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Evidence for processing of dolichol-linked oligosaccharides in patients with neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis.

In agreement with reports from other laboratories, we have shown that patients with the juvenile or late infantile forms of neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis (NCL) have greatly increased levels (5-fold to 20-fold) of dolichyl pyrophosphoryl oligosaccharides in their cerebral gray matter. Oligosaccharides containing 2 GlcNAc residues and 3 to 9 mannose residues were liberated by mild acid hydrolysis. The oligosaccharide profile given by brain tissue from 2 patients with infantile NCL was markedly different from that of late infantile and juvenile NCL brain, with Man9GlcNAc2 as the most abundant component and decreasing amounts of Man8- Man7- and Man6GlcNAc2. By contrast, Man5GlcNAc2 was the most abundant oligosaccharide present in all juvenile NCL brain samples analyzed. Both the susceptibility of the isolated Man5GlcNAc2 to endoglucosaminidase H digestion and permethylation analysis clearly indicated that it is not an intermediate in the biosynthesis of Glc3Man9GlcNAc2-PP-dolichol but has undergone catabolism, probably either in the endoplasmic reticulum or in the Golgi apparatus. Treatment of cultured skin fibroblasts for 7 days with N-methyldeoxynojirimycin, a potent inhibitor of the endoplasmic reticulum processing enzymes glucosidase I and II, resulted in an accumulation of the same Man5GlcNAc2-PP-dolichol species that was elevated in juvenile NCL brain. The level in untreated fibroblasts was undetectable, suggesting that inhibition of processing glucosidases has interfered with the regulation and compartmentalization of lipid-linked oligosaccharides.

1-Deoxynojirimycin↗

The assembly of lipid-linked oligosaccharides in plant and animal membranes.

Membrane preparations from growing regions of pea stems and actively-dividing mouse L-cells form lipid-linked saccharides from GDP-mannose and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine. These lipids have properties which are consistent with those of mono- and di-phosphoryl polyisoprenyl derivatives. In experiments using plant membranes, the monophosphoryl derivative labeled with GDP-(14C) mannose contains mannose only, while the diphosphoryl derivative labeled with the same nucleotide sugar is heterogeneous, containing oligosaccharides corresponding to mannosaccharides of 5, 7, and 9--12 residues. Only the diphosphoryl polyisoprenyl derivatives are labeled with UDP-(14C)glucosamine and these contain predominantly chitobiose and N-acetylglucosamine itself. Unlabeled GDP-mannose added after UDP-N-acetyl-(14C)glucosamine results in the formation of higher lipid-linked oligosaccharides which are apparently the same as those which are labeled with GDP-(14C)mannose alone. Incubation of the membranes with GDP-(14C)mannose in the presence of Mn2+, unlabeled UDP-glucose or unlabeled UDP-N-acetylglucosamine results in marked changes in the accumulation of both the polyisoprenyl monophosphoryl mannose and polyisoprenyl diphosphoryl oligosaccharides. Animal cell membranes synthesise lipid-linked oligosaccharides when incubated with UDP-N-acetylglucosamine and GDP-mannose. These oligosaccharides are similar in size to those synthesised by the plant membranes but their formation is more efficient. The potential roles of these compounds in glycoprotein biosynthesis in both plant and animal tissues is discussed.

Glycoproteins↗

Addition of truncated oligosaccharides to influenza virus hemagglutinin results in its temperature-conditional cell-surface expression.

In the preceding paper (Hearing, J., E. Hunter, L. Rodgers, M.-J. Gething, and J. Sambrook. 1989. J. Cell Biol. 108:339-353) we described the isolation and initial characterization of seven Chinese hamster ovary cell lines that are temperature conditional for the cell-surface expression of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) and other integral membrane glycoproteins. Two of these cell lines appeared to be defective for the synthesis and/or addition of mannose-rich oligosaccharide chains to nascent glycoproteins. In this paper we show that at both 32 and 39 degrees C in two mutant cell lines accumulate a truncated version, Man5GlcNAc2, of the normal lipid-linked precursor oligosaccharide, Glc3Man9GlcNAc2. This is possibly due to a defect in the synthesis of dolichol phosphate because in vitro assays indicate that the mutant cells are not deficient in mannosylphosphoryldolichol synthase at either temperature. A mixture of truncated and complete oligosaccharide chains was transferred to newly synthesized glycoproteins at both the permissive and restrictive temperatures. Both mutant cell lines exhibited altered sensitivity to cytotoxic plant lectins when grown at 32 degrees C, indicating that cellular glycoproteins bearing abnormal oligosaccharide chains were transported to the cell surface at the permissive temperature. Although glycosylation was defective at both 32 and 39 degrees C, the cell lines were temperature conditional for growth, suggesting that cellular glycoproteins were adversely affected by the glycosylation defect at the elevated temperature. The temperature-conditional expression of HA on the cell surface was shown to be due to impairment at 39 degrees C of the folding, trimerization, and stability of HA molecules containing truncated oligosaccharide chains.

Animals↗

Transmembrane organization of protein glycosylation. Mature oligosaccharide-lipid is located on the luminal side of microsomes from Chinese hamster ovary cells.

The transmembrane orientation of Glc3Man9GlcNAc2-pyrophosphoryl-dolichol, which is the oligosaccharide donor in the glycosylation of asparagine residues of eukaryotic glycoproteins has been investigated. The lectin concanavalin A was used as a nonpenetrating probe to study the location of this oligosaccharide-lipid in microsomal vesicles prepared from cultured fibroblasts. Lectin treatment of intact vesicles, and vesicles made leaky with low concentrations of detergent showed that this oligosaccharide-lipid is on the luminal side of membrane. The oligosaccharide-lipid was bound by lectin only if the permeability barrier of the membrane had been destroyed by detergent; very little binding was seen in intact vesicles. This result suggests that glycosylation of nascent secretory and membrane glycoproteins occurs on the luminal side of the membrane. It also implies that sugar residues derived from cytoplasmic sugar nucleotides must be transported across the membrane at some point during the synthesis and accumulation of mature, luminal oligosaccharide-lipid, although the identity of the transported species remains unknown.

Animals↗

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone derivatives of neutral and N-acetylated oligosaccharides.

Derivatization using 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (PMP) was selected among a number of reported methods for labeling carbohydrates, since it gives a quantitative yield, proceeds through a rapid reaction and involves a simple clean-up procedure. Moreover, PMP derivatives provide an increase in sensitivity with ultraviolet and mass spectrometric detection relative to native neutral sugars. Sensitivity studies were carried out using a standard oligosaccharide, tetraglucose. One of the aims of these studies was to determine the minimum amounts of PMP-tetraglucose necessary to generate informative full-scan electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectra and collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectra. Another aim was to characterize the fragmentation pattern of PMP derivatives. Quantitative and qualitative studies were also carried out with a typical N-linked oligosaccharide obtained commercially. The PMP-labeled compound underwent directed cleavages which produced fragments containing the reducing end. The native N-linked sugar yielded fragments corresponding to cleavages from both ends of the molecule. Under the same ESI conditions, the N-linked oligosaccharide exhibited more lability, or tendency to fragment, than neutral tetraglucose, in both the derivatized and native forms. Also, PMP labeling was shown to enhance sensitivity in the case of a neutral oligosaccharide, i.e. tetraglucose, whereas the labeling of an N-acetylated oligosaccharide, NGA3, did not yield a noticeable improvement in sensitivity.

Acetylation↗

Effect of structure on the signal strength of oligosaccharides in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry on time-of-flight and magnetic sector instruments.

The signal strength of the MNa+ ion from 25 underivatized oligosaccharides (linear, and both O- and N-linked oligosaccharides from glycoproteins) was measured by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry on a time-of-flight and on a magnetic sector instrument with 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid as the matrix, in order to examine the influence of structure on ion abundance. Oligosaccharides with masses greater than about 1000 Da exhibited similar signal strengths, irrespective of structure, when examined on the time-of-flight instrument. Oligosaccharides with masses below 1000 Da displayed a progressive reduction in signal intensity with decreasing molecular weight, an effect which was probably due to temporary saturation of the detector by the intense matrix ions (m/z 130-200 region). Similar studies performed on a magnetic sector instrument revealed that all oligosaccharides studied produced signals of equivalent intensity and that no reduction in signal strength occurred with the smaller sugars. The compounds could be measured with a precision of +/- 5% on this instrument. The nature of the matrix did not appear to exert a differential effect on the ionization of sugars of different structural types although some matrices appeared to have a preference for ionization of smaller molecules.

Carbohydrate Sequence↗

Liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry of methyl glycosides of oligosaccharides using matrices containing carboxamides.

Intense cluster ions corresponding to proton-bound hetero-dimers of an amide molecule and an oligosaccharide molecule are observed in the liquid secondary ion mass spectra of methyl glycosides of oligoxylans if a solution of an aliphatic carboxamide in glycerol is used as the liquid matrix. These cluster ions are particularly abundant and persist for a long period if urea (U) or thiourea (TU) is used as the matrix additive. In these cases, cluster ions containing more than one molecule of U or TU and two oligosaccharide molecules are also observed. The intense signal due to the proton-bound hetero-dimer between U or TU and the oligosaccharide can be used with advantage for a molecular weight determination. The bonding interactions between a protonated saccharide molecule and a molecule U or TU in the proton-bound hetero-dimers are so strong that the urea molecules remain attached to the fragment ions during the decay of metastable cluster ions and even during collision-induced dissociation. Thus, the mass-analysed ion kinetic energy spectra of these proton-bound hetero-dimers are dominated by abundant cluster ions [Bn+U] and [Ym+U] arising from cleavage of the glycosidic bonds within the oligosaccharides. The collisionally-activated mass spectra of the proton-bound hetero-dimers additionally contain peaks of the free ions Bn and Ym. Therefore, these spectra clearly reflect the arrangement of the monosaccharide residues in the oligosaccharide and can be used conveniently for structural analysis.

Carbohydrate Sequence↗

Sodium-cationized oligosaccharides do not appear to undergo 'internal residue loss' rearrangement processes on tandem mass spectrometry.

The phenomenon of 'internal residue loss' of protonated native- and per-O-methylated oligosaccharides has recently been described as occurring on high-energy collision conditions. Awareness of this phenomenon in the mass spectrometric analysis of oligosaccharides is of great importance since the rearrangement ions produced by this process may complicate monosaccharide sequence assignment. In this research, oligosaccharides having N-acetyl-glucosamine residues as the reducing or non-reducing terminal residue have been included in our MS/MS analyses in order to try to better understand the factors that influence 'internal residue loss'. Native and per-O-methylated compounds were submitted to positive and negative MS/MS, selecting protonated, sodium-cationized, or de-protonated pseudomolecular ions as precursors. High- and low-energy collision induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry experiments were performed using a four sector instrument and a hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer respectively. The phenomenon of 'internal residue loss' was not observed on either high- or low-energy CID-MS/MS when sodium-cationized precursor ions of either native or per-O-methylated oligosaccharides were examined. Similarly, MS/MS analysis performed in the negative ionization mode also failed to generate ions resulting from 'internal residue loss'. This combination of experiments therefore offers a way to be sure whether ions observed in the tandem mass spectra of protonated native or per-O-methylated oligosaccharides originate from 'internal residue loss' or from direct glycosidic linkage fragmentation.

Carbohydrate Sequence↗

Malononitrile as a new derivatizing reagent for high-sensitivity analysis of oligosaccharides by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.

A new method for the high-sensitivity analysis of oligosaccharides by negative ion electrospray ionization mass spectrometry was developed through a chemical derivatization of oligosaccharides. Oligosaccharides were derivatized to dinitrile compounds from the reaction with malononitrile under mildly basic conditions. The derivative of maltoheptaose was detected mainly as the [M-2H]2- ion in negative ion mode with 20 fmol sensitivity, even in unpurified samples. In this malononitrile derivatization method, no inorganic reagent, other than sodium hydroxide as a base catalyst, is used. Also, because excess ligand (malononitrile) is volatile, high sensitivity detection is realized without any solvent extraction or chromatographic purification. The detection limit can also be decreased by simple on-line cartridge filtration to 200 attomol which is 10(5) times better than that of free maltoheptaose. Structural information for oligosaccharide derivatives was obtained by collision induced dissociation. This malononitrile derivatization method is convenient and efficient for the sensitive analysis of oligosaccharides.

Carbohydrate Sequence↗

Oligosaccharide-protein interactions: a three-dimensional view.

For carbohydrates to serve as recognition elements in cellular function, there must be 'receptors' which are capable of distinguishing between the multitude of oligosaccharide structures generated by a cell. Generally these receptors are assumed to be proteins, and the plant lectins have been used as model systems to examine the molecular basis for specificity in such interactions. Three aspects of the specificity of oligosaccharide-protein interactions will be discussed: (1) the conformational flexibility of oligosaccharides will be demonstrated through a quantitative analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance measurements; (2) a comparison of the measured and calculated values for the entropy barrier to oligosaccharide binding will be used to argue that the barrier arises from a loss of this conformational flexibility upon binding to the lectin (this conclusion is also supported by X-ray crystallographic studies); and (3) the thermodynamic model can be extended to the binding of glycoproteins to receptors and the high affinity of these interactions explained by either multivalency or fixation of the oligosaccharide in the 'correct' three-dimensional structure through interaction with the protein moiety.

Animals↗

Glycoprotein oligosaccharides as recognition structures.

A series of observations--the pronounced changes in the expression and distribution of oligosaccharide antigens during embryonic development, cell differentiation and oncogenesis, the prominence of these changing structures (oncodevelopmental antigens) on the receptor for epidermal growth factor, and the stimulation of receptor autophosphorylation following their perturbation with antibodies--has suggested that the oligosaccharides of growth factor receptors and complementary lectins may be intimately involved in molecular recognition events in growth and differentiation processes. For elucidating oligosaccharide recognition by diverse cellular and secreted proteins and microbial adhesins, a new technique has been developed which involves the overlay of immobilized oligosaccharide probes (neoglycolipids) derived from glycoproteins and other sources. New insights have been gained into carbohydrate recognition by several mammalian lectins, and a novel receptor system has been discovered in Escherichia coli isolated from patients with urinary tract infections. This new technique seems ideal for elucidating oligosaccharide recognition in diverse biological settings, and for 'quality control' of the sugar chains of recombinant glycoproteins engineered for the purpose of administration to man.

Animals↗

Molecular dynamics simulation of Lewis blood groups and related oligosaccharides.

Molecular dynamics simulations without explicit inclusion of solvent molecules have been performed to study the motions of Lewisa and Lewisb blood group oligosaccharides, and two blood group A tetrasaccharides having type I and type II core chains. The blood group H trisaccharide has also been studied and compared with the blood group A type II core chain. The potential energy surface developed by Rasmussen and co-workers was used with the molecular mechanics code CHARMM. The lowest energy minima of the component disaccharide fragments were obtained from conformational energy mapping. The lowest energy minima of these disaccharide fragments were used to build the tri- and tetrasaccharides that were further minimized before the actual heating/equilibration and dynamics simulations. The trajectories of the disaccharide fragments, e.g., Fuc alpha- (1----4)GlcNAc, Gal beta-(1----4)GlcNAc, etc., show transitions among various minima. However, the oligosaccharides were found to be dynamically stable and no transitions to other minimum energy conformations were observed in the time series of the glycosidic dihedral angles even during trajectories as long as 300 ps. The stable conformations of the glycosidic linkages in the oligosaccharides are not necessarily the same as the minimum energy conformation of the corresponding isolated disaccharides. The average fluctuations of the glycosidic angles in the oligosaccharides were well within the range of +/- 15 degrees. The results of these trajectory calculations were consistent with the relatively rigid single-conformation models derived for these oligosaccharides from 1H-nmr data.

Carbohydrate Conformation↗

Structural characterization by chromatographic profiling of the oligosaccharides of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) recombinant envelope glycoprotein gp120 produced in Chinese hamster ovary cells.

This report together with the paper by T. Mizuochi, M. W. Spellman, M. Larkin, J. Solomon, L. J. Basa and T. Feizi (1988) Biochem. J. 254, 599-603 describes the structural elucidation of the N-linked oligosaccharides of the HIV envelope glycoprotein, gp120 (cloned from the HTLV-III B isolate and expressed as a secreted fusion protein after transfection of Chinese hamster ovary cells), which is known to bind with high affinity to human T4 lymphocytes. Oligosaccharides were released from peptide by hydrazinolysis, fractionated by paper electrophoresis, high performance lectin affinity chromatography and Bio-Gel P-4 column chromatography, and their structures determined by sequential exoglycosidase digestions in conjunction with methylation analysis. The glycoprotein was found to be unique in its diversity of oligosaccharide structures. These include high-mannose type and hybrid type, as well as four categories of complex type chains: mono-, bi-, tri- and tetra-antennary, with or without N-acetyllactosamine repeats, and with or without a core region fucose residue. Among the sialidase-treated oligosaccharides no less than 29 structures were identified as follows: (formula; see text) where G = galactose; GN = N-acetylglucosamine; M = mannose; F = fucose; +/- = residues present in a proportion of chains. The actual number of oligosaccharide structures is much greater since before desialylation there was evidence that among the hybrid and complex type chains all but 6% contained sialic acid at the C-3 position of terminal galactose residues, and partially sialylated forms of the bi- and multiantennary chains were present.

Animals↗

The combination of normal phase with reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography for the analysis of asparagine-linked neutral oligosaccharides labelled with p-aminobenzoic ethyl ester.

We have developed a novel approach for the analysis of asparagine-linked neutral oligosaccharides derived from glycoproteins. The oligosaccharides are labelled with p-aminobenzoic ethyl ester and the derivatives are separated on two high performance liquid chromatographic columns, one containing amide-silica and the other containing octadecyl-silica. The elution positions of 39 different ABEE-oligosaccharides on the two columns were plotted on a two-dimensional map. Unique non-overlapping positions of these oligosaccharides demonstrate that this technology would be useful for the identification of Asn-linked oligosaccharides at high sensitivity.

Asparagine↗

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of pyridylaminated oligosaccharide derivatives: sensitivity and in-source fragmentation.

Oligosaccharide chains fluorescence-labelled at their reducing end with 2-aminopyridine were analysed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESIMS). Protonated molecules of complex type oligosaccharides were detectable at a level of 1 pmol. Fragmentation at the glycosidic bonds occurred in the electrospray ion source when the voltage between the capillary nozzle and the first skimmer was elevated, referred to as "in-source fragmentation". Most fragment ions observed had retained the pyridylaminated (PA) site of the molecule and gave significant information on the saccharide sequence. In conjunction with the accumulating data of reversed-phase chromatography of PA oligosaccharides, ESIMS of PA oligosaccharide will be useful as a sensitive method in the structural study of oligosaccharides from various biological sources.

Carbohydrate Sequence↗

High resolution slab gel electrophoresis of 8-amino-1,3, 6-pyrenetrisulfonic acid (APTS) tagged oligosaccharides using a DNA sequencer.

A novel electrophoretic method for the analysis of oligosaccharides using DNA sequencer technology is illustrated using malto-oligosaccharide distributions obtained following isoamylase digestion of glycogen, wheat starch and potato starch. The debranched starches were derivatized at the reducing and with the charged fluorophore 8-amino-1,3,6-pyrenetrisulfonic acid (APTS). This highly reproducible method provides baseline resolution of oligomers from chain lengths of 3 to more than 80 glucose units, and exhibits high sensitivity with detection thresholds of one femtomole per resolved band. In addition, the reductive amination procedure attaches a single fluorophore per oligosaccharide, allowing calculation of the results on either a mass or a molar basis. The efficacy of the method is illustrated through the determination of the profile of individual oligosaccharides of chain length with a degree of polymerization (DP) < 80, derived from loading less than 15 ng per analysis of glycogen, wheat and potato starches. While the results obtained were superior in resolution and sensitivity to previously reported observations using a range of techniques, they were nonetheless consistent with the overall differences between these polysaccharides. The resolution, sensitivity, reproducibility and high throughput of the method provides substantial advantages over existing methods for the analysis of linear oligosaccharide chain length distributions.

Amination↗

On-line sheathless capillary electrophoresis/nanoelectrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry for the analysis of glycosaminoglycan oligosaccharides.

A novel approach in glycosaminoglycomics, based on sheathless on-line capillary electrophoresis/nanoelectrospray ionization-quadrupole time of flight-mass spectrometry (CE/nanoESI-QTOF-MS) and tandem MS of extended chondroitin sulfate/dermatan (CS/DS) oligosaccharide chains is described. The methodology required the construction of a new sheathless CE/nanoESI-QTOF-MS configuration, its implementation and optimization for the high sensitivity analysis of CS/DS oligosaccharide mixtures from conditioned culture medium of decorin transfected human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells. Under newly established sheathless on-line CE/(-)nanoESI conditions for glycosaminoglycan (GAG) ionization and MS detection, single CS/DS oligosaccharide components of extended chain length and increased sulfation degree were identified. Molecular ions corresponding to species carrying 5 and 6 negative charges could be generated for large GAG oligosaccharide species in the negative ion nanoESI-MS. The optimized on-line conditions enabled the detection of molecular ions assigned to oversulfated tetradeca-, octadeca-, and eicosasaccharide CS/DS molecules, which represent the category of largest sulfated GAG-derived oligosaccharides evidenced by CE/ESI-MS. By on-line CE/ESI tandem MS in data-dependent acquisition mode the oversulfated eicosasaccharide species could be sequenced and the localization of the additional sulfate group along the chain could be determined.

Cell Line↗

Contribution of oligosaccharides to protection of the H,K-ATPase beta-subunit against trypsinolysis.

The proton-pumping H+,K+-adenosinetriphosphatase (H,K-ATPase), responsible for acid secretion by the gastric parietal cell, faces a harshly acidic environment, with some pepsin from neighboring chief cells, at its luminal surface. Its large catalytic alpha-subunit is mostly oriented cytoplasmically. The smaller beta-subunit (HKbeta), is mainly extracellular, with one transmembrane domain and a small cytoplasmic domain. Seven N-linked oligosaccharides in the extracellular domain of HKbeta are thought to contribute to protection of the H,K-ATPase, since previous work has shown that their complete removal, by peptide N-glycosidase F (PNGase F), greatly increased susceptibility of HKbeta to proteolysis. The possibility of graded protection by different numbers of oligosaccharides was investigated here with the use of mutant HKbeta cDNA, having various N-glycosylation sites mutated (Asn to Gln), transfected into HEK-293 cells. Membrane preparations, two days after transfection, were solubilized in 1% Triton X-100 and subjected to trypsinolysis (pH 8, 37 degrees C, trypsin:protein 1:10-1:25). Relative amounts of HKbeta remaining after 20 min trypsin were determined, after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and probing of Western blots with an antibody to the HKbeta extracellular domain, by chemiluminescent development of blots and densitometry of resulting films. Maturely glycosylated HKbeta was made significantly more susceptible to trypsin than wild type when at least five oligosaccharides were deleted, while the high-mannose form (pre-beta), from the endoplasmic reticulum, became significantly more susceptible than wild-type pre-beta with removal of only two or more oligosaccharides. For each mutant, and wild type, pre-beta was consistently more susceptible than the mature form. While the number, and kind, of oligosaccharides seem to affect protection for HKbeta against trypsinolysis, other aspects of protein maturation, including proper folding of peptide domains and possible subtle alterations of conformation during Golgi processing, are also likely to contribute to this protection.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗