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A novel approach for N-glycosylation studies using detergent extracted microsomes.

Recently, it has become apparent that asparagine-linked (N-linked) oligosaccharide at an early stage of processing can play an important role in quality control of the secretory pathway. Here, we have developed a system for better understanding of the N-glycosylation machinery and its involvement in quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Rough microsomes (RM) treated with 0.18% Tx-100 (TxRM) preserved translocation activities to a similar extent detected in RM. TxRM were depleted of many soluble proteins including glucosidase II, BiP and Erp72, but maintained approximately 80% of calnexin, a membrane protein. More importantly, TxRM revealed insufficient glycosylation of T cell receptor-alpha (TCR-alpha), suggesting that a factor or factors extracted with 0.18% Tx-100 is responsible for facilitating the transfer of oligosaccharides to the protein. In addition, the top band of TCR-alpha translated in TxRM migrated slower than that in RM, but faster than that in RM treated with castanospermine (CST), an inhibitor of glucosidase I/II. This suggests that the trimming of the inner two glucose sugars is impaired by the loss of glucosidase II. Furthermore, we demonstrated that TCR-alpha coprecipitated with calnexin migrated between unglucosylated and diglucosylated forms on SDS-PAGE. Thus, the treatment of RM with low concentration of detergent is a very powerful method for elucidating not only N-glycosylation processes but also other biological functions such as quality control in the ER.[1]

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  1. A novel approach for N-glycosylation studies using detergent extracted microsomes. Yuki, H., Hamanaka, R., Shinohara, T., Sakai, K., Watanabe, M. Mol. Cell. Biochem. (2005) [Pubmed]
 
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