Biosynthesis of heparin |
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Authors: | Johan Riesenfeld Inger Pettersson Ulf Lindahl Willie F Vann Lennart Roden |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Medical and Physiological Chemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, The Biomedical Center, Box 575, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden;(2) Bureau of Biologics, Food and Drug Administration, 20205 Bethesda, Maryland, USA;(3) Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Institute of Dental Research, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 Birmingham, Alabama, USA;(4) Present address: Carmeda AB, Björnnäsvägen 21, S-113 47 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | The formation of labeled heparin-precursor polysaccharide (N-acetylheparosan) from the nucleotide sugars, UDP-[14C]glucuronic acid and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, in a mouse mastocytoma microsomal fraction was abolished by the addition of 1% Triton X-100. In contrast, the detergent-treated microsomal preparation retained the ability to convert such preformed polysaccharide into sulfated products during incubation with 3 -phosphoadenylylsulfate (PAPS). However, as shown by ion-exchange chromatography of these products, the detegent treatment changed the kinetics of sulfation from the rapid, repetivive process characteristic of the unperturbed system to a slow, progressive sulfation, which involved all polysarccharide molecules simultaneously and yielded, ultimately, a more highly sulfated product. The detergent effect was attributed to solubilization of sulfotransferases from the microsomal membranes, along with other polymer-modifying enzymes and the polysaccharide substrate. The resulting product showed an apparently random distribution ofN-acetyl andN-sulfate groups, instead of the predominantly block-wise arrangement achieved through membrane-associated biosynthesis.O-Sulfation occurred mainly at C2 of the iduronic acid units in the membrane-bound polysaccharide but at C6 of the glucosamine residues in the presence of detergent.A capsular polysaccharide fromEscherichia coli K5, previously found to have a structure identical to that of the nonsulfated heparin-precursor polysaccharide, was sulfated in the solubilized system in a fashion similar to that of the endogenous substrate, but was not accessible to the membrane-bound enzymes.These findings suggest that the regulation of the polymer-modification process, and hence the structure of the final polysaccharide product, depends heavily on the organization of the enzymes and their proteoglycan substrate in the endoplasmic membranes of the cell.Abbreviations PAPS 3 -phosphoadenylylsulfate - Hepes 4-(2-hydroxy-ethyl)piperazineethanesulfonic acid - GlcUA glucuronic acidThis is Paper XIV of a series in which the preceeding reports are refs 10 and 12. A preliminary report has appeared [28]. |
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Keywords: | heparin mastocytoma sulfotransferase 3 /content/m810t32267nw4976/xxlarge8242.gif" alt=" prime" align=" BASELINE" BORDER=" 0" >-phosphoadenylylsulfate (PAPS) |
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