title: Lack of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchoring leads to precursor retention by a unique mechanism in Dictyostelium discoideum.
abstract: Gp80, a cell-adhesion molecule in Dictyostelium discoideum, is modified by N- and O-linked oligosaccharides, and a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor. To identify sequences important for the addition of these modifications to gp80, we created a hybrid protein in which the C-terminal 136 amino acids of yeast invertase were replaced by the C-terminal 110 amino acids of gp80. When expressed in D. discoideum, this protein (Inv-gp80) was not GPI-anchored and was retained in a pre-Golgi compartment. Inv-gp80 did, however, display characteristics of a transmembrane protein, suggesting a novel mechanism for its retention. We also expressed a truncated version of the hybrid protein in which the C-terminal 22 amino acids of the Inv-gp80 were deleted. The truncated protein (Inv-gp80stop) was O-glycosylated and secreted. These observations indicate that the hybrid protein is not abnormally folded and demonstrate the importance of the C-terminal 22 amino acids in the retention of Inv-gp80. Together, the data suggest that oligomerization of the protein blocks its GPI anchoring.
authors.affiliation: E.A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, MO 63104.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Pauly
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000378:metabolism*; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins