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¥3,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In an attempt to find novel biological functions for N-glycans, we screened mouse brain extracts for proteins bound to various sugar probes, and found Fbx2 an F-box protein, binds specifically to proteins attached with N-linked high-mannose type oligosaccharides, and subsequently contributes to ubiquitylation of N-glycosylated proteins. We propose that SCF^<Fbx2> ubiquitylaltes N-glycosylated proteins, which are translocated from the ER to the cytosol by the quality control mechanism. In this study, we found another F-box protein, Fbs6b that recognize N-glycans. Both Fbx2 and Fbx6b interacted with glycoproteins containing high-mannose oligosaccharides, whose protein modification occurs in the ER. X-ray crystallographic and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of the substrates-binding domain of Fbx2 revealed that Fbx2 recognized the inner chitobiose of high-mannose oligosaccharides by a small hydrophobic pocket located at the top of the β-barrel. Both Fbx2 and Fbx6b proteins interacted with denatured glycoproteins, which were modified with not only high-mannose but also complex-type oligosaccharides, more efficiently than native proteins. Given that Fbs proteins interact with innermost chitobiose in N-glycans, we propose that Fbs proteins distinguish native from unfolded glycoproteins by sensing the exposed chitobiose structure.
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