2012年1月
Chondroitin 4-O-sulfotransferase-2 regulates the number of chondroitin sulfate chains initiated by chondroitin N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-1
BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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- 巻
- 441
- 号
- 2
- 開始ページ
- 697
- 終了ページ
- 705
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1042/BJ20111472
- 出版者・発行元
- PORTLAND PRESS LTD
Recently, it has been shown that a deficiency in ChGn-1 (chondroitin N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-1) reduced the numbers of CS (chondroitin sulfate) chains, leading to skeletal dysplasias in mice. Although these results indicate that ChGn-1 regulates the number of CS chains, the mechanism mediating this regulation is not clear. ChGn-1 is thought to initiate CS biosynthesis by transferring the first GalNAc (N-acetylgalactosamine) to the tetrasaccharide in the protein linkage region of CS. However, in vitro chondroitin polymerization does not occur on the non-reducing terminal GalNAc-linkage pentasaccharide structure. In the present study we show that several different heteromeric enzyme complexes composed of different combinations of four chondroitin synthase family members synthesized more CS chains when a GalNAc-linkage pentasaccharide structure with a non-reducing terminal 4-O-sulfation was the CS acceptor. In addition, C4ST-2 (chondroitin 4-O-sulfotransferase-2) efficiently transferred sulfate from 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate to position 4 of non-reducing terminal GalNAc-linkage residues, and the number of CS chains was regulated by the expression levels of C4ST-2 and of ChGn-1. Taken together, the results of the present study indicate that C4ST-2 plays a key role in regulating levels of CS synthesized via ChGn-1.
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- DOI : 10.1042/BJ20111472
- ISSN : 0264-6021
- PubMed ID : 21942880
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000298976700016