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Mouse teratocarcinoma F9 cells were induced to primitive endoderm differentiation with retinoic acid, and poly-N-acetyllactosamine-containing surface glycoproteins were identified by radiolabelling endo-beta-galactosidase-cleavable glycans with galactosyltransferase and radiolabelled UDP-galactose. One major radiolabelled band with an apparent size of 250-500 kDa was identified which differed from the known poly-N-acetyllactosamine-containing glycoproteins laminin, fibronectin, lysosome-associated membrane protein (LAMP)-1 and LAMP-2. This acidic glycoprotein, resistant to glycosaminoglycan-degrading enzymes and proteases, was purified by extraction and phase partition with Triton X-114, octyl Sepharose and Helix pomatia lectin chromatography. The purified glycoprotein could be digested by endo-beta-galactosidase and glycopeptide N-glycosidase F to an apparent size of 160-240 kDa. During retinoic-acid-induced differentiation into primitive endoderm cells, the glycoprotein showed a several-fold increase and a broadening to an apparent size of 200- > 700 kDa. The glycoprotein was no longer detected in retinoic-acid and dibutyryl-cAMP-treated cells which had undergone further differentiation to parietal endoderm cells, nor in the permanently differentiated parietal endoderm line F9-AC. The results suggest that the glycoprotein is a major carrier of poly-N-acetyllactosamine chains on differentiating teratocarcinoma F9 cells, and that its expression as revealed by the poly-N-acetyllactosamine labelling method is regulated by the stage of cellular differentiation.
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PMID:Identification of a major poly-N-acetyllactosamine-containing cell-surface glycoprotein of mouse teratocarcinoma cells. Appearance on cells induced to primitive endoderm but not parietal endoderm differentiation. 812 95

The interaction between the colon tumor cell surface and the endothelial cell layer is an important component of tumor intravasation, extravasation, and metastasis. Multiple studies suggest that tumor cells may bind to E-selectin expressed on endothelial cells during these processes. To identify possible E-selectin ligands on tumor cells that may participate in this mechanism, we used E-selectin-Ig chimera affinity chromatography to isolate glycoproteins from the human colon cancer cell line Colo-205. Binding of these cells to E-selectin was specific, required the presence of calcium, and could be blocked by antibodies against E-selectin. We identified LAMP-1 (lysosomal membrane glycoprotein-1), LAMP-2, and two high molecular weight glycoproteins (>400 kDa and 300 kDa) as the main E-selectin ligands on Colo-205 cells. Treatment of the cells with N-glycanase and O-sialoglycoprotease abolished their binding to E-selectin. The high MW glycoproteins contained sialyl Lewis X and/or sialyl Lewis A glycoconjugates, and appeared to be either alternatively spliced or alternatively glycosylated forms of MUC-1 (mucin-1).
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PMID:Human colon cancer cells express multiple glycoprotein ligands for E-selectin. 1063 80

Phagosome maturation is a complex process enabling degradation of internalised particles. Our data obtained at the gene, protein and cellular level indicate that the set of components involved in this process and known up to now in mammalian cells is functioning in unicellular eukaryote. Rab7-interacting partners: homologues of its effector RILP (Rab-interacting lysosomal protein) and LAMP-2 (lysosomal membrane protein 2) as well as alpha7 subunit of the 26S proteasome were revealed in Paramecium phagolysosomal compartment. We identified the gene/transcript fragments encoding RILP-related proteins (RILP1 and RILP2) in Paramecium by PCR/RT-PCR and sequencing. The deduced amino acid sequences of RILP1 and RILP2 show 60.5% and 58.3% similarity, respectively, to the region involved in regulating of lysosomal morphology and dynein-dynactin recruitment of human RILP. RILP colocalised with Rab7 in Paramecium lysosomes and at phagolysosomal membrane during phagocytosis of both the latex beads and bacteria. In the same compartment LAMP-2 was present and its expression during latex internalisation was 2.5-fold higher than in the control when P2 protein fractions (100,000 x g) of equal load were quantified by immunoblotting. LAMP-2 cross-reacting polypeptide of approximately106 kDa was glycosylated as shown by fluorescent and Western analysis of the same blot preceded by PNGase F treatment. The alpha7 subunit of 26S proteasome was detected close to the phagosomal membrane in the small vesicles, in some of which it colocalised with Rab7. Immunoblotting confirmed presence of RILP-related polypeptide and a7 subunit of 26S proteasome in Paramecium protein fractions. These results suggest that Rab7, RILP and LAMP-2 may be involved in phagosome maturation in Paramecium.
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PMID:Phagosome maturation in unicellular eukaryote Paramecium: the presence of RILP, Rab7 and LAMP-2 homologues. 1792 Nov 11