Tyrosinase and glycoprotein folding: Roles of chaperones that recognize glycans
Tyrosinase and glycoprotein folding: Roles of chaperones that recognize glycans
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DOI:
10.1021/bi000107z
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发表时间:
2000-05-09
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2.9
通讯作者:
Dwek, RA
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作者:
Petrescu, SM;Branza-Nichita, N;Dwek, RA
Glycoprotein folding is regulated in the ER by multiple mechanisms destined to enable the polypeptide chain to acquire the unique 3D structure of the native glycoprotein. It is widely held that the efficiency of the folding depends on the interaction of the folding polypeptide with ER-resident molecular chaperones. There certainly are distinct differences among the ER chaperones that can be described in terms of specificity toward the recognition elements exposed by the nascent polypeptide chain. Whereas most of the chaperones identify regions in the polypeptide moiety, two chaperones, calnexin and calreticulin, are known to modulate the folding of the nascent chain through their interaction with the attached N-glycans. Calnexin/calreticulin interaction with the nascent glycoprotein is mediated by the monoglucosylated N-glycans carried by every single glycoprotein in the early stages of the N-glycan processing. The important finding that a lectin-like interaction promotes efficient folding provides glycobiology with a fundamental concept for understanding the roles of N-glycosylation in glycoprotein function. Most strikingly, the early N-glycan processing stages are related to the chaperone-mediated folding of the nascent polypeptide, thus contributing to the quality control mechanism in the ER.A number of studies have used in vitro translation systems to highlight specific interactions between the chaperones calnexin and calreticulin and the newly synthesized glycoproteins (1, 2). These glycoproteins depend on their interaction with the ER lectins in terms of competence for export from the ER and resistance to degradation (3, 4). Therefore, export from the ER is taken as an indication of secretory proteins having reached their native state (5). How does this concept stand up when we look for confirmation in in vivo systems? Recent in vivo studies using mouse melanoma tyrosinase show that although tyrosinase activity and folding are absolutely dependent on the interaction with calnexin, the bypass of this quality control does not impair the intracellular transport of the glycoprotein (6, 7). Two important points follow from this. First, there is the confirmation that calnexin/calreticulin association with the nascent glycoprotein chain is crucial for the correct folding in vivo, as has been shown for in vitro systems. Second, it appears that the export competence concept might not apply to all proteins and in particular to metalloglycoproteins such as tyrosinase.