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Liberation of oligosaccharides from glycosphingolipids on PC12 cell surface with endoglycoceramidase

1989; Elsevier BV; Volume: 162; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0006-291x(89)90785-7

1090-2104

Maija-Liisa Rasilo, Makoto Ito, Tatsuya Yamagata,

Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis

Endoglycoceramidase (EGCase) cleaves the linkage between the oligosaccharide and ceramide of glycosphingolipids (Ito, M., and Yamagata, T., J. Biol. Chem. 261, 14278–14282, ibid, 264, in press). Intact cells of rat pheochromocytoma line PC12 were treated with the highly purified EGCase I and the oligosaccharides released were analyzed by HPLC. Cleavage of the oligosaccharides with the enzyme reached a plateau as the amount of the enzyme was increased. At maximum, 42% of the oligosaccharides from globoside, 40% from GalGb3Cer, and 60% from Gb3Cer were liberated during 1h of incubation without impairing the viability of cells. The only partial liberation indicates that not all oligosaccharides of cell surface glycosphingolipids are accessible to the enzyme. The use of EGCase offers an important new method to access the functions of glycosphingolipids on cell surface in situ.