Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 585, Issue 20, Pages 3322-3327Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.09.021
Keywords
Glycosylation; Sialic acid; Potassium channel; Channel gating; Cell physiology
Funding
- East Carolina University
- SonnenfeldStiftung, Berlin
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The sialic acid of complex N-glycans can be biochemically engineered by substituting the physiological precursor N-acetylmannosamine with non-natural N-acylmannosamines. The Kv3.1 glycoprotein, a neuronal voltage-gated potassium channel, contains sialic acid. Western blots of the Kv3.1 glycoprotein isolated from transfected B35 neuroblastoma cells incubated with N-acylmannosamines verified sialylated N-glycans attached to the Kv3.1 glycoprotein. Outward ionic currents of Kv3.1 transfected B35 cells treated with N-pentanoylmannosamine or N-propanoylmannosamine had slower activation and inactivation rates than those of untreated cells. Therefore, the N-acyl side chain of sialic acid is intimately connected with the activation and inactivation rates of this glycosylated potassium channel. (C) 2011 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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