title: Processing of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides in insect cells. N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I and II activities in cultured lepidopteran cells.
abstract: The levels of beta 1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GlcNAc-T) I and II activities in cultured cells from Bombyx mori (Bm-N), Mamestra brassicae (IZD-Mb-0503) and Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf-9 and Sf-21) were investigated. Apart from initial experiments with Man alpha-3(Man alpha 1-6)-Man beta 1-O(CH2)8COOH3 and 3H-labelled UDP-GlcNAc as substrates, GlcNAc-T I activity was measured with a non-radioactive HPLC method using pyridylaminated Man3-GlcNAc2 and Man5GlcNAc2 as acceptor oligosaccharides. It was shown by reversed-phase HPLC, exoglycosidase digestion and methylation analysis that the product obtained with Man3GlcNAc2 contained a terminal GlcNAc residue linked beta 1,2 to the alpha 1,3 arm of the acceptor. Compared to the enzyme from the human hepatoma cell line HepG2, insect cell GlcNAc-T I exhibited a much higher preference for the Man5 substrate. The GlcNAc-T I from Mb-0503 cells had apparent Km and Vmax values for pyridylaminated Man3- and Man5GlcNAc2 of 2.15 and 0.21 mM, and of 3.4 and 11.4 nmol/h/mg of cell protein, respectively. When Man5GlcNAc2 was used as the acceptor substrate, the levels of GlcNAc-T I activity in the four insect cell lines ranged between 7.5 and 14.7 nmol/h/mg of cell protein, and thus were comparable to that of HepG2 cells. Evidence is presented for the dependence of lepidopteran fucosyltransferase on the presence of terminal N-acetylglucosamine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Institut für Chemie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Austria.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Altmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kornfeld
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dalik
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Staudacher
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Glössl
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001216:Asparagine / Q000378:metabolism*; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000502:physiology; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005647:Fucosyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009036:Moths; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides; D001216:Asparagine; D005647:Fucosyltransferases; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases; C037649:N-acetyllactosaminide beta-1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase