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Mol. Cells 2007; 24(3): 416-423

Published online January 1, 1970

© The Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology

Increased α2,3-Sialylation and Hyperglycosylation of N-Glycans in Embryonic Rat Cortical Neurons During Camptothecin-induced Apoptosis

Sung-Min Kim, Jung-Sun Lee, Yoon-Hee Lee, Woo-Jung Kim, Su-Il Do, Young-Kug Choo and Yong-Il Park

Abstract

Alterations in the glycan chains of cell surface glycoconjugates are frequently involved biological processes such as cell-cell interaction, cell migration, differentiation and development. Cultured embryonic (E18) rat cortical neurons underwent apoptosis in response to camptothecin, and lectin histochemistry showed that binding to apoptotic neurons of FITC-conjugated Maackia amurensis agglutinin (MAA), which is specific for terminal α2,3-sialic acid residues, increased progressively with increasing concentrations of camptothecin. Analysis of the total proteins of apoptotic neurons by SDS-PAGE, and lectin blotting using HRP-labeled MAA, revealed that the expression of terminal α2,3-sialic acid residues on an unknown protein with an apparent molecular mass of 25.6 kDa also increased in apoptotic neurons. NP-HPLC analysis of the total cellular N-glycans of normal and apoptotic neurons demonstrated that the expression of structurally simpler biantennary types of N-glycans fell by 49% during apoptosis whereas the more branched triantennary types of N-glycans with terminal sialic acid residues increased by up to 59%. These results suggest that increased surface expression of α2,3-sialic acid residues and hyperglycosylation of N-glycans is a common feature of cellular responses to changes in cell physiology such as tumorigenesis and apoptosis.

Keywords Apoptosis; Embryonic Rat Cortical Neurons; Hyperglycosylation; N-Glycans; Sialomolecules.

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Mol. Cells 2007; 24(3): 416-423

Published online December 31, 2007

Copyright © The Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Increased α2,3-Sialylation and Hyperglycosylation of N-Glycans in Embryonic Rat Cortical Neurons During Camptothecin-induced Apoptosis

Sung-Min Kim, Jung-Sun Lee, Yoon-Hee Lee, Woo-Jung Kim, Su-Il Do, Young-Kug Choo and Yong-Il Park

Abstract

Alterations in the glycan chains of cell surface glycoconjugates are frequently involved biological processes such as cell-cell interaction, cell migration, differentiation and development. Cultured embryonic (E18) rat cortical neurons underwent apoptosis in response to camptothecin, and lectin histochemistry showed that binding to apoptotic neurons of FITC-conjugated Maackia amurensis agglutinin (MAA), which is specific for terminal α2,3-sialic acid residues, increased progressively with increasing concentrations of camptothecin. Analysis of the total proteins of apoptotic neurons by SDS-PAGE, and lectin blotting using HRP-labeled MAA, revealed that the expression of terminal α2,3-sialic acid residues on an unknown protein with an apparent molecular mass of 25.6 kDa also increased in apoptotic neurons. NP-HPLC analysis of the total cellular N-glycans of normal and apoptotic neurons demonstrated that the expression of structurally simpler biantennary types of N-glycans fell by 49% during apoptosis whereas the more branched triantennary types of N-glycans with terminal sialic acid residues increased by up to 59%. These results suggest that increased surface expression of α2,3-sialic acid residues and hyperglycosylation of N-glycans is a common feature of cellular responses to changes in cell physiology such as tumorigenesis and apoptosis.

Keywords: Apoptosis, Embryonic Rat Cortical Neurons, Hyperglycosylation, N-Glycans, Sialomolecules.

Mol. Cells
Jun 30, 2023 Vol.46 No.6, pp. 329~398
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The cellular proteostasis network is adaptively modulated upon cellular stress, thereby protecting cells from proteostasis collapse. Heat shock induces the translocation of misfolded proteins and the chaperone protein HSP70 into nucleolus, where nuclear protein quality control primarily occurs. Nuclear RNA export factor 1 (green), nucleolar protein fibrillarin (red), and nuclei (blue) were visualized in NIH3T3 cells under basal (left) and heat shock (right) conditions (Park et al., pp. 374-386).

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