Role of Carbohydrate Moiety in Carboxypeptidase Y: Structural Study of Mutant Enzyme Lacking Carbohydrate Moiety

1999 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki SHIMIZU ◽  
Hiroshi UENO ◽  
Rikimaru HAYASHI
Genetics ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 833-841
Author(s):  
Yu Jiang ◽  
Al Scarpa ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Shelly Stone ◽  
Ed Feliciano ◽  
...  

Abstract The BET3 gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a 22-kD hydrophilic protein that is required for vesicular transport between the ER and Golgi complex. To gain insight into the role of Bet3p, we screened for genes that suppress the growth defect of the temperature-sensitive bet3 mutant at 34°. This high copy suppressor screen resulted in the isolation of a new gene, called BET5. BET5 encodes an essential 18-kD hydrophilic protein that in high copy allows growth of the bet3-1 mutant, but not other ER accumulating mutants. This strong and specific suppression is consistent with the fact that Bet3p and Bet5p are members of the same complex. Using PCR mutagenesis, we generated a temperature-sensitive mutation in BET5 (bet5-1) that blocks the transport of carboxypeptidase Y to the vacuole and prevents secretion of the yeast pheromone α-factor at 37°. The precursor forms of these proteins that accumulate in this mutant are indicative of a block in membrane traffic between the ER and Golgi apparatus. High copy suppressors of the bet5-1 mutant include several genes whose products are required for ER-to-Golgi transport (BET1, SEC22, USO1 and DSS4) and the maintenance of the Golgi (ANP1). These findings support the hypothesis that Bet5p acts in conjunction with Bet3p to mediate a late stage in ER-to-Golgi transport. The identification of mammalian homologues of Bet3p and Bet5p implies that the Bet3p/Bet5p complex is highly conserved in evolution.


1998 ◽  
Vol 143 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Silberstein ◽  
Gabriel Schlenstedt ◽  
Pam A. Silver ◽  
Reid Gilmore

Members of the eukaryotic heat shock protein 70 family (Hsp70s) are regulated by protein cofactors that contain domains homologous to bacterial DnaJ. Of the three DnaJ homologues in the yeast rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER; Scj1p, Sec63p, and Jem1p), Scj1p is most closely related to DnaJ, hence it is a probable cofactor for Kar2p, the major Hsp70 in the yeast RER. However, the physiological role of Scj1p has remained obscure due to the lack of an obvious defect in Kar2p-mediated pathways in scj1 null mutants. Here, we show that the Δscj1 mutant is hypersensitive to tunicamycin or mutations that reduce N-linked glycosylation of proteins. Although maturation of glycosylated carboxypeptidase Y occurs with wild-type kinetics in Δscj1 cells, the transport rate for an unglycosylated mutant carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) is markedly reduced. Loss of Scj1p induces the unfolded protein response pathway, and results in a cell wall defect when combined with an oligosaccharyltransferase mutation. The combined loss of both Scj1p and Jem1p exaggerates the sensitivity to hypoglycosylation stress, leads to further induction of the unfolded protein response pathway, and drastically delays maturation of an unglycosylated reporter protein in the RER. We propose that the major role for Scj1p is to cooperate with Kar2p to mediate maturation of proteins in the RER lumen.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Makino ◽  
Takehiko Sahara ◽  
Naoki Morita ◽  
Hiroshi Ueno

1995 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1259-1262 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Rouzière ◽  
S. Ravy ◽  
J.P. Pouget

1987 ◽  
Vol 166 (5) ◽  
pp. 1329-1350 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Barbosa ◽  
J Santos-Aguado ◽  
S J Mentzer ◽  
J L Strominger ◽  
S J Burakoff ◽  
...  

We have investigated the role of the carbohydrate moiety on the HLA-B7 molecule in mAb and CTL recognition using oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis and gene transfer techniques. A conservative substitution of asparagine to glutamine at amino acid 86 in HLA-B7 was created to abolish the unique glycosylation site present on all HLA molecules. A second mutant B7 molecule was made by substituting asparagine-aspartic acid-threonine for the resident lysine-aspartic acid/lysine tripeptide at amino acids 176-178, thus creating an N-linked glycan at amino acid 176, which is additionally present on all known murine H-2 class I antigens. Upon gene transfer into mouse and human cell recipients, the HLA-B7M176+ mutant and normal HLA-B7 expressed identical levels of surface protein. However, the binding of two mAbs (MB40.2 and MB40.3) thought to recognize different epitopes of the HLA-B7 molecule was completely eliminated. In contrast, the HLA-B7M86- mutant displayed no surface expression (mouse L cells) or minimal surface expression (human RD cells or mouse L cells coexpressing human beta 2 microglobulin [beta 2m]) after indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) and flow cytometric analysis with a panel of 12 HLA-B7 mAb reactive with monomorphic and polymorphic determinants. Immunoprecipitation analysis demonstrated that intracellular denatured mutant protein was present. Tunicamycin treatment did not rescue the expression of HLA-B7M86- antigens to the cell surface; while interferon did induce higher levels of surface expression. Tunicamycin treatment also did not allow binding of the mAbs MB40.2 or MB40.3 to HLA-B7M176+ mutant antigens, suggesting that the carbohydrate moiety itself was not directly involved in the recognition or conformation of these mAb epitopes. Further mutation of the B7M86- molecule to create a glycan moiety at amino acid position 176 (B7M86-/176+) did not rescue normal levels of surface expression. Finally, neither mutation was seen to affect recognition by a panel of 12 allospecific CTL clones. The low expression of HLA-B7M86- on the surface of human cell transfectants was sufficient to achieve lysis, albeit at a reduced efficiency, and lysis could be increased by interferon induction of higher levels of expression. Thus, the carbohydrate moiety on HLA antigens plays a minimal or nonexistent role in recognition by available mAb and allospecific CTL clones.


2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 2327-2338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Curwin ◽  
Julia von Blume ◽  
Vivek Malhotra

The mechanism of cargo sorting at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) for secretion is poorly understood. We previously reported the involvement of the actin-severing protein cofilin and the Ca2+ ATPase secretory pathway calcium ATPase 1 (SPCA1) in the sorting of soluble secretory cargo at the TGN in mammalian cells. Now we report that cofilin in yeast is required for export of selective secretory cargo at the late Golgi membranes. In cofilin mutant (cof1-8) cells, the cell wall protein Bgl2 was secreted at a reduced rate and retained in a late Golgi compartment, whereas the plasma membrane H+ ATPase Pma1, which is transported in the same class of carriers, reached the cell surface. In addition, sorting of carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) to the vacuole was delayed, and CPY was secreted from cof1-8 cells. Loss of the yeast orthologue of SPCA1 (Pmr1) exhibited similar sorting defects and displayed synthetic sickness with cof1-8. In addition, overexpression of PMR1 restored Bgl2 secretion in cof1-8 cells. These findings highlight the conserved role of cofilin and SPCA1/Pmr1 in sorting of the soluble secretory proteins at the TGN/late Golgi membranes in eukaryotes.


1995 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masatoshi Goto ◽  
Eiji Kuwano ◽  
Werasit Kanlayakrit ◽  
Shinsaku Hayashida

1997 ◽  
Vol 327 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junutula Reddy JAGATH ◽  
Naropantul APPAJI RAO ◽  
Handanahal SubbaRao SAVITHRI

In an attempt to identify the arginine residue involved in binding of the carboxylate group of serine to mammalian serine hydroxymethyltransferase, a highly conserved Arg-401 was mutated to Ala by site-directed mutagenesis. The mutant enzyme had a characteristic visible absorbance at 425 nm indicative of the presence of bound pyridoxal 5ʹ-phosphate as an internal aldimine with a lysine residue. However, it had only 0.003% of the catalytic activity of the wild-type enzyme. It was also unable to perform reactions with glycine, β-phenylserine or D-alanine, suggesting that the binding of these substrates to the mutant enzyme was affected. This was also evident from the interaction of amino-oxyacetic acid, which was very slow (8.4×10-4 s-1 at 50 μM) for the R401A mutant enzyme compared with the wild-type enzyme (44.6 s-1 at 50 μM). In contrast, methoxyamine (which lacks the carboxy group) reacted with the mutant enzyme (1.72 s-1 at 250 μM) more rapidly than the wild-type enzyme (0.2 s-1 at 250 μM). Further, both wild-type and the mutant enzymes were capable of forming unique quinonoid intermediates absorbing at 440 and 464 nm on interaction with thiosemicarbazide, which also does not have a carboxy group. These results implicate Arg-401 in the binding of the substrate carboxy group. In addition, gel-filtration profiles of the apoenzyme and the reconstituted holoenzyme of R401A and the wild-type enzyme showed that the mutant enzyme remained in a tetrameric form even when the cofactor had been removed. However, the wild-type enzyme underwent partial dissociation to a dimer, suggesting that the oligomeric structure was rendered more stable by the mutation of Arg-401. The increased stability of the mutant enzyme was also reflected in the higher apparent melting temperature (Tm) (61 °C) than that of the wild-type enzyme (56 °C). The addition of serine or serinamide did not change the apparent Tm of R401A mutant enzyme. These results suggest that the mutant enzyme might be in a permanently ‘open’ form and the increased apparent Tm could be due to enhanced subunit interactions.


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