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. 1975 Sep;72(9):3323–3327. doi: 10.1073/pnas.72.9.3323

Chinese hamster ovary cells selected for resistance to the cytotoxicity of phytohemagglutinin are deficient in a UDP-N-acetylglucosamine--glycoprotein N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity.

P Stanley, S Narasimhan, L Siminovitch, H Schachter
PMCID: PMC432984  PMID: 1059116

Abstract

Several clones of Chinese hamster ovary cells resistant to the cytotoxicity of the phytohemagglutinin from Phaseolus vulgaris show decreased binding of 125I-labeled phytohemagglutinin and contain decreased levels of a UDP-N-acetylglucosamine--glycoprotein N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.51; UDP-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose:glycoprotein 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucosyltransferase) activity when compared to wild-type cells. The decrease in transferase activity varies from 45% to 96%, depending on the exogenous acceptor used in the enzyme assay. No differences between lectin-resistant and wild-type cells were noted for several other glycosyltransferases. The absence of a particular N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase in the lectin-resistant cells apparently results in defective glycosylation of lectin-binding glycoproteins on the cell surface. A phytohemagglutinin-resistant clone which shows decreased binding of 125I-labeled phytohemagglutinin but does not exhibit the enzyme deficiency has also been isolated.

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