Abstract
The factors determining glycosylation of mucin type glycoproteins are not well understood. In the present work, we investigated the role of the peptide moiety and of the presence of O-glycan chains on O-glycosylation by UDP-GalNAc: polypeptide alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminyl-transferase (ppGalNAc-T). We used purified ppGalNAc-T from bovine colostrum and a series of synthetic glycopeptide and peptide substrates most of which contained sequences derived from the tandem repeat region of MUC2 mucin. The rate of incorporation of GalNAc into Thr was significantly greater than toward Ser residues. The presence of one or two GalNAc-Thr moieties in the substrate significantly reduced enzyme activity, and this effect was more pronounced when the disaccharide Gal beta 1-3GalNAc was present. Thus the sequential attachment of a second GalNAc residue in the vicinity of a pre-existing GalNAc-Thr or Gal beta 1-3GalNAc-Thr occurs at a slower rate than primary glycosylation of carbohydrate-free peptide. Analysis of products by HPLC showed that the enzyme was selective in glycosylating peptides or glycopeptides with the PTTTPIST sequence in that the preferred primary glycosylation site was the third Thr from the amino-terminal end; secondary glycosylation depended on the site of the primary glycosylation. Negatively but not positively charged amino acids on the carboxy-terminal side of the putative secondary glycosylation site resulted in high activity suggesting charge-charge interactions of substrates with the enzyme. These studies indicate that O-glycosylation by bovine colostrum ppGalNAc-T is a selective process dependent on both the amino acid sequence and prior glycosylation of peptide substrates.
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