Unraveling the Novel Structure and Biosynthetic Pathway of O-Linked Glycans in the Golgi Apparatus of the Human Pathogenic Yeast Cryptococcus neoformansopen access
- Authors
- Lee, Dong-Jik; Bahn, Yong-Sun; Kim, Hong-Jin; Chung, Seung-Yeon; Kang, Hyun Ah
- Issue Date
- Jan-2015
- Publisher
- AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, v.290, no.3, pp 1861 - 1873
- Pages
- 13
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
- Volume
- 290
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 1861
- End Page
- 1873
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/9968
- DOI
- 10.1074/jbc.M114.607705
- ISSN
- 0021-9258
1083-351X
- Abstract
- Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated basidiomycete causing cryptococcosis in immunocompromised humans. The cell surface mannoproteins of C. neoformans were reported to stimulate the host T-cell response and to be involved in fungal pathogenicity; however, their O-glycan structure is uncharacterized. In this study, we performed a detailed structural analysis of the O-glycans attached to cryptococcal mannoproteins using HPLC combined with exoglycosidase treatment and showed that the major C. neoformans O-glycans were short manno-oligosaccharides that were connected mostly by alpha 1,2-linkages but connected by an alpha 1,6-linkage at the third mannose residue. Comparison of the O-glycan profiles from wild-type and uxs1 Delta mutant strains strongly supports the presence of minor O-glycans carrying a xylose residue. Further analyses of C. neoformans mutant strains identified three mannosyltransferase genes involved in O-glycan extensions in the Golgi. C. neoformans KTR3, the only homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae KRE2/MNT1 family genes, was shown to encode an alpha 1,2-mannosyltransferase responsible for the addition of the second mannose residue via an alpha 1,2-linkage to the major O-glycans. C. neoformans HOC1 and HOC3, homologs of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae OCH1 family genes, were shown to encode alpha 1,6-mannosyltransferases that can transfer the third mannose residue, via an alpha 1,6-linkage, to minor O-glycans containing xylose and to major O-glycans without xylose, respectively. Moreover, the C. neoformans ktr3 Delta mutant strain, which displayed increased sensitivity to SDS, high salt, and high temperature, showed attenuated virulence in a mouse model of cryptococcosis, suggesting that the extended structure of O-glycans is required for cell integrity and full pathogenicity of C. neoformans.
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