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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 290, 期 9, 页码 5484-5501出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.635268
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- Ministry of Education, Science, and Sports [22380187, 25292216, 21-09722, 23570133]
- JSPS Strategic Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation Ministry of Education, Science, and Sports
- CNRS
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Strategic Japanese-French Cooperative Program on Marine Genome and Marine Biotechnology
- Naito Foundation Subsidy for Promotion of Specific Research Projects
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25292216] Funding Source: KAKEN
Mammalian sperm acquire fertility through a functional maturation process called capacitation, where sperm membrane molecules are drastically remodeled. In this study, we found that a wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)-reactive protein on lipid rafts, named WGA16, is removed from the sperm surface on capacitation. WGA16 is a prostate-derived seminal plasma protein that has never been reported and is deposited on the sperm surface in the male reproductive tract. Based on protein and cDNA sequences for purified WGA16, it is a homologue of human zymogen granule protein 16(ZG16) belonging to the Jacalin-relatedlectin(JRL) family in crystal and primary structures. A glycan array shows that WGA16 binds heparin through a basic patch containing Lys-53/Lys-73 residues but not the conventional lectin domain of the JRL family. WGA16 is glycosylated, contrary to other ZG16 members, and comparative mass spectrometry clearly shows its unique N-glycosylation profile among seminal plasma proteins. It has exposed GlcNAc and GalNAc residues without additional Gal residues. The GlcNAc/GalNAc residues can work as binding ligands for a sperm surface galactosyltransferase, which actuallygalactosylates WGA16 in situ in the presence of UDP-Gal. Interestingly, surface removal of WGA16 is experimentally induced by either UDP-Gal or heparin. In the crystal structure, N-glycosylated sites and a potential heparin-binding site face opposite sides. This geography of two functional sites suggest that WGA16 is deposited on the sperm surface through interaction between its N-glycans and the surface galactosyltransferase, whereas its heparin-binding domain may be involved in binding to sulfated glycosaminoglycans in the female tract, enabling removal of WGA16 from the sperm surface.
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