O-mannosylation precedes and potentially controls the N-glycosylation of a yeast cell wall glycoprotein

EMBO Rep. 2003 Jun;4(6):628-32. doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor864.

Abstract

Secretory proteins in yeast are N- and O-glycosylated while they enter the endoplasmic reticulum. N-glycosylation is initiated by the oligosaccharyl transferase complex and O-mannosylation is initiated by distinct O-mannosyltransferase complexes of the protein mannosyl transferase Pmt1/Pmt2 and Pmt4 families. Using covalently linked cell-wall protein 5 (Ccw5) as a model, we show that the Pmt4 and Pmt1/Pmt2 mannosyltransferases glycosylate different domains of the Ccw5 protein, thereby mannosylating several consecutive serine and threonine residues. In addition, it is shown that O-mannosylation by Pmt4 prevents N-glycosylation by blocking the hydroxy amino acid of the single N-glycosylation site present in Ccw5. These data prove that the O- and N-glycosylation machineries compete for Ccw5; therefore O-mannosylation by Pmt4 precedes N-glycosylation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Motifs
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Blotting, Western
  • Cell Wall / metabolism*
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum / metabolism
  • Fungal Proteins / metabolism
  • Glycoproteins / metabolism
  • Glycosylation
  • Mannose / chemistry*
  • Mannosyltransferases / chemistry*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / metabolism*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / chemistry*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / physiology
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

Substances

  • CIS3 protein, S cerevisiae
  • Fungal Proteins
  • Glycoproteins
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
  • Mannosyltransferases
  • Mannose