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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 288, Issue 30, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.460543
Keywords
Glycosylation; Glycosyltransferases; Golgi; Keratan; Proteoglycan; UDP-N-Acetylglucosamine Transporter; Branched N-Glycans
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- National Science Center (NCN), Krakow, Poland [2011/03/B/NZ1/02084]
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SLC35A3 is considered the main UDP-N-acetylglucosamine transporter (NGT) in mammals. Detailed analysis of NGT is restricted because mammalian mutant cells defective in this activity have not been isolated. Therefore, using the siRNA approach, we developed and characterized several NGT-deficient mammalian cell lines. CHO, CHO-Lec8, and HeLa cells deficient in NGT activity displayed a decrease in the amount of highly branched tri- and tetraantennary N-glycans, whereas monoantennary and diantennary ones remained unchanged or even were accumulated. Silencing the expression of NGT in Madin-Darby canine kidney II cells resulted in a dramatic decrease in the keratan sulfate content, whereas no changes in biosynthesis of heparan sulfate were observed. We also demonstrated for the first time close proximity between NGT and mannosyl (-1,6-)-glycoprotein -1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (Mgat5) in the Golgi membrane. We conclude that NGT may be important for the biosynthesis of highly branched, multiantennary complex N-glycans and keratan sulfate. We hypothesize that NGT may specifically supply -1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyl-transferase 7 (3GnT7), Mgat5, and possibly mannosyl (-1,3-)-glycoprotein -1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (Mgat4) with UDP-GlcNAc.
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