Demonstration of peptide:N-glycosidase F activity in endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F preparations

J Biol Chem. 1984 Sep 10;259(17):10700-4.

Abstract

Endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F preparations from Flavobacterium meningosepticum have been found to contain peptide:N-glycosidase activity. Only the second activity, designated as peptide:N-glycosidase F, readily cleaves the beta-aspartylglycosylamine linkage of a fetuin triantennary complex glycopeptide, as shown by the isolation of the corresponding carbohydrate-free peptide containing aspartic acid and of an intact oligosaccharide with a di-N-acetylchitobiosyl moiety at the reducing end. Both activities in the mixture will hydrolyze a high mannose octaglycopeptide from ovalbumin, with the type of product formed being influenced by pH. At pH 4.0, only the endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F activity is functional, releasing octapeptide-GlcNAc and oligosaccharide-GlcNAc. At pH 9.3, the predominant cleavage is by peptide:N-glycosidase F at the glycosylamine bond, releasing octapeptide and oligosaccharide-GlcNAc-GlcNAc. This latter oligosaccharide is then hydrolyzed by endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F to oligosaccharide-GlcNAc plus GlcNAc.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Acetylglucosaminidase / isolation & purification*
  • Acetylglucosaminidase / metabolism
  • Amidohydrolases / isolation & purification*
  • Amidohydrolases / metabolism
  • Amino Acids / analysis
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Flavobacterium / enzymology*
  • Glycopeptides / analysis
  • Hexosamines / analysis
  • Hexosaminidases / isolation & purification*
  • Mannosyl-Glycoprotein Endo-beta-N-Acetylglucosaminidase
  • Ovalbumin
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Peptide-N4-(N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminyl) Asparagine Amidase
  • Pronase
  • Substrate Specificity
  • alpha-Fetoproteins

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Glycopeptides
  • Hexosamines
  • Peptide Fragments
  • alpha-Fetoproteins
  • Ovalbumin
  • Hexosaminidases
  • Acetylglucosaminidase
  • Mannosyl-Glycoprotein Endo-beta-N-Acetylglucosaminidase
  • Pronase
  • Amidohydrolases
  • Peptide-N4-(N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminyl) Asparagine Amidase