EFFECTS OF GLYCOSYLATION ON THE CONFORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF O-LINKED GLYCOPROTEINS - C-13 NMR-STUDIES OF OVINE SUBMAXILLARY MUCIN
EFFECTS OF GLYCOSYLATION ON THE CONFORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF O-LINKED GLYCOPROTEINS - C-13 NMR-STUDIES OF OVINE SUBMAXILLARY MUCIN
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00439a030
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发表时间:
1989-06-27
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
SHOGREN, R
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作者:
GERKEN, TA;BUTENHOF, KJ;SHOGREN, R
Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopic studies of native and sequentially deglycosylated ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) have been performed to examine the effects of glycosylation on the conformation and dynamics of the peptide core of O-linked glycoproteins. OSM is a large nonglobular glycoprotein in which nearly one-third of the amino acid residues are Ser and Thr which are glycoslyated by the .alpha.-Neu-NAc(2-6).alpha.-GalNAc-disaccharide. The .beta.-carbon resonances of glycosylated Ser and Thr residues in intact and asialo mucin display considerable chemical shift heterogeneity which, upon the complete removal of carbohydrate, coalesces to single sharp resonances. This chemical shift heterogeneity is due to peptide sequence variability and is proposed to reflect the presence of sequence-dependent conformations of the peptide core. These different conformations are thought to be determined by steric interactions of the GalNAc residue with adjacent peptide residues. The absence of chemical shift heterogeneity in apo mucin is taken to indicate a loss in the peptide-carbohydrate steric interactions, consistent with a more relaxed random coiled structure. On the basis of the 13C relaxation behavior (T1 and NOE) the dynamics of the .alpha.-carbons appear to be unique to each amino acid type and glycosylation state, with .alpha.-carbon mobilities decreasing in the order Gly > Ala = Ser > Thr .mchgt. monoglycosylated Ser/Thr .gtorsim. disaccharide linked Ser/Thr. The .alpha.-carbons of glycosylated Ser and Thr are considerably more constrained than their nonglycosylated counterparts in apo mucin, while the effects of carbohydrate side chain length (i.e., asialo vs native mucin) on the dynamics of the Ser and Thr residues is relatively small. The nonglycosylated Gly residue also exhibits an increase in motion upon removal of GalNAc; thus, the effects of glycosylation extend to residues beyond the amino acids directly bound to carbohydrate. These results are consistent with the changes in molecular dimensions determined by light-scattering techniques for the same series of modified mucins [Shogren et al. (preceding paper in this issue)]. Taken together, these results further demonstrate that mucins possess a highly expanded conformation that is dominated by steric interactions between the peptide core and the O-linked GalNAc residue.