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Voss M. Proteolytic cleavage of Golgi glycosyltransferases by SPPL3 and other proteases and its implications for cellular glycosylation. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2024; 1868:130668. [PMID: 38992482 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2024.130668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2024] [Revised: 07/03/2024] [Accepted: 07/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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Glycosylation of proteins and lipids is of fundamental importance in multicellular eukaryotes. The vast diversity of glycan structures observed is generated in the Golgi apparatus by the concerted activity of >100 distinct enzymes, which include glycosyltransferases and other glycan-modifying enzymes. Well-known for decades, the majority of these enzymes is released from the Golgi apparatus and subsequently secreted into the extracellular space following endoproteolytic cleavage, but the underlying molecular mechanisms and the physiological implications have remained unexplored. This review will summarize our current knowledge of Golgi enzyme proteolysis and secretion and will discuss its conceptual implications for the regulation of cellular glycosylation and the organization of the Golgi apparatus. A particular focus will lie on the intramembrane protease SPPL3, which recently emerged as key protease facilitating Golgi enzyme release and has since been shown to affect a multitude of glycosylation-dependent physiological processes.
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- Matthias Voss
- Institute of Biochemistry, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
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Hirata T, Harada Y, Hirosawa KM, Tokoro Y, Suzuki KG, Kizuka Y. N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V (GnT-V)-enriched small extracellular vesicles mediate N-glycan remodeling in recipient cells. iScience 2022; 26:105747. [PMID: 36590176 PMCID: PMC9794981 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Revised: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) secreted from cancer cells play pivotal roles in cancer metastasis and malignancy by transferring biomolecules and conditioning future metastatic sites. Studies have elucidated structures and functions of glycans on sEVs; however, whether sEVs remodel glycans in recipient cells remains poorly understood. Here, we examined the enzyme activity of glycosyltransferases for complex N-glycan biosynthesis in cancer-derived sEVs and discovered that cancer-related glycosyltransferase, N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V (GnT-V, a.k.a. MGAT5), is selectively enriched in sEVs among various glycosyltransferases. GnT-V in sEVs is a cleaved form, and cleavage by SPPL3 protease is necessary for loading GnT-V in sEVs. Fractionation experiments and single-particle imaging further revealed that GnT-V was enriched in non-exosomal sEVs. Strikingly, we found that enzymatically active GnT-V in sEVs was transferred to recipient cells and the N-glycan structures of recipient cells were remodeled to express GnT-V-produced glycans. Our results suggest GnT-V-enriched sEVs' role in glycan remodeling in cancer metastasis.
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- Tetsuya Hirata
- Laboratory of Glyco-biochemistry, Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Department of Glyco-Oncology and Medical Biochemistry, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka 541-8567, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Laboratory of Glyco-biochemistry, Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Laboratory of Glyco-biochemistry, Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan,Corresponding author
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Shedding of N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V is regulated by maturity of cellular N-glycan. Commun Biol 2022; 5:743. [PMID: 35915223 PMCID: PMC9343384 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03697-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The number of N-glycan branches on glycoproteins is closely related to the development and aggravation of various diseases. Dysregulated formation of the branch produced by N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V (GnT-V, also called as MGAT5) promotes cancer growth and malignancy. However, it is largely unknown how the activity of GnT-V in cells is regulated. Here, we discover that the activity of GnT-V in cells is selectively upregulated by changing cellular N-glycans from mature to immature forms. Our glycomic analysis further shows that loss of terminal modifications of N-glycans resulted in an increase in the amount of the GnT-V-produced branch. Mechanistically, shedding (cleavage and extracellular secretion) of GnT-V mediated by signal peptide peptidase-like 3 (SPPL3) protease is greatly inhibited by blocking maturation of cellular N-glycans, resulting in an increased level of GnT-V protein in cells. Alteration of cellular N-glycans hardly impairs expression or localization of SPPL3; instead, SPPL3-mediated shedding of GnT-V is shown to be regulated by N-glycans on GnT-V, suggesting that the level of GnT-V cleavage is regulated by its own N-glycan structures. These findings shed light on a mechanism of secretion-based regulation of GnT-V activity. Cleavage of the glycan-branching enzyme N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V (GnT-V) by signal peptide peptidase-like 3 (SPPL3) protease and extracellular secretion of active glycan GnT-V depend on GnT-V’s own glycosylation state.
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Sun X, Mahajan D, Chen B, Song Z, Lu L. A quantitative study of the Golgi retention of glycosyltransferases. J Cell Sci 2021; 134:272560. [PMID: 34533190 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.258564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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How Golgi glycosyltransferases and glycosidases (hereafter glycosyltransferases) localize to the Golgi is still unclear. Here, we first investigated the post-Golgi trafficking of glycosyltransferases. We found that glycosyltransferases can escape the Golgi to the plasma membrane, where they are subsequently endocytosed to the endolysosome. Post-Golgi glycosyltransferases are probably degraded by ectodomain shedding. We discovered that most glycosyltransferases are not retrieved from post-Golgi sites, indicating that retention rather than retrieval is the primary mechanism for their Golgi localization. We therefore used the Golgi residence time to study Golgi retention of glycosyltransferases quantitatively and systematically. Quantitative analysis of chimeras of ST6GAL1 and either transferrin receptor or tumor necrosis factor α revealed the contributions of three regions of ST6GAL1, namely the N-terminal cytosolic tail, the transmembrane domain and the ectodomain, to Golgi retention. We found that each of the three regions is sufficient for Golgi retention in an additive manner. N-terminal cytosolic tail length negatively affects the Golgi retention of ST6GAL1, similar to effects observed for the transmembrane domain. Therefore, the long N-terminal cytosolic tail and transmembrane domain could act as Golgi export signals for transmembrane secretory cargos. This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Xiuping Sun
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore637551
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore637551
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore637551
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 20 Biopolis Way, #06-01 Centros, Singapore138668
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore637551
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Welch LG, Munro S. A tale of short tails, through thick and thin: investigating the sorting mechanisms of Golgi enzymes. FEBS Lett 2019; 593:2452-2465. [DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2019] [Revised: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Lawrence G. Welch
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Francis Crick Avenue Cambridge UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Francis Crick Avenue Cambridge UK
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Stibler H, Borg S. Glycoprotein glycosyltransferase activities in serum in alcohol-abusing patients and healthy controls. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00365513.1991.11978688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- H. Stibler
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Hospital Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, St Göran's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Voss M, Künzel U, Higel F, Kuhn PH, Colombo A, Fukumori A, Haug-Kröper M, Klier B, Grammer G, Seidl A, Schröder B, Obst R, Steiner H, Lichtenthaler SF, Haass C, Fluhrer R. Shedding of glycan-modifying enzymes by signal peptide peptidase-like 3 (SPPL3) regulates cellular N-glycosylation. EMBO J 2014; 33:2890-905. [PMID: 25354954 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201488375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Protein N-glycosylation is involved in a variety of physiological and pathophysiological processes such as autoimmunity, tumour progression and metastasis. Signal peptide peptidase-like 3 (SPPL3) is an intramembrane-cleaving aspartyl protease of the GxGD type. Its physiological function, however, has remained enigmatic, since presently no physiological substrates have been identified. We demonstrate that SPPL3 alters the pattern of cellular N-glycosylation by triggering the proteolytic release of active site-containing ectodomains of glycosidases and glycosyltransferases such as N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase V, β-1,3 N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 1 and β-1,4 galactosyltransferase 1. Cleavage of these enzymes leads to a reduction in their cellular activity. In line with that, reduced expression of SPPL3 results in a hyperglycosylation phenotype, whereas elevated SPPL3 expression causes hypoglycosylation. Thus, SPPL3 plays a central role in an evolutionary highly conserved post-translational process in eukaryotes.
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- Matthias Voss
- Adolf Butenandt Institute for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Adolf Butenandt Institute for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals/HEXAL AG, Oberhaching, Germany
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- DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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- DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany
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- DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany
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- Adolf Butenandt Institute for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany
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- Adolf Butenandt Institute for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals/HEXAL AG, Oberhaching, Germany
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- Biochemical Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Adolf Butenandt Institute for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany
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- DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany Neuroproteomics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Adolf Butenandt Institute for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
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- Adolf Butenandt Institute for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany
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Fraser IH, Mookerjea S. Purification of membrane-bound galactosyltransferase from rat liver microsomal fractions. Biochem J 2010; 164:541-7. [PMID: 16743049 PMCID: PMC1164830 DOI: 10.1042/bj1640541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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1. Rat liver microsomal preparations incubated in 1% Triton X-100 at 37 degrees C for 1h released about 60% of the membrane-bound UDP-galactose-glycoprotein galactosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.22) into a high-speed supernatant. The supernatant galactosyltransferase which was solubilized but not purified by this treatment had a higher molecular weight than the serum enzyme as shown by Sephadex G-100 column chromatography. 2. The galactosyltransferase present in the high-speed supernatant was purified 680-fold by an affinity-column-chromatographic technique by using a column of activated Sepharose 4B coupled with alpha-lactalbumin. The galactosyltransferase ran as a single band on polyacrylamide gels and contained no sialyltransferase, N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase or UDP-galactose pyrophosphatase activities. 3. The purified membrane enzyme had properties similar to serum galactosyltransferase. It had an absolute requirement for Mn(2+) that could not be replaced by Ca(2+), Mg(2+), Zn(2+) or Co(2+), and was active over a wide pH range (6-8) with a pH optimum of 6.5. The apparent K(m) for UDP-galactose was 10.8mum. The protein alpha-lactalbumin modified the enzyme to a lactose synthetase by increasing substrate specificity for glucose in preference to N-acetylglucosamine and fetuin depleted of sialic acid and galactose. 4. The molecular weight of the membrane enzyme was 65000-70000, similar to that of the purified serum enzyme. Amino acid analyses of the two proteins were similar but not identical. 5. Sephadex G-100 column chromatography of the purified membrane enzyme showed a small peak (2-5%) of higher molecular weight than the purified serum enzyme. Inclusion of 1mm-epsilon-aminohexanoic acid in the isolation procedures increased this peak to as much as 30% of the total enzyme recovered. Increasing the epsilon-aminohexanoic acid concentration to 100mm resulted in no further increase in this high-molecular-weight fraction.
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- I H Fraser
- Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7, Canada
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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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Raychoudhury SS, Millette CF. Surface-associated glycosyltransferase activities in rat Sertoli cells in vitro. Mol Reprod Dev 1993; 36:195-202. [PMID: 8257568 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1080360210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We have previously demonstrated fucosyltransferase (FT) activity on mouse germ cell surfaces at different stages of spermatogenesis. To complement these findings, here we report FT activity on the Sertoli cell (SC) surface. SC isolated and cultured from 20-day-old rat testes displayed FT activity with a Vmax of 12.5 pmoles/mg protein/min and a Km of 22 microM, while purified Sertoli cell plasma membranes (SCPM) showed FT activity with a Vmax of 10 pmoles/mg protein/min and a Km of 18.2 microM for GDP-[14C]-L-fucose. Fucosyltransferase activities were 16.7 and 2.6 pmoles/mg protein/min in SC and SCPM, respectively; approximately 16% of FT activity is, therefore, on the cell surface. To test whether the expression of FT activity in SC was regulated by hormones and growth factors, SC were cultured in serum-free medium supplemented with insulin, transferrin, sodium selenite, and epidermal growth factor (medium 4F) or in 4F plus follicle-stimulating hormone, testosterone, hydrocortisone, and vitamin E (medium 8F). We found that FT activity in SC is not modulated by these hormones or growth factors (4F or 8F). For comparison with FT, galactosyltransferase (GalTase) activities in SC and SCPM were also determined. SC displayed GalTase activity with a Vmax of 50 pmoles/mg protein/min and a Km of 38.5 microM, while SCPM showed GalTase activity with a Vmax of 25 pmoles/mg protein/min and a Km of 20.8 microM for UDP-[3H]-galactose. Galactosyl-transferase activities were 29.2 and 9.6 pmoles/mg protein/min in SC and SCPM, respectively. Therefore, approximately 33% of the total cell GalTase activity was detected on the surface membranes of rat Sertoli cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- S S Raychoudhury
- Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia 29208
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Tomana M, Zikan J, Moldoveanu Z, Kulhavy R, Bennett JC, Mestecky J. Interactions of cell-surface galactosyltransferase with immunoglobulins. Mol Immunol 1993; 30:265-75. [PMID: 8433705 DOI: 10.1016/0161-5890(93)90055-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Detection of the activity of beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase (beta-1,4-GT) in suspensions of viable mouse hepatocytes, the human hepatoma cell line Hep G2, the human colonic adenocarcinoma cell line HT-29, the monocyte-like cell line U937, and human splenic B and T lymphocytes suggested the presence of beta-1,4-GT, in an enzymatically active form, on plasma membranes. The presence of beta-1,4-GT on cell surfaces was also indicated from the effect of trypsinization of live cells, which significantly reduced cell surface beta-1,4-GT activity, but did not affect the activity associated with cytoplasmic membranes. Furthermore, the presence of beta-1,4-GT on the cell surface was demonstrated by indirect immunofluorescence staining of cells with anti-beta-1,4-GT antibody. The detection of radioactivity in immunoglobulins (Ig) and their component chains after incubation with suspensions of intact cells in the presence of Mn2+ and UDP-[3H]-galactose, indicated that Ig molecules were galactosylated. In the absence of UDP-[3H]-galactose, beta-1,4-GT on cell surfaces, or immobilized on Sepharose-4B, formed stable complexes with galactose acceptors, including Ig. The efficiency of binding decreased in the order: J chain > alpha chain > mu chain > polymeric IgA2 > monomeric/polymeric IgA1 > IgM > IgG. Thus, beta-1,4-GT could act as a cell-surface receptor for Ig through a cation-dependent, lectin-like association of the beta-1,4-GT with the carbohydrate moieties of the Ig. This was confirmed by indirect surface immunofluorescence and radiolabeled ligand binding assays. The binding was inhibitable by EDTA, alpha-lactalbumin (in the presence of glucose), GlcNAc, or uridine 3',5'dialdehyde. At 37 degrees C, the apparent affinity constants and association rate constants of interaction between cell surface beta-1,4-GT on glutaraldehyde-fixed HT-29 and U937 cells and alpha 2 chain or monomeric IgA1 were in the range from 7.1 x 10(7) to 4.6 x 10(8) M-1 and from 1 x 10(5) to 3 x 10(6) M-1 s-1, respectively. The dissociation rate constants and half time of dissociation calculated from these data were in the range from 2.1 x 10(-2) to 5.0 x 10(-4) s-1 and from 33 to 1380 s, respectively. The number of alpha 2 or IgA1 molecules bound per HT-29 and U937 cell were in the range from 1.9 x 10(5) to 1.3 x 10(6). The binding of IgA by the cell surface beta-1,4-GT was not associated with internalization or the catabolic degradation of the ligand.
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- M Tomana
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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Tomana M, Zikan J, Kulhavy R, Bennett JC, Mestecky J. Interactions of galactosyltransferase with serum and secretory immunoglobulins and their component chains. Mol Immunol 1993; 30:277-86. [PMID: 8433706 DOI: 10.1016/0161-5890(93)90056-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Assay of the activity of beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase (beta-1,4-GT) revealed that in addition to serum, milk, colostrum, amniotic and cerebrospinal fluids and malignant effusions, this enzyme is present also in tears and saliva. Molecular-sieve chromatography of human colostral whey and serum and subsequent assay of beta-1,4-GT activity have shown that beta-1,4-GT was present as a free enzyme (55 kDa) and associated with components of larger molar mass. The elution pattern did not change when the chromatography was carried out in a buffer devoid of, or enriched with, Mn2+, a cofactor of beta-1,4-GT activity. However, the activity associated with the large molar mass components was absent when the chromatography was carried out in the presence of a chelating agent (EDTA). Analyses of the eluted material by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS-PAGE), and by immunodiffusion indicated that the major colostral component in beta-1,4-GT activity-containing fractions was secretory IgA (S-IgA); in addition, the beta-1,4-GT activity was detected in fractions that contained lactoferrin and alpha-lactalbumin. Interactions of beta-1,4-GT with S-IgA and lactoferrin in colostrum were also demonstrated by the detection of radioactivity in precipitin lines obtained by immunoelectrophoresis and autoradiography of the colostral whey after it had been incubated with UDP-[3H]-galactose. Furthermore, radioactively labeled S-IgA and alpha-chain were detected when colostral whey incubated with UDP-[3H]-galactose was analyzed by SDS-PAGE under non-reducing and reducing conditions, respectively. In serum, the beta-1,4-GT-binding components identified in fractions after molecular-sieve chromatography were IgG, IgA, IgM and transferrin. The binding of beta-1,4-GT to immunoglobulins (Ig) was also demonstrated by assaying the beta-1,4-GT activity associated with Sepharose-4B-immobilized Ig of various isotypes and molecular forms, which were incubated with colostral beta-1,4-GT in the presence of Mn2+. Beta-1,4-GT measured by enzyme activity was bound to these Ig in order: polymeric IgA2 > monomeric IgA1 = polymeric IgA1 = secretory IgA = pentameric IgM > IgG. Immobilized component chains, namely alpha, mu and J chains, bound beta-1,4-GT more effectively than native Ig. Incubation of the IgA1 myeloma protein with crude human colostral galactosyltransferase in the presence of UDP[3H]-galactose and Mn2+ resulted in galactosylation of both N- and O-linked carbohydrate side chains.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- M Tomana
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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Habuchi O, Tsuzuki M, Takeuchi I, Hara M, Matsui Y, Ashikari S. Secretion of chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase and chondroitin 4-sulfotransferase from cultured chick embryo chondrocytes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1133:9-16. [PMID: 1751554 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(91)90235-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We found that chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase and chondroitin 4-sulfotransferase were released into the culture medium from the cultured chick embryo chondrocytes. Since the release of the sulfotransferases was observed not only in serum-supplemented medium but also in serum-free medium, the released sulfotransferases were unlikely to be derived from serum. Addition of ascorbate to the serum-free medium supported the continuous release of the sulfotransferases. Monensin, which is known to cause dilatation of the Golgi apparatus and to inhibit sulfation of proteoglycan, was found to affect the release of the sulfotransferases. In the presence of 10(-6) M monensin, chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase activity in the cell layer was decreased to less than one tenth of the control, and the rate of the release of the activity became much smaller than the control after the initial rapid release. The activity of chondroitin 4-sulfotransferase was also affected by monensin, but the reduction of the chondroitin 4-sulfotransferase activity in the cell layer was not so great as the reduction of chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase activity. Unlike to the microsomal sulfotransferases, both chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase and chondroitin 4-sulfotransferase released into the culture medium were retained in the soluble fraction after centrifugation at 100,000 x g for 60 min, and were not activated by detergent. pH optimum and requirements for sulfhydryl compounds of the released sulfotransferases were similar to those observed previously in the chondroitin sulfotransferases from chick embryo cartilage and from cultured chick embryo chondrocytes. These results suggest that chondroitin sulfotransferases, which are localized in the Golgi apparatus, may be secreted to the extracellular space in a soluble form under the culture conditions.
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- O Habuchi
- Department of Chemistry, Aichi Kyoiku University, Kariya, Japan
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Sichel F, Malas JP, Gauduchon P, Aubert M, Bar E, Le Talaër JY. A simple serum galactosyltransferase assay method suitable for routine use. Clin Chim Acta 1990; 188:49-58. [PMID: 2112065 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(90)90145-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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UDP-Galactose: N-acetylglucosaminyl glycoprotein beta 1-4 galactosyltransferase (GT) catalyzes the transfer of galactose to N-acetylglucosamine from UDP-[3H]Gal. The uncharged reaction product (tritiated N-acetyllactosamine) is separated from the unreacted UDP-[3H]Gal by ion-exchange chromatography. The major advantage of this method is its rapidity compared to other isotopic techniques.
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- F Sichel
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Clinique et Expérimentale, Centre F. Baclesse Caen, France
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Stibler H, Sydow O. Sialyltransferase activity in erythrocyte membranes and serum in patients with myotonic dystrophy. Acta Neurol Scand 1988; 78:278-81. [PMID: 3223222 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1988.tb03657.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Sialyltransferase activity was measured in erythrocyte membranes and in serum in patients with myotonic dystrophy and in matched healthy controls. The reason for assaying this enzyme was to study a possible mechanism behind a previously reported deficiency of glycoprotein-bound sialic acid in the erythrocyte membrane in patients with this disease. No significant differences in sialyltransferase activity with endogenous or different exogenous glycoprotein acceptors were found.
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- H Stibler
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Dudeja PK, Dahiya R, Brown MD, Brasitus TA. Dexamethasone influences the lipid fluidity, lipid composition and glycosphingolipid glycosyltransferase activities of rat proximal-small-intestinal Golgi membranes. Biochem J 1988; 253:401-8. [PMID: 3140778 PMCID: PMC1149313 DOI: 10.1042/bj2530401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Experiments were performed to examine the effects of subcutaneous administration of the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone (100 micrograms/day per 100 g body wt.) on the lipid fluidity, lipid composition and glycosphingolipid glycosyltransferase activities of rat proximal-small-intestinal Golgi membranes. After 4 days of treatment, Golgi membranes and liposomes prepared from treated rats were found to possess a greater fluidity than their control (diluent or 0.9% NaCl) counterpart, as assessed by steady-state fluorescence-polarization techniques using three different fluorophores. Moreover, analysis of the effects of temperature on the anisotropy values of 1,6-diphenylhexa-1,3,5-triene, using Arrhenius plots, demonstrated that the mean break-point temperatures of treated preparations were 4-5 degrees C lower than those of control preparations. Changes in the fatty acyl saturation index and double-bond index of treated membranes, secondary to alterations in stearic acid, linoleic acid and arachidonic acid, at least in part, appeared to be responsible for the differences in fluidity noted between treated and control Golgi membranes. Concomitant with these fluidity and lipid-compositional alterations, treated membranes possessed higher specific activities of UDP-galactosyl-lactosylceramide galactosyltransferase and CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid:lactosylceramide sialyltransferase than their control counterparts. Experiments utilizing benzyl alcohol, a known fluidizer, furthermore suggested that the fluidity alteration induced by dexamethasone may be responsible for the increased activity of the former, but not the latter, glycosphingolipid glycosyltransferase.
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- P K Dudeja
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, IL
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Gauduchon P, Bar E, Malas JP, Aubert M, Sichel F, Le Talaër JY. Serum galactosyltransferase activity with three acceptors in ovarian cancer patients. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER & CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 1988; 24:1157-62. [PMID: 2458262 DOI: 10.1016/0277-5379(88)90122-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Several laboratories have demonstrated the usefulness of serum galactosyltransferase as a biological marker for ovarian neoplasms. However, contradictory results have been published recently, which might be partially explained by differences in methodology. We thus decided to measure serum galactosyltransferase activity in patients with ovarian cancer and benign gynecological diseases using three different assay systems. A very good correlation was obtained between the results of these assays. Furthermore, we confirm that serum GT is frequently elevated in cancer patients, and is of potential value for their follow-up.
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- P Gauduchon
- Laboratoire de Biochimie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Caen, France
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Brasitus TA, Dahiya R, Dudeja PK. Rat proximal small intestinal Golgi membranes: lipid composition and fluidity. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 958:218-26. [PMID: 3337837 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(88)90180-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The present studies were conducted to examine and characterize the lipid composition and physical state of the membrane lipids of rat proximal small intestinal Golgi membranes. Golgi membranes were purified from isolated enterocytes; lipids were extracted from these membranes and analyzed by thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatography. The 'static' and 'dynamic' components of fluidity of Golgi membranes and their liposomes were assessed by steady-state fluorescence polarization techniques utilizing r infinity and S values of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene and r values of DL-2-(9-anthroyl)- and DL-12-(9-anthroyl)stearic acid, respectively. Additional studies were also performed on these membranes, using benzyl and methyl alcohol, to examine the relationship between alterations in lipid fluidity and glycosphingolipid glycosyltransferase activities. The results of these studies demonstrated that: (1) the principal phospholipids and neutral lipids of intestinal Golgi membranes, respectively, were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine and sphingomyelin, and unesterified cholesterol and fatty acids; (2) the major fatty acids of Golgi membranes were palmitic (16:0), stearic (18:0), linoleic (18:2), arachidonic (20:4) and oleic (18:1) acids; (3) fluorescence polarization studies using diphenylhexatriene detected a thermotropic transition at 24-26 degrees C in Golgi membranes and liposomes prepared from lipid extracts of these membranes; (4) benzyl alcohol (25 and 50 mM) but not methyl alcohol (50 mM) significantly increased the fluidity of these membranes; and (5) at these same concentrations, benzyl alcohol was also found to increase significantly the specific activity of UDP-galactosyllactosylceramide galactosyltransferase but not CMP-acetylneuraminic acid: lactosylceramide sialyltransferase. Methyl alcohol was not found to influence either enzyme's activity in these membranes.
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- T A Brasitus
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, IL 60637
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Klohs WD, Chi TT, Steinkampf RW, Tunac JB. Evaluation of galactosyltransferase isoenzyme II in a human colon carcinoma-derived cell line, HCT-8. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER & CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 1986; 22:205-10. [PMID: 3084263 DOI: 10.1016/0277-5379(86)90032-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of galactosyltransferase (GT) extracted from a human colon adenocarcinoma cell line, HCT-8, demonstrated the presence of two peaks of activity: a slow-moving peak, referred to as GT-II, and a more anodally migrating peak, designated as GT-I, which was also found for normal human serum. However, if GT solubilized from HCT-8 cells was separated by isoelectric focusing, no unique isoenzymes could be detected. Total GT activity from HCT-8 cells was purified by alpha-lactalbumin-Sepharose affinity chromatography followed by ion exchange chromatography on either DEAE-cellulose or FPLC using a Mono Q anion exchange resin. Three major peaks of activity were resolved from anion exchange chromatography. Electrophoresis of each peak revealed a GT pattern identical with that originally observed for the crude (detergent) solubilized homogenate. No enrichment of either GT-I or GT-II was observed in the three enzyme fractions. The data suggest that GT-II may be an artifactual activity of cancer cells composed of GT-I associated with some contaminating protein.
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Stibler H, Borg S. Glycoprotein sialyl- and galactosyl transferase activities in erythrocyte membranes in alcoholic patients and healthy controls. Drug Alcohol Depend 1986; 16:331-40. [PMID: 3084191 DOI: 10.1016/0376-8716(86)90067-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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In investigating possible mechanisms underlying carbohydrate deficiencies in serum transferrin and erythrocyte membranes in alcoholics, a total of 27 alcoholic patients and 27 healthy controls were examined for the activities of sialytransferase in serum and erythrocyte membranes and galactosyltransferase in erythrocyte membranes. The enzymes were assayed with endogenous and different exogenous glycoprotein acceptors and with [14C] CMP-sialic acid and [14C] UDP-galactose as substrates. No decrease in enzyme activities were found in alcoholic patients compared to controls, indicating that chronic ethanol abuse does not exert any direct inhibitory effect on these glycosyltransferases in isolated erythrocyte membranes or on sialytransferase in serum. Further studies of the effect of ethanol on the metabolism of complex carbohydrates are clearly necessary.
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Frithz G, Ronquist G, Ericsson P. Serum sialyltransferase and fucosyltransferase activities in patients with multiple myeloma. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER & CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 1985; 21:913-7. [PMID: 4043176 DOI: 10.1016/0277-5379(85)90107-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A significant elevation of serum sialyltransferase and fucosyltransferase mean activities was observed in 19 untreated patients with multiple myeloma. However, sialyltransferase mean activity was significantly lower in 13 other patients treated for 1-30 months with alkylating drugs and prednisolone. Such a definite decrease in serum enzyme activity on treatment was not recorded for fucosyltransferase. Instead, this activity was significantly increased in treated patients as compared to controls. The presenting clinical features of the 32 patients with multiple myeloma were the basis for a clinical staging system with regard to myeloma cell burden according to established criteria. In untreated patients (as opposed to treated ones), a significantly higher serum sialyltransferase (but not fucosyltransferase) activity was obtained among those 11 belonging to stage III than among the other eight with stages I and II, suggesting a link between tumour burden and enzyme activity. This assumption was further strengthened in those six patients followed lengthwise with regard to serum sialyltransferase activity. Concomitantly with objective evidence of change in tumour burden they showed corresponding alterations in sialyltransferase activity. The determination of sialyltransferase and fucosyltransferase activity in serum may be an additional contribution to refine initial assessment and follow-up of individual patients with multiple myeloma.
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Hopper K, Hollister W, Davey R, Semler A. Release of galactosyltransferase from peritoneal macrophages during acute inflammation. J Cell Physiol 1985; 124:137-45. [PMID: 3930517 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041240122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Peritoneal cells harvested from mice injected with Salmonella enteritidis or thioglycollate released large amounts of galactosyltransferase (GT), but not sialyltransferase, into their culture supernatants. Maximum release of GT (using ovalbumin as acceptor) occurred from cells harvested 2-4 days after primary injection, but little GT was released from cells elicited by a secondary injection of salmonella or ovalbumin in sensitised mice or during intraperitoneal allogeneic reactions. Enzyme release in culture did not parallel GT levels in serum. Most enzyme was released by large, poorly adherent, macrophage-enriched, Fc receptor-bearing peritoneal cells of low density. Normal monocytes, bone marrow cells, and platelets also produced large amounts, and normal spleen cells or polymorphonuclear leukocytes moderate amounts, of GT. Lymphocytes, dead cells, mast cells, red blood cells, or whole populations of lymph node and thymus cells released very low levels of enzyme. Very little GT was bound to the cell surface and was not passively absorbed from serum or platelets. Release of GT was prevented at 4 degrees C but was not markedly affected by a variety of metabolic inhibitors except pretreatment of the cells with thrombin, which increased release and trypsin which decreased release.
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Ram BP, Munjal DD. Galactosyltransferases: physical, chemical, and biological aspects. CRC CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY 1985; 17:257-311. [PMID: 3920003 DOI: 10.3109/10409238509113606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Galactosyltransferases (GTs) are one of the members of a family of enzymes called glycosyltransferases involved in the biosynthesis of complex carbohydrates. These enzymes catalyze the transfer of galactose from UDP-galactose to an acceptor (glycoprotein, glycolipid) containing terminal N-acetylglucosamine or N-acetylgalactosamine residue. GTs occur in soluble (milk, serum, effusions, etc.) and insoluble (membrane) forms. The GT activities on the outer surface of the cells have been correlated with a host of cellular interactions, including fertilization, cell migration, embryonic induction, chondrogenesis, contact inhibition of growth, cell adhesion, hemostasis, intestinal cell differentiation, and immune recognition. GTs have been purified to homogeneity using affinity chromatography. Most GTs are found active in the pH range 6 to 8 and at temperatures between 35 to 40 degrees C. Manganese is an essential co-factor for GT activity. Isoenzymes of GT have been recognized, especially in tumor tissues, malignant effusions, and sera of cancer patients using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence and absence of SDS. Depending on the source of the enzyme, the molecular weights of GTs range between 40,000 to 80,000 daltons. Carcinoma-associated GT isoenzyme has been reported to have a higher molecular weight than the normal GT isoenzyme. Development of monoclonal antibody against the cancer-specific GT isoenzyme will provide help in the development of an immunoassay for the measurement of this isoenzyme in the sera and an aid in the radioimmunolocalization of the tumors in cancer patients.
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Shen AL, Chou MD, Chi CW, Lee LS. Alterations in serum sialyltransferase activities in patients with brain tumors. SURGICAL NEUROLOGY 1984; 22:509-14. [PMID: 6495162 DOI: 10.1016/0090-3019(84)90313-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The activities of serum sialyltransferase were determined in patients with brain tumors. Blood samples from normal volunteers were used as controls. Serum specimens were obtained from patients with brain tumors both before and after operations. The preoperative serum sialyltransferase activities of the brain metastasis group showed significant increase, but the enzyme levels decreased after removal of the tumor. The serum sialyltransferase activities in the glioma group and the neurilemoma group increased significantly after operation, but no significant difference was found between the preoperative means of these two groups and that of the control. Surgical treatment produced significant differences between the preoperative and the postoperative serum sialyltransferase activities in the brain metastasis and the glioma and neurilemoma groups. Alterations of this enzyme in the blood of patients with brain tumors and its possible clinical applications are discussed.
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Ronquist G, Stegmayr B. Prostatic origin of fucosyl transferase in human seminal plasma--a study on healthy controls and on men with infertility or with prostatic cancer. UROLOGICAL RESEARCH 1984; 12:243-7. [PMID: 6240149 DOI: 10.1007/bf00256148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Fucosyl transferase was recovered in soluble form in human seminal plasma. The enzyme had very little activity, as it was structurally bound to prostasomes, which are membrane-surrounded organelles in seminal plasma. The fucosyl transferase activity was recorded on Sephadex G200 chromatography of seminal plasma (supernatant after ultracentrifugation) in one single peak coinciding with that of prostate-specific acid phosphatase. Studies on healthy men and on men with prostatic cancer suggest a prostatic origin of fucosyl transferase activity; two of the men with prostatic cancer displayed 50-95% decreased activities. Antiandrogenic therapy in another man with cancer resulted in substantial reductions in seminal plasma contents of fucosyl transferase, ATPase, acid phosphatase and fructose suggesting a role of testosterone in their secretions.
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Brasitus TA, Keresztes RS. Protein-lipid interactions in antipodal plasma membranes of rat colonocytes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1984; 773:290-300. [PMID: 6329287 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(84)90093-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The isolation of apical membranes from rat proximal colonic epithelial cells is described. Differential centrifugation yielded a 'crude' membrane fraction which was further purified using sucrose density centrifugation. The final membrane fraction was enriched 20-28-fold over homogenate in alkaline phosphatase and cysteine-sensitive alkaline phosphatase specific activities. Lipid-protein interactions and lipid dynamics examined in apical and basolateral membranes prepared from colonocytes demonstrated: (1) apical membrane, as assessed by steady-state fluorescence polarization studies have a low lipid fluidity; (2) colonic basolateral membranes possess a greater lipid fluidity than apical membranes; (3) compositional differences in these antipodal membranes appear to explain these differences in lipid fluidity; (4) fluorescence polarization studies using diphenylhexatriene detect a thermotropic transition at 21-23 degrees C in apical membranes and liposomes prepared from lipid extracts of these membranes; (5) alkaline phosphatase and L-cysteine-sensitive alkaline phosphatase activities appear to be functionally dependent on the physical state of the apical membrane's lipid.
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Galactosyltransferase catalyzes transfer of galactose from UDP-galactose to glucose or N-acetylglucosamine with resultant formation of galactosides and UDP. In this new assay galactosyltransferase activity is measured by determining UDP by isocratic high-performance liquid chromatography on an amino-bonded column monitored spectrophotometrically. Concurrently, unreacted UDP-galactose and breakdown products arising from UDP-galactose (UMP and uridine) are also determined. The new technique does not require radioactive substrates, permits usage of saturating concentrations of UDP-galactose, and provides monitoring of side reactions.
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Brasitus TA, Keresztes RS. Glycoprotein metabolism in rat colonic epithelial cell populations with different proliferative activities. Differentiation 1983; 24:239-44. [PMID: 6628880 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.1983.tb01326.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Epithelial cells with different proliferative activities were isolated from rat proximal and distal colon. The distribution of fucose, hexose, hexosamine, and sialic acid as well as the activities of three glycosyltransferases, eight glycosidases, and a nucleotide sugar pyrophosphatase, enzymes involved in glycoprotein metabolism, were then examined in these cells. The results of the present study demonstrate that: (1) all proximal cell populations appear to possess a higher content of hexose, fucose, and sialic acid than their distal counterparts; (2) in general, the proximal colonic populations have higher glycosyltransferase but similar glycosidase activities than their distal counterparts; (3) proliferative cells in both colonic regions have greater glycosyltransferase and glycosidase activities than non-proliferative cells, although their carbohydrate content is similar. These findings suggest that alterations in glycoprotein metabolism exist during differentiation along the length of the rat colon. Furthermore, these data indicate that certain enzymes involved in glycoprotein metabolism may serve as markers for cellular differentiation in this organ.
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Brasitus TA, Keresztes RS. Isolation and partial characterization of basolateral membranes from rat proximal colonic epithelial cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1983; 728:11-9. [PMID: 6830771 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(83)90431-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The isolation of basolateral membranes from rat proximal colonic epithelial cells is described. Cells were harvested using a technique combining chelation of divalent cations with mechanical dissociation. After homogenization, differential centrifugation yielded a 'crude' membrane fraction which was further purified using sucrose density centrifugation. The final membrane fraction was enriched 10-14-fold over homogenate in ouabain-sensitive sodium-potassium dependent adenosine triphosphatase and ouabain-sensitive potassium-dependent phosphatase specific activities. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of this membrane revealed at least 18 protein bands with molecular weights of 14600-200000. Phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, sphingomyelin, free cholesterol and fatty acids were the major lipid components of this membrane. The predominant fatty acids were palmitic (16:0), oleic (18:1), stearic (18:0) and linoleic (18:2) acid. Membranes and their liposomes were studied, using the lipid soluble fluorophore 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), by steady-state fluorescence polarization. The fluorescence anisotropy was greater in the intact membranes compared to their liposomes, indicating greater fluidity in the liposomes. Compositional studies suggested that the high fluidity of this membrane was due to its low ratios of protein/lipid (w/w), cholesterol/phospholipid (mol/mol), and sphingomyelin/phosphatidylcholine (mol/mol).
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Van den Eijnden DH, Schiphorst WE, Berger EG. Specific detection of N-acetylglucosamine-containing oligosaccharide chains on ovine submaxillary asialomucin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1983; 755:32-9. [PMID: 6402035 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(83)90269-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Human milk beta-N-acetylglucosaminide beta 1 leads to 4-galactosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.38) was used to galactosylate ovine submaxillary asialomucin to saturation. The major [14C]galactosylated product chain was obtained as a reduced oligosaccharide by beta-elimination under reducing conditions. Analysis by Bio-Gel filtration and gas-liquid chromatography indicated that this compound was a tetrasaccharide composed of galactose, N-acetylglucosamine and reduced N-acetylgalactosamine in a molar ratio of 2:0.9:0.8. Periodate oxidation studies before and after mild acid hydrolysis in addition to thin-layer chromatography revealed that the most probable structure of the tetrasaccharide is Gal beta 1 leads to 3([14C]Gal beta 1 leads to 4GlcNAc beta 1 leads to 6)GalNAcol. Thus it appears that Gal beta 1 leads to 3(GlcNAc beta 1 leads to 6)GalNAc units occur as minor chains on the asialomucin. The potential interference of these chains in the assay of alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminylprotein beta 1 leads to 3-galactosyltransferase activity using ovine submaxillary asialomucin as an acceptor can be counteracted by the addition of N-acetylglucosamine.
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Hesford FJ, Berger EG, Van den Eijnden DH. Identification of the product formed by human erythrocyte galactosyltransferase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1981; 659:302-11. [PMID: 6789880 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2744(81)90056-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Sepharose 4B-immobilized desialylated ovine submaxillary mucin was used as an acceptor for galactose transfer from UDP-galactose, catalyzed by a Triton X-100-solubilized galactosyltransferase from human erythrocyte ghosts. The product could be cleaved from the insoluble acceptor substrate by alkaline borohydride treatment and identified on Bio-Gel P-2 as a disaccharide. The nature of the glycosidic bond of the isolated material was elucidated by periodate oxidation/NaB[3H]4 reduction/acid hydrolysis and subsequent identification of the aminopolyol formed as L-threosaminitol. Specific cleavage of the enzymatic product by beta-galactosidase indicated a beta-configuration for incorporated galactose. These data permit classification of the enzyme as UDP-galactose: alpha-D-N-acetylgalactosaminyl-protein beta (1 leads to 3) transferase. Furthermore, in the presence of Triton X-100, the enzyme from normal erythrocytes catalyzed transfer of galactose to the glycan moieties of asialo-agalacto-glycophorin in Tn-erythrocytes from a patient with permanent mixed-field polyagglutinability.
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Weiser MM, Wilson JR. Serum levels of glycosyltransferases and related glycoproteins as indicators of cancer: biological and clinical implications. Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci 1981; 14:189-239. [PMID: 6456133 DOI: 10.3109/10408368109105864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Many studies have suggested that malignant transformation is associated with fundamental changes in the cell surface; similar changes have been described for normal stem cells and cells of embryonic or fetal origin. There is now evidence that the tumor cell secretes or sheds glycoproteins and glycosyltransferases into the surrounding medium and into serum. There are claims that some of these serum glycoproteins and glycosyltransferases are associated with, or specifically related to, the extent of tumor growth and may serve as a cancer marker. A cancer-associated galactosyltransferase isoenzyme (GT-II) has been described and purified. Different isoelectric forms of fucosyltransferase have also been described as indicative of malignancy. The articles to be published in CRC Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences will analyze the evidence for the association of these membrane factors with tumor growth. In order to better understand the possible significance of altered glycoproteins and of increased or different forms of glycosyltransferases during tumor growth, recent data on glycoprotein synthesis will be discussed including the new concepts on the control of glycoprotein synthesis through lipid intermediates. The possible mechanisms whereby malignant transformation could alter glycoprotein synthesis will be discussed with particular emphasis on the significance of these alterations to the biology of the malignant cell. Changes in surface membrane glycoproteins have long been implicated in the ability of a cell to metastasize. Secretion and/or shedding of the cell surface may also be important in the process of metastasis and in altering the host immune response. Detection and the study of these "shed" materials in patients appear to be indicating a new approach to cancer biology detection and therapy.
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Galactosyltransferase from buffalo milk: Further characterization. J Biosci 1980. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02703245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Paone JF, Waalkes TP, Baker RR, Shaper JH. Serum UDP-galactosyl transferase as a potential biomarker for breast carcinoma. J Surg Oncol 1980; 15:59-66. [PMID: 6775160 DOI: 10.1002/jso.2930150110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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UDP-galactose:N-acetylglucosamine galactosyltransferase (GT) is a membrane-bound enzyme active in the biosynthesis of the carbohydrate moiety of glycoproteins and glycolipids. A soluble form of GT, present in human serum, has recently been found to be elevated in the presence of various neoplasms. In this study, GT levels were measured in randomized serum samples obtained from normal controls (group I, n = 49), patients with benign breast disease (group II, n = 46), disease controls (group III, n = 50), patients with primary breast carcinoma (group IV, n = 53), and untreated metastatic breast cancer (group V, n = 23). Although substantial serum GT elevations were observed in individual control patients with active inflammatory or metabolic diseases, the mean GT levels were significantly higher in the groups with breast carcinoma (P < 0.001, 0.001, 0.02; P < 0.001, 0.001, 0.001 for groups IV and V vs groups, 1, II, and III, respectively). Furthermore, when serum GT levels were correlated with the properative clinical stage of breast cancer, significant elevations were found in 14.3% (3/21) of stage I, 66.7% (8/12) of stage II, 78.6% (11/14) of stage III, and 96.5% (28/29) of stage IV patients. These data indicate that serum GT levels are elevated in the presence of breast carcinoma and that the enzyme elevations correlate positively with the clinical stage of disease. Serum GT may be potentially useful in the detection of recurrent breast carcinoma and as a marker of tumor response to therapy for advanced disease.
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Podolsky DK, Weiser MM. Purification of galactosyltransferase “isoenzymes” I and II. Comparison of cancer-associated and normal galactosyltransferase activities. J Biol Chem 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)50684-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Ganzinger U, Moser K. Sialyl transferase activity: a serum enzyme marker in the follow-up of cancer patients. Recent Results Cancer Res 1979; 67:50-5. [PMID: 451323 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-81320-7_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Clinical evaluation of serum sialyl transferase as a diagnostic tool in malignant disease has shown that there is a strong correlation between enzyme activity and extent of tumor tissue. Thus, patients with large tumor masses show higher enzyme activity than patients with small tumors or in remission. Furthermore, the surgical removal of tumor tissue results in a decrease of enzyme activity to the normal range. The values remain low until metastases recur; this is connected with a new increase in enzyme activity. It has also been shown that successful chemotherapy corresponding to tumor reduction is reflected in lower values. We are thus led to believe that sialyl transferase is a relevant diagnostic blood parameter in the follow-up of cancer patients.
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Cartron JP, Andreu G, Cartron J, Bird GW, Salmon C, Gerbal A. Demonstration of T-transferase deficiency in Tn-polyagglutinable blood samples. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1978; 92:111-9. [PMID: 83233 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1978.tb12728.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Berger EG, Kozdrowski I, Weiser MM, van den Eijnden DH, Schiphorst WE. Human serum galactosyltransferase: distinction, separation and product identification of two galactosyltransferase activities. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1978; 90:213-22. [PMID: 710425 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1978.tb12593.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Two different galactosyltransferase activities have been found in normal sera from A and O donors. Galactosyltransferase A incorporated galactose from UDP-Gal into sialic-acid-free ovine submaxillary mucin (asialo-mucin), whereas galactosyltransferase B transferred galactose from UDP-Gal to free N-acetylglucosamine or N-acetylglucosamine-glycoproteins. Specificity, kinetic and stability differences permitted the distinction of the activity of galactosyltransferase A from that of galactosyltransferase B; the only substrate found for galactosyltransferase A was asialo-mucin, whereas galactosyltransferase B showed only low activity towards asialo-mucin and free N-acetyl-galactosamine, but had a main specificity for either free N-acetylglucosamine or N-acetylglucosamine-protein. Galactosyltransferase B was more stable on heat inactivation than galactosyltransferase A; galactosyltransferase B could be separated from galactosyltransferase A by affinity chromatography on N-acetylglucosamine-derivatized agarose. The products of both enzyme activities have been analyzed. The galactosyltransferase A product was cleaved from asialo-mucin by alkaline-borohydride treatment. The acceptor used to identify the galactosyltransferase B product was free N-acetylglucosamine. Periodate oxidation studies performed on the reduced disaccharides indicated the linkage type of the products. The anomeric configuration of the respective galactosyltransferase products were determined with specific galactosidases. Using these methods, galactosyltransferase A was found to form a Galbeta (1 leads to 3)GalNAc-protein linkage and galactosyltransferase B was found to form a Galbeta(1 leads to 4)GlcNAc-linkage.
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Berger EG, Kozdrowski I. Permanent mixed-field polyagglutinable erythrocytes lack galactosyltransferase activity. FEBS Lett 1978; 93:105-8. [PMID: 700105 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(78)80815-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Nagai M, Davè V, Muensch H, Yoshida A. Human blood group glycosyltransferase. II. Purification of galactosyltransferase. J Biol Chem 1978. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38217-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Bella A, Whitehead JS, Kim YS. Human plasma uridine diphosphate galactose-glycoprotein galactosyltransfertase. Purification, properties and kinetics of the enzyme-catalysed reaction. Biochem J 1977; 167:621-8. [PMID: 414742 PMCID: PMC1183708 DOI: 10.1042/bj1670621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The soluble galactosyltransferase of human plasma catalysed the transfer of galactose from UDP-galactose to high- and low-molecular-weight derivatives of N-acetylglucosamine, forming a beta-1-4 linkage. The enzyme was purified by using (NH4)2SO4 precipitation and affinity chromatography on an alpha-lactalbumin-Sepharose column. The galactosyltransferase was maximally bound to this column in the presence of N-acetylglucosamine, and the enzyme was eluted by omitting the amino sugar from the developing buffer. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be 85000 by gel filtration. The assay conditions for optimum enzymic activity was 30 degrees C and pH7.5. Mn2+ ion was found to be an absolute requirement for transferase activity. The Km for Mn2+ was 0.4 mM and that for the substrate, UDP-galactose, was 0.024 mM. The Km for the acceptors was 0.21 mM for alpha1-acid glycoprotein and 3.9 mM for N-acetylglucosamine. In the presence of alpha-lactalbumin, glucose became a good acceptor for the enzyme and had a Km value of 2.9 mM. Results of the kinetic study indicated that the free enzyme reacts with Mn2+ under conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium, and the other substrates are added sequentially.
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Lee LP, Prasad A, Bolton KJ, McKendry JB, Hynie I. Serum UDP-galactose: glycoprotein galactosyltransferase in diabetics with microangiopathy. Clin Biochem 1977; 10:111-7. [PMID: 69506 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9120(77)91508-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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1. Levels of serum UDP-galactose:glycoprotein galactosyltransferase in 117 unselected diabetics were compared with those in 60 non-diabetic healthy controls. 2. Enzyme activity (mean +/- 2 S.D.) of control sera was found to be 90.2 +/- 21.5 etamoles/ml/hr at 37 degrees. In 30 of the 117 diabetic sera (26%) enzyme activity was elevated (greater than mean + 2 S.D. of the controls). Sixteen of 19 (84%) patients with retinopathy, 16 of 26 (62%) patients with peripheral vasculopathy and 13 of 26 (50%) patients with neuropathy had higher levels of serum enzyme. When serum enzyme levels of groups of diabetics with retinopathy, peripheral vasculopathy and neuropathy were compared with the enzyme level in all diabetics, there was a significant difference with p values of 0.001, 0.05 and 0.05 respectively.
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Podolsky DK, Weiser MM, Westwood JC, Gammon M. Cancer-associated serum galactosyltransferase activity. Demonstration in an animal model system. J Biol Chem 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)40622-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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LaMont JT, Gammon MT, Isselbacher KJ. Cell-surface glycosyltransferases in cultured fibroblasts: increased activity and release during serum stimulation of growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1977; 74:1086-90. [PMID: 191828 PMCID: PMC430600 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.74.3.1086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Cell-surface galactosyltransferase was studied in suspensions of intact baby hamster kidney fibroblasts with both endogenous and exogenous glycoprotein acceptors. The cell-surface location of galactosyltransferase was demonstrated in experiments with the enzyme modifier alpha-lactalbumin, which does not enter the cell. The addition of alpha-lactalbumin to the assay medium for galactosyltransferase resulted in accumulation of lactose in the medium but not in the cells. There was no detectable hydrolysis of UDP-galactose to free galactose by these cells, nor did a 100-fold molar excess of free galactose inhibit cell-surface galactosyltransferase. There was a marked increase in specific activity of cell-surface exogenous galactosyltransferase in serum-stimulated as compared to resting fibroblasts. Dividing but not resting fibroblasts released galactosyltransferase, but not sialyl- or fucosyltransferase, in soluble form into the tissue culture medium. The release of galactosyltransferase was greater from virally transformed than from nontransformed fibroblasts.
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Morel E, Achy-Sachot N, Spik G, Montreuil J. Characterization of glycoprotein--galactosyltransferase activity in ascitic fluid of Balb/C-YC8 mice. FEBS Lett 1976; 69:171-4. [PMID: 11124 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(76)80679-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Whitehead JS, Remer L, Kim YS. Isolation and characterization of three unusual membrane glycopeptides present in rat intestinal endoplasmic reticula. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1976; 437:384-93. [PMID: 952924 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(76)90008-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Three glycopeptides have been isolated from the mucosal homogenates of the rat small intestine without using proteolysis. These glycopeptides appear to be localized exclusively in the membranes of the endoplasmic reticula. Although they have similar molecular weights of about 2550 and have similar amino acid compositions, they differ in the carbohydrate constituents. The major glycopeptide has 2 mol glucose per polypeptide chain while the two other glycopeptides contain 1 mol fucose, mannose and galactose with either 1 or 2 mol glucose. No hexosamine or sialic acid was detected in any of the glycopeptides. An unusual physical property was found associated with these glycopeptides. Below pH 6.5 they formed a precipitate which prevented them from diffusing through a dialysis membrane and allowed them to be rapidly purified following solubilization from the membrane. These glycopeptides appear to represent a new group of heretofore uncharacterized membrane constitutents which may play a role in some function specific for the endoplasmic reticula.
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Fraser IH, Mookerjea S. Studies on the purification and properties of UDP-galactose glycoprotein galactosyltransferase from rat liver and serum. Biochem J 1976; 156:347-55. [PMID: 821479 PMCID: PMC1163755 DOI: 10.1042/bj1560347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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1. Rat liver microsomal preparations incubated with 200mM-NaCl at either 0 or 30 degrees C released about 20-30% of the membrane-bound UDP-galactose-glycoprotein galactosyl-transferase (EC 2.4.1.22) into a 'high-speed' supernatant. The 'high-speed' supernatant was designated the 'saline wash' and the galactosyltransferase released into this fraction required Triton X-100 for activation. It was purified sixfold by chromatography on Sephadex G-200, and appeared to have a higher molecular weight than the soluble serum enzyme. 2. Rat serum galactosyltransferase was purified 6000-7000-fold by an affinity-chromatographic technique using a column of activated Sepharose 4B coupled with alpha-lactalbumin. The purified enzyme ran as a single broad band on polacrylamide gels and contained no sialytransferase, N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase and UDP-galactose pyrophosphatase activities. 3. The highly purified enzyme had properties similar to those of both soluble and membrane-bound galactosyltransferase. It required 0.1% Triton X-100 for stabilization, but lost activity on freezing. The enzyme had an absolute requirement for Mn2+, not replaceable by Ca2+, Mg2+, Zn2+ or Co2+. It was active over a wide pH range (6-8) and had a pH optimum of 6.8. The apparent Km for UDP-galactose was 12.5 x 10(-6) M. Alpha-Lactalbumin had no appreciable effect on UDP-galactose-glycoprotein galactosyltransferase, but it increased the specificity for glucose rather than for N-acetylglucosamine, thus modifying the enzyme to a lactose synthetase. 4. The possibility of a conversion of higher-molecular-weight liver enzyme into soluble serum enzyme is discussed, especially in relation to the elevated activities of this and other glycosyltransferases in patients with liver diseases.
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