Biosynthesis of lens glycoproteins. I. Formation of polyprenyl-linked saccharides in lens cell membranes

Autor: Victor Idoyaga-Vargas, Hector Carminatti, Alejandro Mentaberry
Rok vydání: 1981
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Zdroj: Experimental Eye Research. 33:563-576
ISSN: 0014-4835
DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4835(81)80130-3
Popis: This work describes the formation of lipid sugar intermediates behaving like dilichyl-P-Glc, dolichyl-P-Man, dolichyl-P-P-GlcNAc and dolichyl-P-P-(GlcNAc) 2 in membranes derived from chick embryonic lens. The reaction products obtained upon incubation of membranes with UDP-[ 14 C]Glc, GDP-[ 14 C]ManandUDP-[ 14 C]GlcNAc were indistinguishables from the corresponding sugar derivatives of rat liver dolichyl-P. This was concluded using the following criteria: (a) effect of detergent, divalent cations, exogenous dolichyl-P and nucleotides on product formation. (b) Lability to acid and alkaline hydrolysis. (c) Behaviour on DEAE-cellulose column chromatography and thin-layer chromatography. This work represents the first step in the approach to elucidate the mechanism of protein glycosylation and the identification of lens glycoproteins of the asparagine type.
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