title: Transglycosylation activity of Mucor hiemalis endo-beta-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase which transfers complex oligosaccharides to the N-acetylglucosamine moieties of peptides.
abstract: A novel endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase in the culture fluid of Mucor hiemalis isolated from soil was found to have transglycosylation activity. This endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase, Endo-M, could liberate the complex type of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides by hydrolysis of diacetylchitobiose linkage from glycoproteins. The treatment of Endo-M with N-acetyl-glucosamine and asialotransferrin glycopeptide having the complex type of oligosaccharides resulted in the transfer of the released oligosaccharide from the glycopeptide to N-acetyl-glucosamine. The structure of the product after transfer was deduced to be (GlcNAc)2-Man-(Gal-GlcNAc-Man)2 by a combination method of pyridylamination and high performance liquid chromatography, and mass-spectrometry. The enzyme could transfer the complex type of oligosaccharide from asialotransferrin glycopeptide to bovine ribonuclease with the high-mannose type of oligosaccharide. This will lead to the construction of neoglycoproteins containing different types of oligosaccharides.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kadowaki
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kumagai
mesh_terms: D000117:Acetylglucosamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D001212:Asialoglycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D006020:Glycopeptides / Q000378:metabolism*; D006031:Glycosylation; D006801:Humans; D017038:Mannosyl-Glycoprotein Endo-beta-N-Acetylglucosaminidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009089:Mucor / Q000201:enzymology*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014168:Transferrin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001212:Asialoglycoproteins; D006020:Glycopeptides; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D014168:Transferrin; C017031:asialotransferrins; D017038:Mannosyl-Glycoprotein Endo-beta-N-Acetylglucosaminidase; D000117:Acetylglucosamine