Differential effects of vanadate on UDP-N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase activity derived from cytosol and nucleosol |
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Authors: | Marshall Stephen Okuyama Ryo |
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Institution: | Hexos, Inc., Woodinville, WA 98072, USA. Hexos@comcast.net |
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Abstract: | UDP-N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase (OGT) is a key enzyme of a novel signal transduction pathway that regulates protein function through O-linked glycosylation. In the current study, we found that sodium vanadate potently inhibits OGT activity in brain cytosol (IC50 = 55 microM) and nucleosol (IC50 = 150 microM), but fails to alter activity of a related enzyme (UDP-galactosyltransferase). Vanadate also inhibits OGT activity in cytosol (IC50 of 2.3 microM) and nucleosol (IC50 of 130) derived from a stable HeLa cell line that overexpresses OGT. When HeLa cytosol was immunopurified to separate OGT from other cellular proteins, vanadate still inhibited OGT activity (IC50 = 2 microM). We conclude that OGT derived from cytosol exhibits greater vanadate sensitivity than nucleosol OGT and that a large difference exists (25-fold) in vanadate sensitivity when comparing OGT activity in different cell types (IC50 of 55 microM for brain cytosol vs. 2.3 microM for HeLa cytosol). Understanding the mechanism(s) by which a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor differentially reduces OGT activity should lead to new insights into OGT function and regulation. |
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Keywords: | Vanadate UDP-N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase O-linked glycoproteins Signal transduction Enzymology |
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