N-Glycosylation affects endoplasmic reticulum degradation of a mutated derivative of carboxypeptidase yscY in yeast.
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of eukaryotic cells contains a quality control system, that is required for the proteolytic removal of aberrantly folded proteins that accumulate in this organelle. We used genetic and biochemical methods to analyse the involvement of N-glycosylation in the degradation of a mutant derivative of carboxypeptidase yscY in the ER of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our results demonstrate that N-glycosylation of this protein is required for its degradation since an unglycosylated species is retained stably in the ER. Cells that were devoid of the ER-processing alpha 1,2-mannosidase showed reduced degradation of the glycosylated substrate protein. Disruption of CNE1, a gene encoding a putative yeast homologue for calnexin, did not exhibit any effects on the degradation of this substrate protein in vivo. Also, the alpha 1,2-mannosidase-dependent reduction in the degradation rate did not show any correlation with the function of the CNE1 gene product. Our results suggest that the ER of yeast contains a glycosylation-dependent quality control system, as has been shown for higher eukaryotic cells.
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Institut fuer Biochemie, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany.
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D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D037281:Calnexin; D002268:Carboxypeptidases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D043402:Cathepsin A; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000201:enzymology*; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006031:Glycosylation; D008361:Mannosidases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D017510:Protein Folding; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D037281:Calnexin; D008361:Mannosidases; C046090:mannosyl-oligosaccharide 1,2-alpha-mannosidase; D002268:Carboxypeptidases; D043402:Cathepsin A; C499283:PRC1 protein, S cerevisiae; C022633:serine carboxypeptidase