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. 1987 Dec 1;248(2):523–531. doi: 10.1042/bj2480523

The role of C-4-substituted mannose analogues in protein glycosylation. Effect of the guanosine diphosphate esters of 4-deoxy-4-fluoro-D-mannose and 4-deoxy-D-mannose on lipid-linked oligosaccharide assembly.

W McDowell 1, T J Grier 1, J R Rasmussen 1, R T Schwarz 1
PMCID: PMC1148573  PMID: 2449168

Abstract

The effects of the guanosine diphosphate esters of 4-deoxy-4-fluoro-D-mannose (GDP-4FMan) and 4-deoxy-D-mannose (GDP-4dMan) on reactions of the dolichol pathway in chick-embryo cell microsomal membranes were investigated by studies with chick-embryo cell microsomal membranes in vitro and in baby-hamster kidney (BHK) cells in vivo. Each nucleotide sugar analogue inhibited lipid-linked oligosaccharide biosynthesis in a concentration-dependent manner. GDP-4FMan blocked in vitro the addition of mannose to Dol-PP-(GlcNAc)2Man from GDP-Man (where Dol represents dolichol), but did not interfere with the formation of Dol-P-Man, Dol-P-Glc and Dol-PP-(GlcNAc)2. Although GDP-4FMan and Dol-P-4FMan were identified as metabolites of 4FMan in BHK cells labelled with [1-14C]4FMan, GDP-4FMan was a very poor substrate for GDP-Man:Dol-P mannosyltransferase and Dol-P-4FMan could only be synthesized in vitro if the chick-embryo cell membranes were primed with Dol-P. It therefore appears that the inhibition of lipid-linked oligosaccharide formation in BHK cells treated with 4FMan [Grier & Rasmussen (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 1027-1030] is due primarily to a blockage in the formation of Dol-PP-(GlcNAc)2Man2 by GDP-4FMan. In contrast, GDP-4dMan was a substrate for those mannosyltransferases that catalyse the transfer of the first five mannose residues to Dol-PP-(GlcNAc)2. In addition, GDP-4dMan was a substrate for GDP-Man:Dol-P mannosyltransferase, which catalysed the formation of Dol-P-4dMan. As a consequence of this, the formation of Dol-P-Man, Dol-P-Glc and Dol-PP-(GlcNAc)2 may be inhibited through competition for Dol-P. In BHK cells treated with 10 mM-4dMan, Dol-PP-(GlcNAc)2Man9 was the major lipid-linked oligosaccharide detected. Nearly normal extents of protein glycosylation were observed, but very little processing to complex oligosaccharides occurred, and the high-mannose structures were smaller than in untreated cells.

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