title: Biosynthesis of lipid-linked oligosaccharides. Isolation and structure of a second lipid-linked oligosaccharide in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
abstract: Previous work has shown that vesicular stomatitis virus-infected Chinese hamster ovary cells contain a major high molecular weight lipid-linked oligosaccharide which is transferred en bloc to protein during the formation of the asparagine-linked complex-type oligosaccharides of the vesicular stomatitis virus G protein (Tabas, I., Schlesinger, S., and Kornfeld, S. (1978) J. Biol. Chem. 253, 716-722). We now report the characterization of a second, lower molecular weight lipid-linked oligosaccharide. The oligosaccharide portion of this molecule was isolated and its structure was determined by methylation analysis, digestion with exoglycosidases, acetolysis and Smith periodate degradation to be: (formula: see text). Several lines of evidence are presented which indicate that this lipid-linked oligosaccharide is primarily involved in the assembly of the major lipid-linked oligosaccharide rather than in the direct glycosylation of proteins.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D006224:Cricetinae; D005260:Female; D005944:Glucosamine / Q000378:metabolism; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008358:Mannose / Q000378:metabolism; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D010053:Ovary; D014721:Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides; D005944:Glucosamine; D008358:Mannose