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Published on: October 4, 2017
Site-specific glycosylation at Asn-292 in ovalbumin is essential to efficient secretion in yeast
Kazunari Ito1, Akiko Seri, Fukiko Kimura
1Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan.
Abstract:
Chicken ovalbumin (OVA) exists as mono-N-glycosylated form with a carbohydrate chain on Asn-292 in egg white, despite the possession of two potential N-glycosylation sites. To investigate the roles of N-glycosylation of OVA, we constructed a series of N-glycosylation mutants deleted N-glycosylation site and compared the secretion level of the mutants in Pichia pastoris. N292Q and N292/311Q mutants resulted in greater lowering of the secretion level as compared with wild-type, whereas N311Q mutant was secreted in approximately equal amounts to wild-type. However, secretion of wild-type and N311Q mutant was inhibited completely by tunicamycin treatment. All the N-glycosylation mutants have been expressed in the cells, as well as wild-type. Circular dichroism and fluorescence spectra of secreted N311Q mutant were almost identical to those of wild-type, while those of N292Q and N292/311Q mutants were different from wild-type; and, N292Q and N292/311Q mutants showed considerably lower denaturation temperature than wild-type. The results indicate that N-glycosylation at Asn-292 of OVA is required for the folding and secretion.
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