Affiliation:
1. Departments of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Joslin Diabetes Center, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.
Abstract
Rat liver Golgi membranes were found to contain an enzyme that can transfer sulphate from 3´-phosphoadenosine 5´-phosphosulphate (PAPS) to C-6 of the terminal GlcNAc in β-linkage to mannose and has properties indicating that it is involved in the synthesis of the NeuAcα2-3(6)Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6-SO4) sequences observed in the N-linked carbohydrate units of various glycoproteins. Assays performed with [35S]PAPS (Km 0.67 µM) and GlcNAcβ1-6Manα1-O-Me (GnMaMe) acceptor (Km 0.71 mM) indicated that the sulphotransferase had a pH optimum of approx. 7.0 and is markedly stimulated by Mn2+ ions (maximum approx. 15 mM) and Triton X-100 (0.05-0.1%). Hydrazine/nitrous acid/NaBH4 treatment of the 35S-labelled product yielded radiolabelled 2,5-anhydromannitol(6-SO4). The sulphated GnMaMe product of the GlcNAc-6-O-sulphotransferase could be galactosylated by a rat liver Golgi enzyme that was shown to have the same properties as the UDP-Gal:GlcNAc β-1,4-galactosyltransferase from bovine milk. Competition studies performed with GlcNAc and GlcNAc-6-SO4 furthermore indicated that the same liver enzyme acted on both acceptors to produce Galβ1-4GlcNAc and Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6-SO4) with Km values of 1.04 and 1.68 mM respectively. Because the sulphated N-acetyl-lactosamine could in turn serve as an acceptor for rat liver sialyltransferase, it seems that this enzyme, together with the Golgi galactosyltransferase and the GlcNAc-6-O-sulphotransferase, could act in concert in assembling the NeuAcα2-3(6)Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6-SO4) branches of complex N-linked oligosaccharides.
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry
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