J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 33, 17360-17365, Nov, 1988

Characterization of dolichol diphosphate oligosaccharide: protein oligosaccharyltransferase and glycoprotein-processing glucosidases occurring in trypanosomatid protozoa

M Bosch, S Trombetta, U Engstrom and AJ Parodi
Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquimicas, Fundacion Campomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

We have previously reported that the oligosaccharides transferred in vivo from dolichol-P-P derivatives in protein N-glycosylation in trypanosomatids are devoid of glucose residues and contain 2 N- acetylglucosamine and 6, 7, or 9 mannose units depending on the species. In this respect trypanosomatids differ from wild type mammalian, plant, insect, and fungal cells in which Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 is transferred. We are now reporting that incubation of Glc1-3Man9GlcNAc2- P-P-dolichol and Man7-9GlcNAc2-P-P-dolichol with membranes of Trypanosoma cruzi, Leptomonas samueli, Crithidia fasciculata, and Blastocrithidia culicis and an acceptor hexapeptide leads to the transfer of the six above mentioned lipid-linked oligosaccharides at the same rate. Control experiments performed under similar conditions but with rat liver and Saccharomyces cerevisiae membranes showed that, as already known, Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 is preferentially transferred in the latter systems. We have also previously reported that, once transferred to protein, the oligosaccharides become transiently glucosylated in trypanosomatids. Depending on the species, protein-linked Glc1Man5- 9GlcNAc2 have been transiently detected in cells incubated with [14C] glucose. We are now reporting that glucosidase activities degrading both Glc1Man9GlcNAc2 and Glc2Man9GlcNAc2 were detected in T. cruzi, L. samueli, and C. fasciculata. The enzymatic activities were associated with a membrane fraction; they had a neutral optimum pH value, and similarly to mammalian glucosidase II, the enzyme acting on the monoglucosylated substrate showed a decreased affinity when the latter contained fewer mannose residues. No glucosidase I-like enzyme acting on Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 was detected in any of the three above-mentioned protozoan species. This result is consistent with the fact that no oligosaccharides containing 3 glucose units occur in trypanosomatids.
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