N-Glycosylation and in vitro enzymic activity of human recombinant tissue plasminogen activator expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells and a murine cell line
- 19 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 28 (19), 7670-7679
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00445a023
Abstract
To probe the effects of N-glycosylation of the fibrin-dependent plasminogenolytic activity of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), we have expressed a human recombinant t-PA (rt-PA) gene in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells and in murine C127 cell line. The resulting rt-PA glycoproteins were isolated and their associated N-linked oligosaccharide structures determined by using a combination of high-resolution Bio-Gel P-4 gel filtration chromatography, sequential exoglycosidase digestion, and methylation analysis. The results show that CHO rt-PA is N-glycosylated differently from murine C127 derived rt-PA. Further, both rt-PA''s are N-glycosylated differently from t-PA derived from a human colon fibroblast and the Bowes melanoma cell line (Parekh et al., 1989), confirming that N-glycosylation of the human t-PA polypeptide is cell-type-specific. Both CHO and murine rt-PA were fractionated on lysine-Sepharose chromatography. The N-glycosylation of the major forms was analyzed and their fibrin-dependent plasminogenolytic activity determined by using an indirect amidolytic assay with Glu-plasminogen and a chromogenic plasmin substrate. The results suggest that the various forms of rt-PA differ from one another with respect to the kinetics of their fibrin-dependent activation of plasminogen. Together, these data support the notion (Wittwer et al., 1989) that N-glycosylation influences the fibrin-dependent catalytic activity of t-PA and that t-PA when expressed in different cell lines may consist of kinetically and structurally distinct glycoforms.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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