title: Stepwise assembly of the lipid-linked oligosaccharide in the endoplasmic reticulum of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: identification of the ALG9 gene encoding a putative mannosyl transferase.
abstract: The core oligosaccharide Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 is assembled at the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum on the lipid carrier dolichyl pyrophosphate and transferred to selected asparagine residues of nascent polypeptide chains. This transfer is catalyzed by the oligosaccharyl transferase complex. Based on the synthetic phenotype of the oligosaccharyl transferase mutation wbp1 in combination with a deficiency in the assembly pathway of the oligosaccharide in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we have identified the novel ALG9 gene. We conclude that this locus encodes a putative mannosyl transferase because deletion of the gene led to accumulation of lipid-linked Man6GlcNAc2 in vivo and to hypoglycosylation of secreted proteins. Using an approach combining genetic and biochemical techniques, we show that the assembly of the lipid-linked core oligosaccharide in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum occurs in a stepwise fashion.
authors.affiliation: Mikrobiologisches Institut, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: te Heesen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brachat
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wach
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Düsterhöft
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aebi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D005838:Genotype; D006031:Glycosylation; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008364:Mannosyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; C023023:lipid-linked oligosaccharides; D008364:Mannosyltransferases