PMID: 9435216Jan 22, 1998Paper

Molecular cloning of a human cDNA encoding beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase with 37% identity to mammalian UDP-Gal:GlcNAc beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Takeshi SatoI van Die

Abstract

A cDNA encoding a beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase named beta-1,4-GalT II was cloned from a cDNA library of the human breast tumor cell line, MRK-nu-1. Initially, a 860-bp PCR fragment was obtained from MRK-nu-1 mRNA by 3'-rapid amplification of cDNA ends by using two nested degenerate oligonucleotide primers based on a highly conserved amino acid sequence found in the catalytic domain of mammalian beta-1,4-galactosyltransferases and Lymnaea stagnalis beta-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (beta-1,4-GlcNAcT), both of which utilize the same sugar acceptor. This subsequently was used as a probe to isolate a 4.7-kb cDNA that contained an ORF of 1,164 bp predicting a polypeptide of 388 aa. Its deduced amino acid sequence shows an identity of 37% with that of the previously characterized human beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase (referred to as beta-1,4-GalT I) and of 28% with that of L. stagnalis beta-1,4-GlcNAcT. Study of the properties of the beta-1,4-GalT II fused to protein A expressed as a soluble form in COS-7 cells revealed that it is a genuine beta-1,4-GalT but has no lactose synthetase activity in the presence of alpha-lactalbumin. Northern blot analysis of 24 human tissues showed that they all express the beta-1,4-GalT II tran...Continue Reading

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