Distinct orders of GalNAc incorporation into a peptide with consecutive threonines |
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Authors: | Kato K Takeuchi H Miyahara N Kanoh A Hassan H Clausen H Irimura T |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Molecular Immunology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. |
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Abstract: | Mucin O-glycosylation is initiated by a transfer of N-acetyl-d-galactosamine (GalNAc) to Ser and Thr residues in polypeptides with a family of UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases (pp-GalNAc-Ts). In this paper, four human pp-GalNAc-Ts (pp-GalNAc-T1, T2, T3, and T4) were tested for their preferential orders of GalNAc incorporation into FITC-PTTTPITTTTK, a portion of the tandem repeat of human MUC2. The products were separated by reverse-phase HPLC and characterized by MALDI-TOF MS and peptide sequencing. pp-GalNAc-T1 showed preference for acceptor sites, but the order of the incorporation into these sites seemed to be random. In contrast, the GalNAc incorporation by pp-GalNAc-T2, T3, or T4 was not only site-specific but also according to the specific orders. Furthermore, pp-GalNAc-T2, T3, or T4 had distinct maximum numbers of GalNAc incorporations into this peptide. |
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