作者:Stephen R. Hamilton、Huijuan Li、Harry Wischnewski、Anita Prasad、Joanna S. Kerley-Hamilton、Teresa Mitchell、Amelia J. Walling、Robert C. Davidson、Stefan Wildt、Tillman U. Gerngross
DOI:10.1093/glycob/cwi045
日期:2005.6.1
Rat endomannosidase is a glycosidic enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of di-, tri-, or tetrasaccharides (Glc1–3Man), from N-glycosylation intermediates with terminal glucose residues. To date it is the only characterized member of this class of endomannosidic enzymes. Although this protein has been demonstrated to localize to the Golgi lumenal membrane, the mechanism by which this occurs has not yet been determined. Using the rat endomannosidase sequence, we identified three homologs, one each in the human, mouse, and rat genomes. Alignment of the four encoded protein sequences demonstrated that the newly identified sequences are highly conserved but differed significantly at the N-terminus from the previously reported protein. In this study we have cloned two novel endomannosidase sequences from rat and human cDNA libraries, but were unable to amplify the open reading frame of the previously reported rat sequence. Analysis of the rat genome confirmed that the 59- and 39-termini of the previously reported sequence were in fact located on different chromosomes. This, in combination with our inability to amplify the previously reported sequence, indicated that the N-terminus of the rat endomannosidase sequence previously published was likely in error (a cloning artifact), and that the sequences reported in the current study encode the intact proteins. Furthermore, unlike the previous sequence, the three ORFs identified in this study encode proteins containing a single N-terminal transmembrane domain. Here we demonstrate that this region is responsible for Golgi localization and in doing so confirm that endomannosidase is a type II membrane protein, like the majority of other secretory pathway glycosylation enzymes.
大鼠内切糖苷酶是一种糖苷酶,可催化二糖、三糖或四糖(Glc1-3Man)从带有末端葡萄糖残基的 N-糖基化中间产物中裂解出来。迄今为止,它是这类内糖苷酶中唯一有特征的成员。虽然该蛋白已被证实定位在高尔基体腔膜上,但其发生机制尚未确定。利用大鼠内切甘露糖苷酶序列,我们确定了三个同源物,在人类、小鼠和大鼠基因组中各有一个。四个编码蛋白序列的比对结果表明,新发现的序列高度保守,但在 N 端与之前报道的蛋白有显著差异。在这项研究中,我们从大鼠和人类的 cDNA 文库中克隆了两个新的内切糖苷酶序列,但未能扩增出之前报道的大鼠序列的开放阅读框。对大鼠基因组的分析证实,之前报道的序列的 59 端和 39 端实际上位于不同的染色体上。这一点,再加上我们无法扩增之前报道的序列,表明之前发表的大鼠内切甘露糖苷酶序列的 N 端很可能是错误的(克隆假象),而本次研究中报道的序列编码的是完整的蛋白质。此外,与之前的序列不同,本研究中发现的三个 ORF 编码的蛋白含有一个 N 端跨膜结构域。在这里,我们证明了这一区域负责高尔基体的定位,从而证实了内切甘露糖苷酶与其他大多数分泌途径糖基化酶一样,是一种 II 型膜蛋白。