Intracellular lectins are involved in quality control of glycoproteins.

ABSTRACT: Glycoprotein quality control is categorized into three kinds of reactions; the folding of nascent glycoproteins, ER-associated degradation of misfolded or unassembled glycoproteins, and transport and sorting of correctly folded glycoproteins. In all three processes, N-glycans on the glycoproteins are used as tags that are recognized by intracellular lectins. We analyzed the functions of these intracellular lectins and their sugar-binding specificities. The results clearly showed that the A, B, and C-arms of high mannose-type glycans participate in the folding, transport and sorting, and degradation, respectively, of newly synthesized peptides. After correctly folded glycoproteins are transported to the Golgi apparatus, N-glycans are trimmed into Man3GlcNAc2 and then rebuilt into various co

SUBMITTER: Yamamoto K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3948941 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature