Side group addition by xylosyltransferase and glucuronyltransferase in biosynthesis of capsular polysaccharide in Cryptococcus neoformans

Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology : Bi-monthly Publication of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
C W WhiteE S Jacobson

Abstract

The capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans consists of an O-acetylated mannan backbone with xylosyl and glucuronyl substituents. We have studied two enzymes in the biosynthetic pathway of this polysaccharide. A particulate enzyme preparation contained xylosyltransferase and glucuronyltransferase activities with pH optima of 7.5 and less than 6.5, and optimum incubation temperatures of 25 degrees and 37 degrees C respectively. O-acetylated mannan served as an acceptor for glucuronyl residues but xylomannan did not. Glucuronomannan served as an acceptor for xylosyl residues but acetylated mannan did not. These observations suggest that glucuronate is added before xylose and after acetate. This hypothesis was supported by studies of lipid-linked sugars in which a microsomal preparation was incubated with various combinations of nucleotide sugars. With GDP-mannose, UDP-glucuronate and UDP-[14C]xylose; GDP-mannose, UDP-[14C]glucuronate and UDP-xylose; or GDP-mannose and UDP-[14C]glucuronate, no evidence for a lipid-linked monosaccharide was obtained. However, lipid-linked xylose was detected only if GDP-mannose and UDP-[14C]xylose were provided, a finding consistent with a pool of lipid-linked xylose which is only transf...Continue Reading

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