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- Li, Jin-Ping, et al.
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Biosynthesis of heparin / heparan sulfate : cDNA cloning and expression of D-glucuronyl C5-epimerase from bovine lung
- 1997
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Ingår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - : Elsevier BV. - 0021-9258 .- 1083-351X. ; 272:44, s. 28158-28163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Glucuronyl C5-epimerases catalyze the conversion of D-glucuronic acid (GlcUA) to L-iduronic acid (IdceA) units during the biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycans. An epimerase implicated in the generation of heparin/heparan sulfate was previously purified to homogeneity from bovine liver (Campbell, P., Hannesson, H. H., Sandbäck, D., Rodén, L., Lindahl, U., and Li, J.-p. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 26953-26958). The present report describes the molecular cloning and functional expression of the lung enzyme. The cloned enzyme contains 444 amino acid residues and has a molecular mass of 49,905 Da. N-terminal sequence analysis of the isolated liver enzyme showed this species to be a truncated form lacking a 73-residue N-terminal domain of the deduced amino acid sequence. The coding cDNA insert was cloned into a baculovirus expression vector and expressed in Sf9 insect cells. Cells infected with recombinant epimerase showed a 20-30-fold increase in enzyme activity, measured as release of 3H2O from a polysaccharide substrate containing C5-3H-labeled hexuronic acid units. Furthermore, incubation of the expressed protein with the appropriate (GlcUA-GlcNSO3)n substrate resulted in conversion of approximately 20% of the GlcUA units into IdceA residues. Northern analysis implicated two epimerase transcripts in both bovine lung and liver tissues, a dominant approximately 9-kilobase (kb) mRNA and a minor approximately 5-kb species. Mouse mastocytoma cells showed only the approximately 5-kb transcript. A comparison of the cloned epimerase with the enzymes catalyzing an analogous reaction in alginate biosynthesis revealed no apparent amino acid sequence similarity.
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- Sandbäck Pikas, Dagmar, et al.
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Substrate recognition by heparanase
- 1995
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Ingår i: GLYCO XIII: XIIIth International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, seattle, USA, August 20-26.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Sandbäck Pikas, Dagmar, et al.
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Substrate specificity of heparanases from human hepatoma and platelets
- 1998
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Ingår i: Journal of chemical biology. - : Elsevier BV. - 1864-6158 .- 1864-6166. ; 273, s. 18770-18777
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Heparan sulfate proteoglycans, attached to cell surfaces or in the extracellular matrix, interact with a multitude of proteins via their heparan sulfate side chains. Degradation of these chains by limited (endoglycosidic) heparanase cleavage is believed to affect a variety of biological processes. Although the occurrence of heparanase activity in mammalian tissues has been recognized for many years, the molecular characteristics and substrate recognition properties of the enzyme(s) have remained elusive. In the present study, the substrate specificity and cleavage site of heparanase from human hepatoma and platelets were investigated. Both enzyme preparations were found to cleave the single beta-D-glucuronidic linkage of a heparin octasaccharide. A capsular polysaccharide from Escherichia coli K5, with the same (-GlcUAbeta1,4-GlcNAcalpha1,4-)n structure as the unmodified backbone of heparan sulfate, resisted heparanase degradation in its native state as well as after chemical N-deacetylation/N-sulfation or partial enzymatic C-5 epimerization of beta-D-GlcUA to alpha-L-IdceA. By contrast, a chemically O-sulfated (but still N-acetylated) K5 derivative was susceptible to heparanase cleavage. O-Sulfate groups, but not N-sulfate or IdceA residues, thus are essential for substrate recognition by the heparanase(s). In particular, selective O-desulfation of the heparin octasaccharide implicated a 2-O-sulfate group on a hexuronic acid residue located two monosaccharide units from the cleavage site, toward the reducing end.
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