title: Evidence for the glycosylation of the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor.
abstract: The granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor (G-CSFR) was overexpressed in WEHI-3B D+ myelomonocytic leukemia cells by the transfection of an expression plasmid containing the murine G-CSFR cDNA. Two different forms of the G-CSFR were observed in these cells by western blotting. Metabolic labeling and cell surface labeling demonstrated that the majority of the G-CSFR exists in a non-mature form and is presumably present in the cytoplasm as a 115-kDa protein. A relatively small portion of the G-CSFR is present as the fully mature form on the cell surface as a 150-kDa protein; this form of the G-CSFR binds to granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). Both the mature and non-mature forms of the G-CSFR appear to be N-glycosylated, as determined by glycanase digestion and inhibition of glycosylation by tunicamycin. Glycosylation of the G-CSFR may be of importance for the transport of the receptor to the cell surface.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Sartorelli
mesh_terms: D001345:Autoradiography; D001692:Biological Transport; D006031:Glycosylation; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D016188:Receptors, Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D016188:Receptors, Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor