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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
卷 478, 期 8, 页码 1571-1583出版社
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20210138
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- US National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 GM080374, P41GM103390, P01GM107012, R01GM130915]
The study revealed that FUT8 could core-fucosylate various N-glycoproteins in appropriate protein contexts, even without the essential GlcNAc moiety in specific locations. Additionally, it was found that sialylation of N-glycans significantly reduced their activity as a substrate of FUT8, while modification with Fmoc aglycone could enhance the efficiency of FUT8 catalyzed fucosylation.
The alpha 1,6-fucosyltransferase, FUT8, is the sole enzyme catalyzing the core-fucosylation of N-glycoproteins in mammalian systems. Previous studies using free N-glycans as acceptor substrates indicated that a terminal beta 1,2-GlcNAc moiety on the Man-alpha 1,3-Man arm of N-glycan substrates is required for efficient FUT8-catalyzed core-fucosylation. In contrast, we recently demonstrated that, in a proper protein context, FUT8 could also fucosylate Man(5)GlcNAc(2) without a GlcNAc at the non-reducing end. We describe here a further study of the substrate specificity of FUT8 using a range of N-glycans containing different aglycones. We found that FUT8 could fucosylate most of high-mannose and complex-type N-glycans, including highly branched N-glycans from chicken ovalbumin, when the aglycone moiety is modified with a 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc) moiety or in a suitable peptide/protein context, even if they lack the terminal GlcNAc moiety on the Man-alpha 1,3-Man arm. FUT8 could also fucosylate paucimannose structures when they are on glycoprotein substrates. Such core-fucosylated paucimannosylation is a prominent feature of lysosomal proteins of human neutrophils and several types of cancers. We also found that sialylation of N-glycans significantly reduced their activity as a substrate of FUT8. Kinetic analysis demonstrated that Fmoc aglycone modification could either improve the turnover rate or decrease the K-M value depending on the nature of the substrates, thus significantly enhancing the overall efficiency of FUT8 catalyzed fucosylation. Our results indicate that an appropriate aglycone context of N-glycans could significantly broaden the acceptor substrate specificity of FUT8 beyond what has previously been thought.
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