The asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of the human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit facilitate correct disulfide bond pairing.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
W FengI Boime

Abstract

The role of asparagine (N)-linked oligosaccharide chains in intracellular folding of the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)-beta subunit was determined by examining the kinetics of folding in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected with wild-type or mutant hCG-beta genes lacking one or both of the asparagine glycosylation sites. The half-time for folding of p beta 1 into p beta 2, the rate-determining step in beta folding, was 7 min for wild-type beta but 33 min for beta lacking both N-linked glycans. The p beta 1-->p beta 2 half-time was 7.5 min in CHO cells expressing the beta subunit missing the Asn13-linked glycan and 10 min for the beta subunit missing the Asn30-linked glycan. The inefficient folding of hCG-beta lacking both N-linked glycans correlated with the slow formation of the last three disulfide bonds (i.e. disulfides 23-72, 93-100, and 26-110) to form in the hCG-beta-folding pathway. Unglycosylated hCG-beta was slowly secreted from CHO cells, and beta subunit-folding intermediates retained in cells for more than 5 h were degraded into a hCG-beta core fragment-like protein. However, coexpression of the hCG-alpha gene enhanced folding and formation of disulfide bonds 23-72, 93-100, and 26-110 of hCG-beta lacki...Continue Reading

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