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Query: EC:3.5.1.52 (PNGase F)
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The cytoplasmic tubulovesicular and canalicular membranes of gastric parietal cells are intimately involved in hydrochloric acid secretion. To characterise the glycoproteins of these membranes, we examined a panel of lectins for reactivity with parietal cells in paraffin sections of rat, dog and pig stomach. The poly-N-acetyllactosamine-specific lectin from Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) and from Solanum tuberosum (potato), and the galactose-specific lectin Ricinus communis agglutinin (RCA120), showed strong cytoplasmic binding of parietal cells of all three species, with a pattern indicative of an intracellular membrane network. Binding to parietal cells was confirmed by double-labelling studies with parietal cell auto-antibodies from patients with autoimmune gastritis. Mucous cells and mucin also bound these lectins strongly. Other gastric cell types did not stain with either tomato or potato lectin, but stained weakly with RCA120. Electron-microscopic examination of lectin binding sites using biotinylated tomato lectin or RCA120 and streptavidin-gold, revealed specific binding to the luminal face of parietal cell tubulovesicular and canalicular membranes as well as the contents of mucous cell secretory granules. Tomato lectin and RCA120 reacted by lectin blotting with a major species of apparent molecular weight 60-90 X 10(3) Mr from rat, dog and pig gastric membranes. A tubulovesicular membrane fraction, enriched 10-fold for K(+)-dependent phosphatase activity, was also enriched three-fold for tomato lectin binding as assessed by a solid-phase lectin assay. The 60-90K (K = 10(3) Mr) component, in 125I-labelled detergent extracts of dog tubulovesicular membranes, bound to an affinity support of tomato lectin-Sepharose and was specifically eluted with N,N',N'-triacetylchitotriose. Digestion with N-glycanase collapsed the 60-90K component into a sharp 35K band. We conclude that: (1) a 60-90K membrane glycoprotein localised on the luminal face of tubulovesicles and canaliculi of parietal cells interacts strongly with tomato lectin and RCA120; and (2) the glycoprotein is composed of a 35K core protein glycosylated with N-glycans probably containing poly-N-acetyllactosamine sequences with terminal galactosyl residues. The properties of this 60-90K glycoprotein are identical to a major parietal cell autoantigen recognised by sera of patients with autoimmune gastritis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Poly-N-acetyllactosamine-specific tomato lectin interacts with gastric parietal cells. Identification of a tomato-lectin binding 60-90 X 10(3) Mr membrane glycoprotein of tubulovesicles. 216 41

Supernatants prepared from disrupted Coxiella burnetii possess acid phosphatase (ACP) activity that apparently accounts for the inhibition of the metabolic burst of formyl-Met-Leu-Phe(fMLP)-stimulated human neutrophils. Results are presented regarding purification and biochemical-biological characterization of the ACP. The highly purified enzyme, which exhibited an apparent M(r) of 91 K and optimal activity at pH 5.0, also inhibited neutrophils. The enzyme retained full activity at pH 4.5, 5.5, and 7.4, when incubated overnight at 0 degrees C and room temperature; at pH 5.5, it retained full activity after overnight incubation at 37 degrees C. Apparently, the enzyme contains asparagine-linked but not serine- or threonine-linked glycan residues since its treatment with N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) decreased its M(r) to 87 K and no changes were detected with O-glycosidase. The enzyme's capacity to hydrolyze phosphate from a number of phosphate-containing compounds was examined; five phosphocompounds were significantly hydrolyzed: 5'-CMP > fructose 1,6-diphosphate > tyrosine phosphate > 3'-AMP > 5'-AMP. The ACP also dephosphorylated (32)P-Raytide, a phosphotyrosine-containing peptide. Dephosphorylation of Raytide was inhibited by the following phosphatase inhibitors: sodium molybdate, potassium fluoride, sodium ortho-vanadate and D2, a heteropolymolybdate compound. These results indicate that C. burnetii ACP may play a role in disrupting tyrosine phosphorylation/dephosphorylation reactions associated with the signal transduction pathway culminating in the metabolic burst. Interestingly, Western blot analysis of ACP-inhibited neutrophils showed a marked increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of a 44 K protein as compared to uninhibited cells.
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PMID:Protein-tyrosine phosphatase activity of Coxiella burnetii that inhibits human neutrophils. 917 54

O-Linked N-Acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a major form of post-translational modification found in nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins. Several authors have advanced the hypothesis according to which phosphorylation and O-GlcNAc glycosylation are reciprocally related to one another [1,2]. In order to test this hypothesis we have investigated the effect of a broad spectrum phosphatase inhibitor, okadaic acid (OA), generally used to induce protein hyperphosphorylation, on the GlcNAc content of cellular glycoproteins. We demonstrate that in neuronal cells lines OA decreases the level of O-GlcNAc in both nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins with a greater effect in the nuclear fraction. This phenomenon was demonstrated by the use of three different procedures for the detection of O-GlcNAc in conjunction with a systematic treatment with PNGase F. O-Linked GlcNAc was characterized using respectively lectin staining with WGA, galactosyltransferase labeling and metabolic labeling of cultured cells with [3H]glucosamine. Although the effects on individual proteins varied, a less pronounced effect was observed on HeLa or COS cell total homogenates. When Kelly cells were treated with OA, the major observation was a decrease in O-GlcNAc content of nuclear proteins. The measurement of the UDP-GlcNAc level clearly demonstrates that the decrease on the O-GlcNAc level in the neuroblastoma cell line after treatment with okadaic acid is not a consequence of the modification of the UDP-GlcNAc pool.
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PMID:Effect of okadaic acid on O-linked N-acetylglucosamine levels in a neuroblastoma cell line. 1057 27