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GLYCOCONJUGATE JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 57-73Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10719-008-9163-3
Keywords
Achatinin-H; Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL); Lymphoblast; Sialate-O-acetyltransferase; 9-O-acetylated sialic acids
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- University Grant Commission, Government of India
- Department of Science and Technology
- Department of Biotechnology
- Indian Council of Medical Research
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India
- The Sialic Acids Society, Kiel, Germany
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Previous studies had established an over-expression of 9-O-acetylated sialoglycoproteins (Neu5,9Ac(2)-GPs) on lymphoblasts of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Here, we report the discovery and characterization of sialate-O-acetyltransferase enzyme in ALL-cell lines and lymphoblasts from bone marrow of children diagnosed with B- and T-ALL. We observed a positive correlation between the enhanced sialate-O-acetyltransferase activity and the enhanced expression of Neu5,9Ac(2)-GPs in these lymphoblasts. Sialate-O-acetyltransferase activity in cell lysates or microsomal fractions of lymphoblasts of patients was always higher than that in healthy donors reaching up to 22-fold in microsomes. Additionally, the V (max) of this enzymatic reaction with AcCoA was over threefold higher in microsomal fractions of lymphoblasts. The enzyme bound to the microsomal fractions showed high activity with CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid, ganglioside GD3 and endogenous sialic acid as substrates. N-acetyl-7-O-acetylneuraminic acid was the main reaction product, as detected by radio-thin-layer chromatography and fluorimetrically coupled radio-high-performance liquid chromatography. CMP and coenzyme A inhibited the microsomal enzyme. Sialate-O-acetyltransferase activity increased at the diagnosis of leukaemia, decreased with clinical remission and sharply increased again in relapsed patients as determined by radiometric-assay. A newly-developed non-radioactive ELISA can quickly detect sialate-O-acetyltransferase, and thus, may become a suitable tool for ALL-monitoring in larger scale. This is the first report on sialate-O-acetyltransferase in ALL being one of the few descriptions of an enzyme of this type in human.
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