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. 1978 Mar 15;170(3):479–486. doi: 10.1042/bj1700479

The formation of lipid-linked sugars by cell-free preparations of lactating rabbit mammary gland.

D A White
PMCID: PMC1183922  PMID: 646797

Abstract

1. A lactating rabbit mammary-gland microsomal system catalysed the incorporation of mannose from GDP-[U-14C]mannose into three endogenous acceptors, (i) polyprenyl phosphate mannose, (ii) lipid-linked oligosaccharide and (iii) protein. 2. Synthesis of polyprenyl phosphate mannose was stimulated by addition of dolichol phosphate to the incubation medium and was reversed by addition of GDP. The product had properties identical with those of authentic dolichol phosphate mannose. 3. The oligosaccharides derived from acid hydrolysis of the lipid-linked oligosaccharide fraction were of six, eight and nine to ten monosaccharide units, the octasaccharide being the major species formed. The oligosaccharide appeared to be attached to the lipid via a pyrophosphate bridge, since strong alkaline hydrolysis liberated an oligosaccharide phosphate. 4. Polyprenyl phosphate mannose served as a mannose donor to lipid-linked oligosaccharides and protein. When added as exogenous substrate it gave rise to a lipid-linked oligosaccharide of about six units. 5. Incorporation of radioactivity in protein was low, but polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of the protein fractions indicated that polypeptides of mol.wts. 115000, 75000 and 33000 were labelled.

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