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Mol Cell Biol. 1988 February; 8(2): 674-678

No glycolipid anchors are added to Thy-1 glycoprotein in Thy-1-negative mutant thymoma cells of four different complementation classes.

A Conzelmann, A Spiazzi, C Bron and R Hyman

Institut de Biochimie, Université de Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland.

ABSTRACT

Recent evidence shows that the mature Thy-1 surface glycoprotein lacks the C-terminal amino acids 113 to 143 predicted from the cDNA sequence and is anchored in the plasma membrane by a complex, phosphatidylinositol-containing glycolipid attached to the alpha-carboxyl group of amino acid 112. Here we studied the biosynthesis of Thy-1 in two previously described and two newly isolated Thy-1-deficient mutant cell lines. Somatic cell hybridization indicated that their mutations affected some processing step rather than the Thy-1 structural gene. The Thy-1 made by mutants of classes C, F, and H bound detergent but, in contrast to wild-type Thy-1, their detergent-binding moieties could not be removed by phospholipase C. In addition, tryptophan, which only occurs in position 124, was incorporated into Thy-1 of these mutants but not of wild-type cells. Last, the Thy-1 of wild-type but not mutant cells could be radiolabeled with [3H]palmitic acid. Together, these findings strongly suggest that mutants of classes C, F, and H accumulate a biosynthetic intermediate of Thy-1 which retains at least part of the hydrophobic C-terminal peptide. The Thy-1 of these mutants remained endoglycosidase H sensitive, suggesting that it accumulated in the rough endoplasmic reticulum or the Cis-Golgi. A different Thy-1 intermediate was found in a class B mutant cell line: the Thy-1 of this mutant was 2 kilodaltons smaller than the Thy-1 of other cell lines, did not bind detergent, and was rapidly secreted via a normal secretory pathway.

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Mol Cell Biol. 1988 February; 8(2): 674-678

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