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Substitution of the N-glycan function in glycosyltransferases by specific amino acids: ST3Gal-V as a model enzyme. The sialyltranferase ST3Gal-V transfers a sialic acid to lactosylceramide. We investigated the role of each of the N-glycans modifying mouse ST3Gal-V (mST3Gal-V) by measuring the in vitro enzyme activity of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected with ST3Gal-V cDNA or its mutants. By examining mutants of mST3Gal-V, in which each asparagine was replaced with glutamine (N180Q, N224Q, N334Q), we determined that all three sites are N-glycosylated and that each N-glycan is required for enzyme activity. Despite their importance, N-glycosylation sites in ST3Gal-V are not conserved among species. Therefore, we considered whether the function in the activity that is performed in mST3Gal-V by the N-glycan could be substituted for by specific amino acid residues selected from the ST3Gal-V of other species or from related sialyltransferases (ST3Gal-I, -II, -III, and -IV), placed at or near the glycosylation sites. To this end, we constructed a series of interspecies mutants for mST3Gal-V, specifically, mST3Gal-V-H177D-N180S (medaka or tetraodon type), mST3Gal-V-N224K (human type), and mST3Gal-V-T336Q (zebrafish type). The ST3Gal-V activity of these mutants was quite similar to that of the wild-type enzyme. Thus, we have demonstrated here that the N-glycans on mST3Gal-V are required for activity but can be substituted for specific amino acid residues placed at or near the glycosylation sites. We named this method SUNGA (substitution of N-glycan functions in glycosyltransferases by specific amino acids). Furthermore, we verified that the ST3Gal-V mutant created using the SUNGA method maintains its high activity when expressed in Escherichia coli thereby establishing the usefulness of the SUNGA method in exploring the function of N-glycans in vivo.
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