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Glycolipid flip-flop across the ER during protein Nglycosylation<br />

Sumana Sanyal 1, 2 , Anant Menon 1 .<br />

Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University 1 , Whitehead Institute/MIT 2<br />

Abstract:<br />

N-glycosylation is an essential modification for most proteins entering the secretory pathway.<br />

The topological split in assembly of the core glycolipid donor (dolichol-PP-GlcNAc2Man9Glc3)<br />

required for N-glycosylation suggests that a key intermediate is translocated from the<br />

cytoplasmic to the lumenal face of the ER during this process. In addition lipid flip-flop is an<br />

essential step in transport of mannosyl phosphoryl dolichol (MPD), a glycolipid donor utilized in<br />

the ER lumen for a number of biosynthetic pathways. We reconstituted ATP-independent,<br />

protein-mediated, rapid transport of both the dolichol-linked oligosaccharide intermediate, dol-<br />

PP-GlcNAc2Man5 (M5-DLO) as well as MPD, in proteoliposomes generated from a Triton X-<br />

100 extract (TE) of rat-liver microsomes. The lectin Concanavalin A was used to probe the<br />

transbilayer distribution of M5-DLO in intact unilamellar vesicles, while MPD flipping was<br />

monitored through chemical oxidation of a full-length radiolabeled version of MPD. We<br />

resolved the ER resident M5-DLO and MPD flippase activities using traditional<br />

chromatographic separations and fractionated each to ~20-fold enrichment. Using an activity<br />

enriched fraction we showed that the M5-DLO flippase displays remarkable specificity in<br />

translocating intermediates of the N-glycosylation pathway. Specificity was defined by<br />

reconstituting lipid intermediates with varying glycan headgroups, including a structural isomer<br />

of M5-DLO (iM5-DLO). Kinetic analyses indicated that DLOs larger than M5-DLO are poorly<br />

translocated by the flippase; in addition, its structural isomer iM5-DLO was also transported<br />

~100 fold more slowly, suggesting that they are all suboptimal flippase substrates. Similarly,<br />

MPD flippase activity displayed a preference for the physiological substrate (β-MPD) over a<br />

non-natural substrate (α-MPD). Our results suggest a simple structural correlation for the<br />

interaction between ER flippases and their respective substrates.

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