O-fucosylation of notch occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum
LADII/CDG IIc is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by leukocyte adhesion deficiency as well as severe neurological and developmental abnormalities. It is caused by mutations in the Golgi GDP-fucose transporter, resulting in reduction of fucosylated antigens on the cell surface. A recent study using fibroblasts from LADII/CDG IIc patients suggested that while terminal fucosylation of N-glycans is reduced severely, protein O-fucosylation is generally unaffected (Sturla, L., Rampal, R., Haltiwanger, R.S., Fruscione, F., Etzioni, A. and Tonetti, M. (2003) Differential terminal fucosylation of N-linked glycans versus protein O-fucosylation in Leukocyte adhesion deficiency type II (CDG IIc) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 26727-26733). A potential explanation for this phenomenon is that enzymes adding O-fucose to proteins localize to cell organelles other than the Golgi apparatus. In this study, we investigated the subcellular localization of protein O-fucosyltransferase 1 (O-FucT-1), responsible for adding O-fucose to EGF repeats. Our analysis reveals that, unlike all other known fucosyltransferases, O-FucT-1 is a soluble protein that localizes to the ER. In addition, it appears that O-FucT-1 is retained in the ER by a KDEL-like sequence at its C-terminus. Our results also suggest that enzymatic addition of O-fucose to proteins occurs in the ER, suggesting that a novel, ER localized GDP-fucose transporter may exist. The fact that O-FucT-1 recognizes properly folded EGF repeats, together with this unique localization, suggests that it may play a role in quality cotrol.
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