title: Microheterogeneity in glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor structures of bovine liver 5'-nucleotidase.
abstract: In our study, 5'-nucleotidase was released from bovine liver by the treatment with Bacillus thuringiensis phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C and purified to a homogeneous state by concanavalin A-Sepharose and (diethylaminoethyl)-Toyopearl column chromatography and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Purified 5'-nucleotidase were then cleaved by cyanogen bromide (CNBr), and then inositol phosphoglycan-containing C-terminal peptides (IPG peptides) were separated by C18 reverse-phase liquid chromatography and analyzed by peptide sequencer, amino acid analyzer, gas chromatography (GC), and GC-mass spectrometry (MS). Ser523 of the amino acid sequence deduced from 5'-nucleotidase cDNA [Suzuki et al. (1993) J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 113, 607-613] is revealed to be the C-terminal amino acid to which a glycosylphosphatidylinositol is anchored. Separated peaks of CNBr-cleaved IPG peptides were then analyzed by electron spray ionization (ESI)-MS. Eight different molecular weight (MW) species of CNBr-cleaved IPG peptides were detected. Three fractions of CNBr-cleaved IPG peptides were separately treated by trypsin, and trypsinized IPG peptides were purified by C18 reverse-phase liquid chromatography. Finally, five different MW species of trypsinized IPG peptides (1629.4, 1752.7, 1791.8, 1832.8, and 1994.5) were detected by ESI-MS. Together with sequential exoglycosidase treatment and quantitative analysis of sugar moieties by GC and GC-MS, microheterogeneity in the structures of these five glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor species was determined. The common core structure was ethanolamine phosphate-mannose-mannose-mannose(-ethanolamine phosphate)-glucosamine-myoinositol phosphate. Variations observed in additional mannose, N-acetylhexosamine, and ethanolamine phosphate moieties form this heterogeneity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Aichi, Japan.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hamakawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harada-Nishida
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukui
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nojima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ikezawa
mesh_terms: D015720:5'-Nucleotidase / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000032:analysis; D002417:Cattle; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols / Q000737:chemistry*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D054801:Phosphoinositide Phospholipase C; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry; D017421:Sequence Analysis
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D002241:Carbohydrates; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols; D010455:Peptides; D015720:5'-Nucleotidase; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases; D054801:Phosphoinositide Phospholipase C; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide