title: A testis-specific regulator of complex and hybrid N-glycan synthesis.
abstract: Database analyses identified 4933434I20Rik as a glycosyltransferase-like gene expressed mainly in testicular germ cells and regulated during spermatogenesis. Expression of a membrane-bound form of the protein resulted in a marked and specific reduction in N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GlcNAcT-I) activity and complex and hybrid N-glycan synthesis. Thus, the novel activity was termed GlcNAcT-I inhibitory protein (GnT1IP). Membrane-bound GnT1IP localizes to the ER, the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC), and the cis-Golgi. Coexpression of membrane-anchored GnT1IP with GlcNAcT-I causes association of the two proteins, inactivation of GlcNAcT-I, and mislocalization of GlcNAcT-I from the medial-Golgi to earlier compartments. Therefore, GnT1IP is a regulator of GlcNAcT-I and complex and hybrid N-glycan production. Importantly, the formation of high mannose N-glycans resulting from inhibition of GlcNAcT-I by GnT1IP markedly increases the adhesion of CHO cells to TM4 Sertoli cells. Testicular germ cells might use GnT1IP to induce the expression of high mannose N-glycans on glycoproteins, thereby facilitating Sertoli-germ cell attachment at a particular stage of spermatogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10461, USA.
authors.forename: Hung-Hsiang
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stanley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016466:CHO Cells; D002678:Chimera / Q000378:metabolism; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus / Q000378:metabolism; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008358:Mannose / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D012708:Sertoli Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D013091:Spermatogenesis; D013737:Testis / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D011134:Polysaccharides; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases; C024850:alpha-1,3-mannosyl-glycoprotein beta-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I; C037649:N-acetyllactosaminide beta-1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase; D008358:Mannose
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