2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Nucleotide sugar transporters: Structure and function, and physiological regulation
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11480172
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Structural biochemistry
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| Research Institution | Kogakuin University (2001)
Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research (1999-2000) |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWAKITA Masao Kogakuin University, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (00012740)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIKI Toshiaki Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research, the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Research Staff, 東京都臨床研, 研究員 (10239204)
AOKI Kazuhisa Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research, the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Research Staff, 東京都臨床研, 研究員 (00280785)
SAKAGUCHI Masayoshi Kogakuin University, Faculty of Engineering, Assistant (Apr. 200 1-Mar. 2002), 工学部, 助手 (80281351)
ISHIDA Nobuhiro Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research, the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Research Staff (Apr. 1999-Mar. 2001), 東京都臨床研, 研究員 (20291148)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Nucleotide sugar transporter / UDP-galactose / Glycobiology / Colon cancer / Glycoconjugates / UDP-N-acetylglucosamine / CMP-sialic acid |
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| Research Abstract |
Several nucleotide sugar transporters including human UDP-GlcNAc transporter, human CMP -sialic acid transporter, human UDP-GlcA/UDP-GalNAc/UDP-GlcNAc multi-specific transporter (hUGTrel7), Drosophila multi-specific UDP-sugar transporter (UST74C) were cloned and characterized. Substrate specificity of these transporters were convincingly defined by their functional expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Golgi membranes. HUGTrel7 is localized to the ER membranes and may be involved in glucuronidation of xenobiotics and the biosynthesis of proteoglycans. UST74C is the product of Drosophila frc gene whose defect results in phenotypes resembling wingless and Notch. Analysis of the phenotypes of frc mutants suggested that change s in nucleotide-sugar levels could differently affect these signaling pathways.
Molecular chimeras between UDP-Gal transporter and CMP-sialic acid transporter were constructed and analyzed in order to identify submolecular regions responsible for the determination of
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substrate specificity. We found that chimeras that contain transmembrane helices 2,3 and 7 derived from CMP-sialic acid transporter in the UDP-Gal transporter background could transport both UDP-Gal and CMP-sialic acid. This indicates that the regions which are critical for determining the substrate specificity of these two transporters resided in different submolecular sites in the two transporters, and that these different determinants could be present within one protein without interfering each other's function.
The amount of mRNA for UDP-Gal transporter was significantly increased in colon cancer tissues compared with nonmalignant mucosa tissues. The increase was more prominent in patients with advanced colorectal cancer of Duke's stages C and D. Transfection of UDP-Gal transporter cDNA to cultured colon cancer cells led to increased expression of Thomsen-Freidenreich antigen and of sialyl Lewis A and sialyl Lewis X determinants in transfected cells, which resulted in markedly enhanced cell adhesion to vascular E-selectin. These findings suggest that nucleotide sugar transporters can act as one of the regulatory elements of cellular behavior through their effects on the structure of cell surface glycoconjugates. Less
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[Publications] Kainuma, M., Ishida, N., Yoko-o, T., Yoshioka, S., Takeuchi, M., Kawakita, M. and Jigami, Y.: "Coexpression of α1,2 galactosyltransferase and UDP-galactose transporter efficiently galactosylates N- and O-glycans in Saccharomyces cerevisiae."Glycobiology. 9. 133-141 (1999)
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[Publications] Ishida, N., Yoshioka, S., lida, M., Sudo, K.. Miura, N., Aoki, K. and Kawakita, M.: "Indispensability of transmembrane domains of Golgi UDP-galactose transporter as revealed by analysis of genetic defects in UDP-galactose transporter-deficient murine Had-1 mutant cell lines and construction of deletion mutants"J. Biochem. 126. 1107-1117 (1999)
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[Publications] Kumamoto, K., Goto, Y, Sekikawa, K., Takenoshita, S., Ishida, N.. Kawakita, M. and Kannagi, R.: "Increased expression of UDP-galactose transporter messenger RNA in human colon cancer tissues and its implication in synthesis of Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen and sialyl Lewis A/X determinants"Cancer Res.. 61. 4620-4627 (2001)
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[Publications] Goto, S., Taniguchi, M., Muraoka, M., Toyoda, H., Sado, Y, Kawakita, M. and Hayasi, S.: "UDP-sugar transporter implicated in glycosylation and processing of Notch"Nature Cell Biol.. 3. 816-822 (2001)
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