Glycobiology, Vol 8, 191-198, Copyright © 1998 by Society for Glycobiology
L Medina and RS Haltiwanger
Over the past decade, there have been many reports suggesting the presence
of complex carbohydrates on nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins in mammalian
cells. Some of the most often cited of these reports deal with the
glycosylation of the high mobility group (HMG) proteins. These are
relatively abundant chromosomal proteins that are known to be associated
with nucleosomes and actively transcribed regions of chromatin. The
original report describing HMG protein glycosylation presented several
lines of evidence suggesting that these proteins are glycosylated,
including carbohydrate compositional analysis and periodic-acid Schiff
staining. We have attempted to repeat these observations with more highly
purified protein than was utilized in the original study. Using
carbohydrate compositional analysis performed by high pH anion exchange
chromatography coupled to pulsed-amperometric detection, we saw no evidence
for significant glycosylation of these proteins. In addition, we found no
evidence for the presence of O- GlcNAc, a well known form of nuclear
glycosylation. The HMG proteins did react with periodate, suggesting the
presence of a modification containing cis-diols on the protein. Several
tryptic peptides isolated from HMG 14 and 17 which retained the periodate
reactivity had in common lysine residues, suggesting a potential
modification of the straightepsilon-amino groups of lysines such as
nonenzymatic glycation. Western blot analysis of the HMG proteins using
anti-advanced glycation endproducts (AGE) antibodies confirmed the presence
of glycation products on the HMG proteins.
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Calf thymus high mobility group proteins are nonenzymatically glycated but not significantly glycosylated
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Developmental Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-5215, USA.
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