Increased alpha2,3-sialylation and hyperglycosylation of N-glycans in embryonic rat cortical neurons during camptothecin-induced apoptosis |
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Authors: | Kim Sung-Min Lee Jung-Sun Lee Yoon-Hee Kim Woo-Jung Do Su-Il Choo Young-Kug Park Yong-Il |
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Institution: | Department of Biotechnology and Biomaterial Engineering Center, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon 420-743, Korea. |
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Abstract: | Alterations in the glycan chains of cell surface glycoconjugates are frequently involved biological processes such as cell-cell interaction, cell migration, differentiation and development. Cultured embryonic (E18) rat cortical neurons underwent apoptosis in response to camptothecin, and lectin histochemistry showed that binding to apoptotic neurons of FITC-conjugated Maackia amurensis agglutinin (MAA), which is specific for terminal alpha2,3-sialic acid residues, increased progressively with increasing concentrations of camptothecin. Analysis of the total proteins of apoptotic neurons by SDS-PAGE, and lectin blotting using HRP-labeled MAA, revealed that the expression of terminal alpha2,3-sialic acid residues on an unknown protein with an apparent molecular mass of 25.6 kDa also increased in apoptotic neurons. NP-HPLC analysis of the total cellular N-glycans of normal and apoptotic neurons demonstrated that the expression of structurally simpler biantennary types of N-glycans fell by 49% during apoptosis whereas the more branched triantennary types of N-glycans with terminal sialic acid residues increased by up to 59%. These results suggest that increased surface expression of alpha2,3-sialic acid residues and hyperglycosylation of N-glycans is a common feature of cellular responses to changes in cell physiology such as tumorigenesis and apoptosis. |
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