JBC, Vol. 253, Issue 1, 160-165, Jan, 1978
Biosynthesis of P1-di-N-acetyl-alpha-chitobiosyl P2-dolichyl pyrophosphate in calf pancreas microsomes
A. Herscovics, C. D. Warren, B. Bugge and R. W. Jeanloz
Calf pancreas microsomes incubated with UDP-N-acetyl-D-[14C] glucosamine in
the presence of Mn2+ incorporated radioactivity into
P1-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranosyl P2-dolichyl pyrophosphate and
P1-di-N-acetyl-alpha-chitobiosyl P2-dolichyl pyrophosphate. The formation
of both glycolipids was enhanced to the same extent by exogenous dolichyl
phosphate. Labeled P1-di-N-acetyl-alpha-chitobiosyl P2-dolichyl
pyrophosphate was formed from synthetic
P1-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl P2-dolichyl pyrophosphate and
from prelabeled pancreatic P1-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl
P2-dolichyl pyrophosphate without the addition of divalent cation. Upon
thin layer chromatography, it had the same mobility as synthetic
P1-di-N-acetyl-alpha-chitobiosyl P2-dolichyl pyrophosphate recently
synthesized by Warren et al. (Warren, C. D., Herscovics, A., and Jeanloz,
R. W. (1977) Carbohydr. Res., in press), but was different from the
synthetic compound prepared by Wedgwood et al. (Wedgwood, J. F., Warren, C.
D., Jeanloz, R. W., and Strominger, J. L. (1974) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.
S. A. 71, 5022-5026).