Distinct but dispensable N-glycosylation of human CD69 proteins. |
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Authors: | B A Vance M J Bennett Y Ward R G Gress K P Kearse |
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Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology & Immunology, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, 27858-4354, USA. |
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Abstract: | Human CD69 is uniquely glycosylated at typical (Asn-X-Ser/Thr) and atypical (Asn-X-Cys) motifs, which represents the molecular basis for the formation of CD69 homodimers and heterodimers. Here we examined the importance of N-glycosylation for the assembly and intracellular transport of CD69 proteins using mutant CD69 molecules that specifically lack typical and atypical N-glycan attachment motifs. These studies verify the importance of Cys residues in atypical triplet sequences for N-glycan addition to human CD69 proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In addition, these data demonstrate that monoglycosylated CD69 proteins (bearing N-glycans exclusively at atypical or typical sites) and aglycosylated CD69 molecules (lacking N-glycans) efficiently dimerize in the ER and have similar stability as wild-type CD69 molecules. Finally, these results show that CD69 proteins lacking atypical or typical N-glycan addition sites are transported to the plasma membrane. |
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