title: Marked cell-type-specific differences in glycosylation of human interleukin-6.
abstract: Human interleukin-6 (IL-6) secreted by cytokine- or endotoxin-induced fibroblasts, monocytes, keratinocytes, endometrial stromal cells, and endothelial cells, when analyzed under denaturing and reducing conditions, consists of a set of differentially modified phosphoglycoproteins of molecular mass in the range from 23 to 30 kD (a set of at least three O-glycosylated 23- to 25-kD species and a set of at least three N- and O-glycosylated 28- to 30-kD species). The 23- to 25-kD and 28- to 30-kD fibroblast-derived IL-6 species have been separately purified to homogeneity with the use of a combination of lectin and immunoaffinity chromatography. Glycosidase digestion experiments on such purified preparations confirmed that almost all human fibroblast-derived IL-6 species were O-glycosylated; additionally, the 28- to 30-kD species were N-glycosylated. Amino acid sequencing revealed that the major amino terminus in the fibroblast-derived 23- to 25-kD O-glycosylated IL-6 was at Ala28 whereas the major amino terminus in the 28- to 30-kD N- and O-glycosylated IL-6 was at Val30, suggesting that targeting of newly synthesized IL-6 polypeptides into the two different processing pathways in fibroblasts may be keyed to differences in the signal peptide cleavage site. Unexpectedly, IL-6 "constitutively" secreted by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-infected human and primate (tamarin) B-cell lines designated sfBJAB and sfBT, respectively, consisted of a major apparently unglycosylated 21-kD species and a minor 25-kD N-glycosylated species.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021.
authors.forename: L T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Khanna
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Zabriskie
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Sehgal
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002460:Cell Line; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000276:immunology; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D006031:Glycosylation; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D015850:Interleukin-6; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases