title: Site-specific O-glycosylation of human granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor secreted by yeast and animal cells.
abstract: To compare the site specificity of O-glycosylation in lower and higher eukaryotes, we expressed human granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in COS-1 cells. Analyses of specific hGM-CSF mutants secreted by yeast led to the conclusion that efficient O-glycosylation in yeast requires residues S9 and T10. However, only S9 is used as an attachment point for an extended O-glycosyl chain in a 15.5-kDa hGM-CSF form. A 14.5-kDa hGM-CSF form, secreted by yeast, appears substituted by single mannosyl residues at both positions S9 and T10, indicating that O-glycosylation at T10 inhibits extension of the O-glycosyl chain attached to S9. As in yeast cells, the addition of O-glycosyl chains to hGM-CSF secreted by COS-1 cells requires the presence of S9 and T10 residues. These results demonstrate that, inspite of different biosynthetic routes, the selection of O-glycosylation sites is similar between lower and higher eukaryotes.
authors.affiliation: Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Mermod
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Richman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002460:Cell Line; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006031:Glycosylation; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor