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. 1994 Oct 7;269(40):24953-8.

Characterization of a cell mutant specifically defective in the synthesis of anticoagulantly active heparan sulfate

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Characterization of a cell mutant specifically defective in the synthesis of anticoagulantly active heparan sulfate

S Colliec-Jouault et al. J Biol Chem. .
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Abstract

We have investigated the characteristics of clonal L cell mutant VI-7 that has previously been demonstrated to exhibit reduced levels of cell surface proteoglycans containing heparan sulfate (HS) with regions of defined monosaccharide sequence that interact with antithrombin (HSact) (de Agostini, A. L., Lau, H. K., Leone, C., Youssoufian, H., and Rosenberg, R. D. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 9784-9788). Pulse labeling revealed that the synthesis of HSact in mutant cells, as compared to wild-type cells, was reduced by 5-7-fold, which is identical to the previously observed reduction in cell surface-bound antithrombin. This alteration is independent of growth state since production of HSact by mutant cells, as compared to wild-type cells, is decreased to a similar extent in exponentially growing and post-confluent cultures. The synthetic defect was specific for HSact since production of total HS and chondroitin sulfate by mutant cells, as compared to wild-type cells, was identical in magnitude. The synthetic abnormality is not due to an alteration in core protein since complementation was not observed when mutant cells were stably transfected with the epitope-tagged ryudocan cDNA which can initiate HSact production. Structural analyses revealed that HS from mutant cells, as compared to wild-type cells, exhibited normal molecular weight, extent and distribution of sulfate, and disaccharide composition, which indicate that the mutation did not affect HS biosynthetic enzymes. Together, the data suggest that mutant VI-7 is defective in a regulatory component which directly or indirectly coordinates HS biosynthetic enzymes to specifically generate the defined monosaccharide sequence of HSact.

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