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. 1991 Oct;173(20):6528–6536. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.20.6528-6536.1991

Formation of bacterial membrane ice-nucleating lipoglycoprotein complexes.

L M Kozloff 1, M A Turner 1, F Arellano 1
PMCID: PMC208989  PMID: 1917877

Abstract

The preliminary finding that nonprotein additions to the protein product of the ice-nucleating gene of Pseudomonas syringae or Erwinia herbicola are essential for ice nucleation at the warmest temperatures has led to experiments aimed at identifying possible linkages between the ice protein and the other components. It appears that the protein is coupled to various sugars through N- and O-glycan linkages. Mannose residues are apparently bound via an N-glycan bond to the amide nitrogen of one or more of the three essential asparagine residues in the unique amino-terminal portion of the protein. In turn, these mannose residues are involved in the subsequent attachment of phosphatidylinositol to the nucleation structure. This phosphatidylinositol-mannose-protein structure is the critical element in the class A nucleating structure. In addition to sugars attached to the asparagine residues, additional sugar residues appear to be attached by O-glycan linkages to serine and threonine residues in the primary repeating octapeptide, which makes up 70% of the total ice protein. These additional sugar residues include galactose and glucosamine and most likely additional mannose residues. These conclusions were based on (i) the changes in ice-nucleating activity due to the action of N- and O-glycanases, alpha- and beta-mannosidoses, and beta-galactosidase; (ii) immunoblot analyses of ice proteins in cell extracts after enzyme treatments; and (iii) the properties of transformed Ice+ Escherichia coli cells containing plasmids with defined amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal deletions in the ice gene. Finally, evidence is presented that these sugar residues may play a role in aggregating the ice gene lipoglycoprotein compound into larger aggregates, which are the most effective ice nucleation structures.

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