A systematic study of site-specific GalNAc-type O-glycosylation modulating proprotein convertase processing

Katrine Ter-Borch Gram Schjoldager, Malene B Vester-Christensen, Christoffer K Goth, Thomas Nordahl Petersen, Søren Brunak, Eric P Bennett, Steven B Levery, Henrik Clausen

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Abstract

Site-specific GalNAc-type O-glycosylation is emerging as an important co-regulator of proprotein convertase (PC) processing of proteins. PC processing is crucial in regulating many fundamental biological pathways and O-glycans in or immediately adjacent to processing sites may affect recognition and function of PCs. Thus, we previously demonstrated that deficiency in site-specific O-glycosylation in a PC site of the fibroblast growth factor, FGF23, resulted in marked reduction in secretion of active unprocessed FGF23, which cause familial tumoral calcinosis and hyperostosis hyperphosphatemia. GalNAc-type O-glycosylation is found on serine and threonine amino acids and up to 20 distinct polypeptide GalNAc transferases catalyze the first addition of GalNAc to proteins making this step the most complex and differentially regulated steps in protein glycosylation. There is no reliable prediction model for O-glycosylation especially of isolated sites, but serine and to a lesser extent threonine residues are frequently found adjacent to PC processing sites. In the present study we used in vitro enzyme assays and ex vivo cell models to systematically address the boundaries of the region within site-specific O-glycosylation affect PC processing. The results demonstrate that O-glycans within at least ±3 residues of the RXXR furin cleavage site may affect PC processing suggesting that site-specific O-glycosylation is a major co-regulator of PC processing.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Biological Chemistry
Volume286
Issue number46
Pages (from-to)40122-32
Number of pages11
ISSN0021-9258
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2011

Keywords

  • Amino Acid Motifs
  • Animals
  • CHO Cells
  • Cricetinae
  • Cricetulus
  • Fibroblast Growth Factors
  • Furin
  • Glycosylation
  • Humans
  • Protein Modification, Translational
  • Protein Processing, Post-Translational
  • Proteolysis

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