Biosynthesis of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol lipids in Trypanosoma brucei: involvement of mannosyl-phosphoryldolichol as the mannose donor.
AUTOR(ES)
Menon, A K
RESUMO
Trypanosome variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs) exemplify a class of eukaryotic cell-surface glycoproteins that rely on a covalently attached lipid, glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol, for membrane attachment. The glycolipid anchor is acquired soon after translation of the polypeptide, apparently by replacement of a short sequence of carboxyl-terminal amino acids with a precursor glycolipid. A candidate glycolipid precursor (P2) and a related glycolipid (P3) have been identified in polar lipid extracts from trypanosomes. Both lipids are glycosylphosphatidylinositol species containing a Man3GlcN core glycan indistinguishable from the backbone sequence of the VSG glycolipid anchor. We and others have recently described the cell-free synthesis of P2, P3, and a spectrum of putative biosynthetic lipid intermediates using crude preparations of trypanosome membranes. In this paper we use these preparations to show that all three mannose residues in the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol glycan are derived from dolichol-P-mannose.
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