Glycobiology vol 1 no 2 pp. 155-161, 1991
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The UDP-Glc:glycoprotein glucosyltrasferase is a soluble protein of the endoplasmic reticulum
Instituto de Investigaciones Bioqímics Fundación Campomar Antonio Machado 151, (1405) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Received on August 6, 1990; accepted on October 3, 1990
N-linked oligosaccharides devoid of glucose residues are transiently glucosylated directly from UDP-Glc in the endoplasmic reticulum. The reaction products have been identified, depending on the organisms, as protein-linked Glc1Man5–9GlcNAc2. Incubation of right side-sealed vesicles from rat liver with UDP-[14C]Glc, Ca2+ ions and denatured thyroglobulin led to the glucosylation of the macromolecule only when the vesicles had been disrupted previously by sonication or by the addition of detergents to the glucosylation mixture. Similarly, maximal glucosylation of denatured thyroglobulin required disruption of microsomal vesicles isolated from the protozoan Crithidia fasciculata. Treatment of the rat liver vesicles with trypsin led to the inactivation of the UDP-Glc:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase only when proteolysis was performed in the presence of detergents. The glycoprotein glucosylating activity could be solubilized upon sonication of right side-sealed vesicles in an isotonic medium, upon passage of them through a French press or by suspending the vesicles in an hypotonic medium. Moreover, the enzyme appeared in the aqueous phase when the vesicles were submitted to a Triton X-114/water partition. Solubilization was not due to proteolysis of a membranebound enzyme. The enzyme could also be solubilized from C. fasciculata microsomal vesicles by procedures not involving membrane disassembly. About 30% of endogenous glycoproteins glucosylated upon incubation of intact rat liver microsomal vesicles with UDP-[14C]Glc could be solubilized by sonication or by suspending the vesicles in 0.1 M Na2CO3. These and previous results show that the UDP-Glc:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase is a soluble protein present in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum. In addition, both soluble and membrane-bound glycoproteins may be glucosylated by the glycoprotein glucosylating activity.
glycoprotein glucosylation subcellular localization oligosaccharide processing
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