetra-O-acetyl-alpha-D-mannopyranosyl bromide gave (+)-(1S,3R,4R, 5R,6R)-6-endo-chloro-5-exo-(phenylseleno)-3-endo-(1',3',4', 5'-tetra-O-acetyl-2', 6'-anhydro-7'-deoxy-D-glycero-D-manno-heptitol-7'-C-yl)-7-oxabi cyc lo[ 2.2.1]hept-2-one ((+)-5) that was converted into (+)-(1R,2S,5R, 6R)-5-acetamido-3-chloro-2-hydroxy-6-(1',3',4',5'-tetra-O-acetyl)-2', 6'-anhydro-7'-deoxy-D-glycero-D-manno-heptitol-7'-C-yl)cyclohex -3-en- 1-yl acetate ((+)-10) and into (+)-(1R,2S,5R, 6S)-5-bromo-3-chloro-2-hydroxy-6-(1',3',4',5'-tetra-O-acetyl-2', 6'-anhydro-7'-deoxy-D-glycero-D-manno-heptitol-7'-C-yl)cyclohex -3-en- 1-yl acetate ((+)-19). Ozonolysis of (+)-10 and further transformations provided 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-C-(2', 6'-anhydro-7'-deoxy-D-glycero-D-manno-heptitol-7'-C-yl)-D-galac tos e (alpha-C(1-->3)-D-mannopyranoside of N-acetylgalactosamine (alpha-D-Manp-(1-->3)CH(2)-D-GalNAc): 1). Displacement of the bromide (+)-19 with NaN(3) in DMF provided the corresponding azide ((-)-20) following a S(N)2 mechanism. Ozonolysis of (-)-20 and further transformations led to 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-C-(2', 6'-anhydro-7'-deoxy-D-glycero-D-manno-heptitol-7'-C-yl)-D-talose (alpha-C(1-->3)-D-mannopyranoside of N-acetyl D-talosamine (alpha-D-Manp-(1-->3)CH(2)-D-TalNAc): 2). The neutral C-disaccharide 1 inhibits several glycosidases (e.g., beta-galactosidase from jack bean with K(i) = 7.5 microM, alpha-L-fucosidase from human placenta with K(i) = 28 microM, beta-glucosidase from Caldocellum saccharolyticum with K(i) = 18 microM) and human alpha-1, 3-fucosyltransferase VI (Fuc-TVI) with K(i) = 120 microM whereas it 2-epimer 2 does not. Double reciprocal analysis showed that the inhibition of Fuc-TVI by 1 displays a mixed pattern with respect to both the donor sugar GDP-fucose and the acceptor LacNAc with K(i) of 123 and 128 microM, respectively.
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- C Pasquarello
- Section de Chimie, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland
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Azuma Y, Murata M, Matsumoto K. Alteration of sugar chains on alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein secreted following cytokine stimulation of HuH-7 cells in vitro. Clin Chim Acta 2000; 294:93-103. [PMID: 10727676 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-8981(99)00248-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In inflammation, hepatocytes secrete several proteins into serum, the so-called acute phase proteins. In addition to increased serum levels of alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (AGP), there are also changes in the composition of its sugar chains. To investigate the cytokine-stimulated alteration of sugar chains on AGP, we cultured the human hepatoma cell line HuH-7 cells in serum-free medium (IS-RPMI) with and without IL-1beta and IL-6, and analyzed AGP secretion into the medium. AGP was increased during stimulation with both IL-1beta and IL-6, although the effect of IL-1beta was more pronounced. Lectin-binding assay for secreted AGP also indicated significant increases in the binding activities to Aleuria aurantia lectin (AAL), Sambucus sieboldiana agglutinin (SSA), and concanavalin-A (ConA). In particular, AAL binding activity increased with higher expression of the sialyl Lewis X (sLe(X)) antigen, NeuAc alpha2-3 Gal beta1-4 (Fuc alpha1-3) GlcNAc-R. Thus, the increase in AGP fucosylation may be correlated with the increase of sLe(X). The present results indicate that the serum-free culture of HuH-7 cells provides a useful model for investigating the secretion of proteins from hepatocytes, and the effects of cytokines on the changes in sugar chains of glycoproteins in vitro.
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- Y Azuma
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, 2-2-1 Miyama, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan.
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Rydén I, Lundblad A, Påhlsson P. Lectin ELISA for Analysis of α1-Acid Glycoprotein Fucosylation in the Acute Phase Response. Clin Chem 1999. [DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/45.11.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Ingvar Rydén
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Kalmar County Hospital, S-39185 Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedicine and Surgery, Division of Clinical Chemistry, Linköping University Hospital, S-58185 Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedicine and Surgery, Division of Clinical Chemistry, Linköping University Hospital, S-58185 Linköping, Sweden
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Borsig L, Imbach T, Höchli M, Berger EG. alpha1,3Fucosyltransferase VI is expressed in HepG2 cells and codistributed with beta1,4galactosyltransferase I in the golgi apparatus and monensin-induced swollen vesicles. Glycobiology 1999; 9:1273-80. [PMID: 10536043 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/9.11.1273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The major alpha1,3fucosyltransferase activity in plasma, liver, and kidney is related to fucosyltransferase VI which is encoded by the FUT6 gene. Here we demonstrate the presence of alpha1, 3fucosyltransferase VI (alpha3-FucT VI) in the human HepG2 hepatoma cell line by specific activity assays, detection of transcripts, and the use of specific antibodies. First, FucT activity in HepG2 cell lysates was shown to prefer sialyl-N-acetyllactosamine as acceptor substrate indicating expression of alpha3-FucT VI. RT-PCR analysis further confirmed the exclusive presence of the alpha3-FucT VI transcripts among the five human alpha3-FucTs cloned to date. alpha3-FucT VI was colocalized with beta1,4galactosyltransferase I (beta4-GalT I) to the Golgi apparatus by dual confocal immunostaining. Pulse/chase analysis of metabolically labeled alpha3-FucT VI showed maturation of alpha3-FucT VI from the early 43 kDa form to the mature, endoglycosidase H-resistant form of 47 kDa which was detected after 2 h of chase. alpha3-FucT VI was released to the medium and accounted for 50% of overall cell-associated and released enzyme activity. Release occurred by proteolytical cleavage which produced a soluble form of 43 kDa. Monensin treatment segregated alpha3-FucT VI from the Golgi apparatus to swollen peripheral vesicles where it was colocalized with beta4-GalT I while alpha2,6(N)sialyltransferase remained associated with the Golgi apparatus. Both constitutive secretion of alpha3-FucT VI and its monensin-induced relocation to vesicles analogous to beta4-GalT I suggest a similar post-Golgi pathway of both alpha3-FucT VI and beta4-GalT I.
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- L Borsig
- Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Gagneux P, Varki A. Evolutionary considerations in relating oligosaccharide diversity to biological function. Glycobiology 1999; 9:747-55. [PMID: 10406840 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/9.8.747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 359] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The oligosaccharide chains (glycans) attached to cell surface and extracellular proteins and lipids are known to mediate many important biological roles. However, for many glycans, there are still no evident functions that are of obvious benefit to the organism that synthesizes them. There is also no clear explanation for the extreme complexity and diversity of glycans that can be found on a given glycoconjugate or cell type. Based on the limited information available about the scope and distribution of this diversity among taxonomic groups, it is difficult to see clear trends or patterns consistent with different evolutionary lineages. It appears that closely related species may not necessarily share close similarities in their glycan diversity, and that more derived species may have simpler as well as more complex structures. Intraspecies diversity can also be quite extensive, often without obvious functional relevance. We suggest one general explanation for these observations, that glycan diversification in complex multicellular organisms is driven by evolutionary selection pressures of both endogenous and exogenous origin. We argue that exogenous selection pressures mediated by viral and microbial pathogens and parasites that recognize glycans have played a more prominent role, favoring intra- and interspecies diversity. This also makes it difficult to appreciate and elucidate the specific endogenous roles of the glycans within the organism that synthesizes them.
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- P Gagneux
- Glycobiology Program and UCSD Cancer Center, Divisions of Hematology-Oncology and Cellular and Molecular Medicine,University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0687, USA
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Yazawa S, Tanaka S, Nishimura T, Miyanaga K, Kochibe N. Plasma alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase deficiency in schizophrenia. EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL IMMUNOGENETICS 1999; 16:125-30. [PMID: 10394050 DOI: 10.1159/000019104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Levels of plasma alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase (alpha1,3FT) were assayed in 44 patients with schizophrenia and in 50 healthy controls. Significantly reduced enzyme activities were observed in patients (p < 0.05) and 4 unrelated patients were found, for the first time in Japan, to be deficient in the enzyme activity. Two point mutations in the coding region of the FUT6 gene encoding plasma alpha1,3FT that were responsible for the inactivation of the enzyme activity were detected in those patients. Genotyping of the Le gene (FUT3) in these patients demonstrated that 2 of them were also FUT3 deficient and were grouped as Lewis- individuals whereas the rest were Lewis+.
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- S Yazawa
- Japan Immunoresearch Laboratories, Takasaki, Japan.
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Zhang A, Potvin B, Zaiman A, Chen W, Kumar R, Phillips L, Stanley P. The gain-of-function Chinese hamster ovary mutant LEC11B expresses one of two Chinese hamster FUT6 genes due to the loss of a negative regulatory factor. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:10439-50. [PMID: 10187834 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.15.10439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The LEC11 Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) gain-of-function mutant expresses an alpha(1,3)fucosyltransferase (alpha(1,3)Fuc-T) activity that generates the LeX, sialyl-LeX, and VIM-2 glycan determinants and has been extensively used for studies of E-selectin ligand specificity. In order to identify regulatory mechanisms that control alpha(1,3)Fuc-T expression in mammals, mechanisms of FUT gene expression were investigated in LEC11 cells and two new, independent mutants, LEC11A and LEC11B. Northern and ribonuclease protection analyses, using probes that span the coding region of a cloned CHO FUT gene, detected transcripts in each LEC11 mutant but not in CHO cells or other gain-of-function CHO mutants that express a different alpha(1,3)Fuc-T activity. Coding region sequence analysis and alpha(1,3)Fuc-T acceptor specificity comparisons with recombinant human Fuc-TV and Fuc-TVI showed that the cloned FUT gene is orthologous to the human FUT6 gene. Southern analyses identified two closely related FUT6 genes in the Chinese hamster, whose evolutionary relationships are discussed. The blots showed that rearrangements had occurred in LEC11A and LEC11 genomic DNA, consistent with a cis mechanism of FUT6 gene activation in these mutants. By contrast, somatic cell hybrid analyses revealed that LEC11B cells express FUT6 gene transcripts due to the loss of a trans-acting, negative regulatory factor. Sequencing of reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction products identified unique 5'- and 3'-untranslated region sequences in FUT6 gene transcripts from each LEC11 mutant. Northern and Southern analyses with gene-specific probes showed that LEC11A cells express only the cgFUT6A gene (where cg is Cricetulus griseus), whereas LEC11 and LEC11B cells express only the cgFUT6B gene. In LEC11A x LEC11B hybrid cells, the cgFUT6A gene was predominantly expressed, as predicted if a trans-acting negative regulatory factor functions to suppress cgFUT6B gene expression in CHO cells. This factor is predicted to be a cell type-specific regulator of FUT6 gene expression in mammals.
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- A Zhang
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, 10461, USA
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Davril M, Degroote S, Humbert P, Galabert C, Dumur V, Lafitte JJ, Lamblin G, Roussel P. The sialylation of bronchial mucins secreted by patients suffering from cystic fibrosis or from chronic bronchitis is related to the severity of airway infection. Glycobiology 1999; 9:311-21. [PMID: 10024669 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/9.3.311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bronchial mucins were purified from the sputum of 14 patients suffering from cystic fibrosis and 24 patients suffering from chronic bronchitis, using two CsBr density-gradient centrifugations. The presence of DNA in each secretion was used as an index to estimate the severity of infection and allowed to subdivide the mucins into four groups corresponding to infected or noninfected patients with cystic fibrosis, and to infected or noninfected patients with chronic bronchitis. All infected patients suffering from cystic fibrosis were colonized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. As already observed, the mucins from the patients with cystic fibrosis had a higher sulfate content than the mucins from the patients with chronic bronchitis. However, there was a striking increase in the sialic acid content of the mucins secreted by severely infected patients as compared to noninfected patients. Thirty-six bronchial mucins out of 38 contained the sialyl-Lewis x epitope which was even expressed by subjects phenotyped as Lewis negative, indicating that at least one alpha1,3 fucosyltransferase different from the Lewis enzyme was involved in the biosynthesis of this epitope. Finally, the sialyl-Lewis x determinant was also overexpressed in the mucins from severely infected patients. Altogether these differences in the glycosylation process of mucins from infected and noninfected patients suggest that bacterial infection influences the expression of sialyltransferases and alpha1,3 fucosyltransferases in the human bronchial mucosa.
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- M Davril
- Unité INSERM no. 377, Place de Verdun, 59045 Lille Cedex, France
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Sherwood AL, Nguyen AT, Whitaker JM, Macher BA, Stroud MR, Holmes EH. Human alpha1,3/4-fucosyltransferases. III. A Lys/Arg residue located within the alpha1,3-FucT motif is required for activity but not substrate binding. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:25256-60. [PMID: 9737990 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.39.25256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Amino acid sequence alignment of human alpha1, 3/4-fucosyltransferases (FucTs) demonstrates that three highly conserved Lys residues are present in the catalytic domain of FucTs III, IV, V, and VI. Two of these sites are conserved in FucT VII, with the third located within the alpha1,3-FucT motif as a conservative change to Arg at position 223. Site-directed mutagenesis experiments were conducted to change Lys255 of FucT V (equivalent to Arg223 of FucT VII) to either Arg255 or Ala255. Enzyme assays demonstrate that the FucT V K255R mutant has a 34-fold lower specific activity than native FucT V and that the K255A mutant is inactive. Site-directed mutagenesis of FucT VII was also conducted to change Arg223 to Lys223 for analysis of the effect on enzyme kinetic parameters. No differences in acceptor specificities or Km values for either substrate were observed between native FucT VII and the R223K mutant; however, the purified R223K mutant enzyme had a 2-fold increased specific activity compared with purified native FucT VII. No change in GDP-fucose-protectable pyridoxal-P/NaBH4 inactivation was observed for native or mutant FucT V or VII, further supporting the absence of involvement of this residue in sugar nucleotide binding. The results indicate that a basic residue in this position is required for enzyme activity, with a Lys residue providing higher intrinsic activity. The lack of influence of this site on substrate binding parameters and its location within the alpha1,3-FucT motif suggest that at least some of the residues within this motif are involved in catalysis rather than substrate binding.
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- A L Sherwood
- Division of Cell Surface Biochemistry, Northwest Hospital, Pacific Northwest Cancer Foundation, Seattle, Washington 98125, USA
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Havenaar EC, Axford JS, Brinkman-van der Linden EC, Alavi A, Van Ommen EC, van het Hof B, Spector T, Mackiewicz A, Van Dijk W. Severe rheumatoid arthritis prohibits the pregnancy-induced decrease in alpha3-fucosylation of alpha1-acid glycoprotein. Glycoconj J 1998; 15:723-9. [PMID: 9881778 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006944700325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may experience a temporary reduction of disease symptoms during pregnancy. As indicated by the occurrence of RA-disease symptoms during pregnancy, three categories of patients were defined, namely, remission, relapse and unchanged. In all three categories changes in the plasma level and glycosylation of alpha1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) were determined longitudinally in comparison to those occurring in pregnancy of healthy women. In healthy pregnancy, we observed: (i) a peak in the plasma concentration at week 18 and a minimum at week 30; (ii) a continuous increase in the degree of branching of the glycans during the entire pregnancy period, and (iii) a decrease in the degree of alpha3-fucosylation of AGP-glycans with a minimum occurring at week 25. Comparable pregnancy-induced changes in glycosylation were found for two other acute-phase proteins alpha1-protease inhibitor (PI) and alpha1-antichymotrypsin (ACT). Increased oestrogen levels, known to occur during pregnancy, may be one of the factors that induce these changes, because the increased branching and decreased alpha3-fucosylation is in agreement with our earlier findings regarding an involvement of this hormone in the regulation of acute phase protein glycosylation in oestrogen-treated males as well as females. In all three clinical categories in RA, pregnancy also induced a continuous increase in the degree of branching of the glycans of AGP. However, similar changes in concentration and fucosylation were only found during remission of the disease symptoms. In the relapse and unchanged categories in RA, the degree of fucosylation and the plasma concentration of AGP remained constant throughout pregnancy. This indicates a relationship between changes in alpha3-fucosylation of AGP and RA disease activity.
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- E C Havenaar
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Havenaar EC, Hoff RC, van den Eijnden DH, van Dijk W. Sialyl Lewis(x) epitopes do not occur on acute phase proteins in mice: relationship to the absence of alpha3-fucosyltransferase in the liver. Glycoconj J 1998; 15:389-95. [PMID: 9613826 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006977903048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Mice are frequently used in models for the study of immunological processes related to inflammation. Since it is known that the degree of fucosylation of human acute phase proteins (APPs) is altered as a consequence of an inflammatory response, we have undertaken this study to gain more insight into the fucosylation of acute phase proteins as it occurs in mouse liver. Mice carrying the cluster of the three genes encoding human alpha1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), one of the well known APPs, were used and the fucosylation of AGP was assessed. A complete absence of fucosylation on the transgenic human AGP was found, which is in sharp contrast to AGP in human serum, of which a major proportion is normally alpha3-fucosylated. Remarkably, a large proportion of mouse AGP did contain fucose residues. Fucosylation was also detected on another APP, mouse protease inhibitor (PI). Alpha3-fucosylation of the transgenic human AGP can be achieved in vitro, using an alpha3/4-fucosyltransferase (alpha3/4-FucT) isolated from human milk, showing that the glycoprotein is not intrinsically resistant to fucosylation. Upon subsequent measurement of the activities of the possible fucosyltransferases present in liver membranes of parent and transgenic mice, only an N-linked-core alpha6-FucT and no alpha2-, alpha3- or alpha4-FucT activity was detected. This indicates that fucose residues found on the mouse serum proteins AGP and PI, which are synthesized in the liver, are most probably in alpha6-linkage to the core chitobiosyl unit. Interestingly, both alpha6- and alpha3-FucT activity was detectable in human liver membranes. None of the above mentioned findings were influenced by the induction of an acute phase response by administration of bacterial lipopolysaccharide. This study shows that: (a) alpha6-FucT is probably a protein specific-glycosyltransferase, since mouse AGP, but not human AGP, may be used as an acceptor; (b) in contrast to human liver, mouse liver does not express any alpha3-FucT-activity, thereby making the mouse incapable of producing the Sialyl Lewis(x) epitope on APPs, which is an important part of the inflammatory reaction in humans. This last finding indicates that the mouse is not suitable as a model for the study of those phenomena related to inflammation in humans, in which glycosylation of acute phase proteins could play a significant role.
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- E C Havenaar
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Van Dijk W, Brinkman-Van der Linden EC, Havenaar EC. Occurrence and possible function of inflammation-induced expression of sialyl Lewis-x on acute-phase proteins. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1998; 435:145-50. [PMID: 9498073 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5383-0_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- W Van Dijk
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Samuelsson C, Gustafson S. Studies on the interaction between hyaluronan and a rat colon cancer cell line. Glycoconj J 1998; 15:169-75. [PMID: 9557877 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006920323095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Binding studies with 125I-Tyr labelled hyaluronan (HA) on a cultured rat colon cancer cell line were performed to characterize the association of HA to tumour cells in vitro. Results show a specific and saturable binding (Kd=1.36 nM) which indicates the presence of an HA binding receptor on the tumour cells. There is a specific constant increase of cell-associated HA over time, which indicates that HA is specifically taken up by the cells through endocytosis. The binding of 125I-Tyr labelled HA was more effectively inhibited by unlabelled HA of high MW in relation to low MW species of the polysaccharide indicating that the receptor binds HA of high MW with greater affinity than low MW species. In competition experiments, the HA-binding could not be inhibited by other polysaccharides such as chondroitin sulphate and heparin. Nor could ligands for scavenger receptors and antibodies directed towards ICAM-1, CD 44 and RHAMM (Receptor for HA Mediated Motility) significantly inhibit the association of HA to tumour cells.
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- C Samuelsson
- Department of Medical and Physiological Chemistry, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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Costache M, Cailleau A, Fernandez-Mateos P, Oriol R, Mollicone R. Advances in molecular genetics of alpha-2- and alpha-3/4-fucosyltransferases. Transfus Clin Biol 1997; 4:367-82. [PMID: 9269717 DOI: 10.1016/s1246-7820(97)80042-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Fucosyltransferases are involved in the last steps of the biosynthesis of ABH and Lewis oligosaccharide antigens. Seven human genes (FUT1 to FUT7) and one pseudogene (Sec 1) have been cloned and localized on different chromosomes (9q34.3; 11q21; 19p13.3 and 19q13.3). Their locations and their high degree of primary sequence identity, suggest that they have appeared by successive duplications followed by translocation and divergent evolution. Their expression is tissue specific and they present a switch during human embryo-foetal development similar to that of hemoglobins. Polymorphic genes FUT1-FUT2 and FUT3-FUT5-FUT6 are organized in two clusters and each gene is partially or totally inactivated by different types of point mutations (nonsense, missense and frame shift), complete gene deletion or a fusion gene. The products of the monomorphic genes FUT4 and FUT7 seem implicated in cell-cell interactions during embryo-foetal development and in the leukocyte adhesion phenomena to endothelial cells in the adult. A phylogenetic tree of the 28 available nucleotide coding sequences of fucosyltransferases has allowed us to situate the duplication events with respect to the separation of species from the main evolutionary path (nematods, birds, mammals, primates and humans). Recently, using a computer approach a general structure of fucosyltransferases has been proposed, inspired from the crystalline structure of the beta-glucosyltransferase of bacteriophage T4. This folding contains two domains with an alternate succession alpha and beta chains. In this model the GDP-fucose binding site would be located between the two domains.
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- M Costache
- INSERM U178, Université Paris-Sud (XI), Villejuif, France
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Havenaar EC, Dolhain RJ, Turner GA, Goodarzi MT, van Ommen EC, Breedveld FC, van Dijk W. Do synovial fluid acute phase proteins from patients with rheumatoid arthritis originate from serum? Glycoconj J 1997; 14:457-65. [PMID: 9249143 DOI: 10.1023/a:1018547417702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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This study was performed in order to gain insight into the occurrence, glycosylation and the possible origin of the acute-phase proteins alpha1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) and alpha1-protease inhibitor (PI) in sera and synovial fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Therefore paired sera and synovial fluid samples from patients with RA, and paired synovial fluid samples from right and left knees of patients with varying degrees of arthritis were studied. Crossed affinity immunoelectrophoresis (CAIE) was used with concanavalin A and Aleuria aurantia lectin for the detection of the degree of branching and fucosylation, respectively, and the monoclonal CSLEX-1 for the detection of Sialyl Lewis(X) (SLe(X)) groups on AGP. For PI, not only CAIE, but also high-pressure-anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection was used to study the glycosylation. It was established that the concentrations of AGP and PI were increased in the serum of RA patients compared to normal healthy controls, but that the concentration of both proteins, as well as albumin, was significantly lower in synovial fluid than in serum. Furthermore, the type of glycosylation of both AGP and PI found in RA was significantly different from that found in normals, with increased fucosylation, but there were no major differences in the degree of branching of AGP- or PI-glycans in RA, compared to normals. No differences in glycosylation could be established between serum and synovial fluid in RA. For PI an increased fucosylation was found, both in serum and synovial fluid, using both methods of detection, and it could be established that only the alpha1-->3- and not the alpha1-->6-fucosylation of PI was affected by RA. The increased fucosylation of AGP resulted in an increased expression of SLe(X) on AGP-glycans. Since the alpha1-->3-fucosylation of AGP was significantly increased in both serum and synovial fluid from RA patients, and this correlated with systemic but not with local disease parameters, it can be suggested that acute phase proteins in synovial fluid are most probably of hepatic origin.
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- E C Havenaar
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Larson G, Börjeson C, Elmgren A, Kernholt A, Henry S, Fletcher A, Aziz A, Mollicone R, Oriol R. Identification of a new plasma alpha(1,3)fucosyltransferase (FUT6) allele requires an extended genotyping strategy. Vox Sang 1996; 71:233-41. [PMID: 8958648 DOI: 10.1046/j.1423-0410.1996.7140233.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Screening the FUT6 gene of 40 Swedish individuals, originally selected for genotyping of FUT3, revealed an unexpected high frequency of mutations. Four were originally typed as homozygous for the enzyme lethal mutation G739A by Taq alpha I restriction pattern, but only one lacked plasma alpha(1,3)fucosyltransferase activity. Cloning and sequencing of FUT6 from 2 of them revealed a new allele, without the G739A mutation, but with two new point mutations C738T and G977A. Segregation of this allele was confirmed in Swedish and Indonesian families. Since G739A and C738T mutations are only one nucleotide apart and induce the same modification of Taq alpha I cleavage, a new screening strategy for FUT6 was adopted. The homozygous inactivating G739A mutation was for the first time identified in Caucasian and Polynesian individuals, both lacking plasma enzyme activity. The mutation C370T was present in 25 of the 40 Swedish individuals and the inactivating mutation C945A was not found at all. These findings stress the dangers of transferring restriction enzyme genotype strategies from one population to another and of inferring phenotypes from genotypes without phenotyping and/or performing confirmatory cloning and sequencing.
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- G Larson
- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, Göteborg University, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Sweden
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Auchincloss A, Alexander A, Kohorn B. Requirement for three membrane-spanning alpha-helices in the post-translational insertion of a thylakoid membrane protein. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50038-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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