title: Changes of beta-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase III (GnT-III) in patients with leukaemia.
abstract: Changes in the activity and transcription of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine: beta-D-mannoside beta-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyl-transferase III (GnT-III: EC 2.4.1.144) were investigated in haematological malignancies. GnT-III activity was elevated in patients with chronic myelogeneous leukaemia in blast crisis (CML-BC) and patients with multiple myeloma (MM); whereas most of the normal healthy subjects and patients with other haematological malignancies, including CML in its chronic phase, showed negligible activity. The GnT-III transcript of leukaemic cells from various haematological diseases showed a single band with a similar size. The ratio of GnT-III activity per normalized transcript in CML-BC was considerably higher than in the other conditions, which provided the possibility that in CML-BC the transcript or the enzyme protein might be more stable, or that a post-translational modification of the enzyme might enhance its activity. Furthermore, a lectin blot analysis of patient specimens and a lectin fluorescence study of CML cell lines revealed that E4-PHA binding to surface glycoproteins correlated with GnT-III activity, indicating that more bisecting GlcNAc was added to these glycoproteins, catalysed by elevated GnT-III in CML-BC.
mesh_terms: D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D037102:Lectins; D007938:Leukemia / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D037102:Lectins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases; C054599:beta-1,4-mannosyl-glycoprotein beta-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase