Genetic tailoring of N-linked oligosaccharides: the role of glucose residues in glycoprotein processing of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in vivo |
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Authors: | Jakob CA; Burda P; te Heesen S; Aebi M; Roth J |
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Institution: | Division of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Institute for Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | In higher eukaryotes a quality control system monitoring the folding state
of glycoproteins is located in the ER and is composed of the proteins
calnexin, calreticulin, glucosidase II, and UDP-glucose: glycoprotein
glucosyltransferase. It is believed that the innermost glucose residue of
the N- linked oligosaccharide of a glycoprotein serves as a tag in this
control system and therefore performs an important function in the protein
folding pathway. To address this function, we constructed Saccharomyces
cerevisiae strains which contain nonglucosylated (G0), monoglucosylated
(G1), or diglucosylated (G2) glycoproteins in the ER and used these strains
to study the role of glucose residues in the ER processing of
glycoproteins. These alterations of the oligosaccharide structure did not
result in a growth phenotype, but the induction of the unfolded protein
response upon treatment with DTT was much higher in G0 and G2 strains as
compared to wild-type and G1 strains. Our results provide in vivo evidence
that the G1 oligosaccharide is an active oligosaccharide structure in the
ER glycoprotein processing pathway of S.cerevisiae. Furthermore, by
analyzing N- linked oligosaccharides of the constructed strains we can
directly show that no general glycoprotein glucosyltransferase exists in S.
cerevisiae.
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