PMID: 12758148May 22, 2003Paper

Soluble human core 2 beta6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase C2GnT1 requires its conserved cysteine residues for full activity

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
Xiaojing YangI Brockhausen

Abstract

Human UDP-GlcNAc: Galbeta1-3GalNAc- (GlcNAc to GalNAc) beta1,6-GlcNAc-transferase (C2GnT1) is a member of a group of beta6-GlcNAc-transferases that belongs to CAZy family 14. One of the striking features of these beta6-GlcNAc-transferases is the occurrence of nine completely conserved cysteine residues that are located throughout the catalytic domain. We have expressed the soluble catalytic domain of human C2GnT1 in insect cells, and isolated active enzyme as a secreted protein. beta-Mercaptoethanol (beta-ME) and dithiothreitol (DTT) were found to stimulate the enzyme activity up to 20-fold, indicating a requirement for a reduced sulfhydryl for activity. When the enzyme was subjected to nonreducing PAGE, the migration of the protein was identical to the migration in reducing gels, demonstrating the absence of intermolecular disulfide bonds. This suggested that the monomer is the active form of the enzyme. Sulfhydryl reagents such as 5,5'-dithiobis-2-nitrobenzoic acid (DTNB) and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) inactivated the enzyme, and the inactivation was partially prevented by prior addition of donor or acceptor substrate and by sulfhydryl reducing agents. We therefore investigated the role of all nine conserved cysteine residues in ...Continue Reading

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Nov 5, 2014·Frontiers in Immunology·Inka Brockhausen
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