PMID:12829714

Citation	Ten Hagen, KG, Tran, DT, Gerken, TA, Stein, DS and Zhang, Z (2003) Functional characterization and expression analysis of members of the UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase family from Drosophila melanogaster. J. Biol. Chem. 278:35039-48
Abstract	Here we report the cloning and functional characterization of eight members of the UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase gene family from Drosophila melanogaster (polypeptide GalNAc transferase = pgant1-8). Full-length cDNAs were isolated from a Drosophila embryonic library based on homology to known ppGaNTases. Alignments with characterized mammalian isoforms revealed strong sequence similarities between certain fly and mammalian isoforms, highlighting putative orthologues between the species. In vitro activity assays demonstrated biochemical transferase activity for each gene, with three isoforms requiring glycosylated substrates. Comparison of the activities of Drosophila and mammalian orthologues revealed conservation of substrate preferences against a panel of peptide and glycopeptide substrates. Furthermore, Edman degradation analysis demonstrated that preferred sites of GalNac addition were also conserved between certain fly and mammalian orthologues. Semi-quantitative PCR amplification of Drosophila cDNA revealed expression of most isoforms at each developmental stage, with some isoforms being less abundant at certain stages relative to others. In situ hybridization to Drosophila embryos revealed specific staining of pgant5 and pgant6 in the salivary glands and pgant5 in the developing hindgut. Additionally, pgant5 and pgant6 expression within the egg chamber was restricted to the follicle cells, cells known to be involved in egg formation and subsequent embryonic patterning. The characterization reported here provides additional insight into the use of this model system to dissect the biological role of this enzyme family in vivo during both fly and mammalian development.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M303836200
Keywords	Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Base Sequence; DNA Primers; DNA, Complementary/genetics; DNA, Complementary/isolation & purification; Drosophila melanogaster/embryology; Drosophila melanogaster/enzymology; Drosophila melanogaster/genetics; Embryo, Nonmammalian/enzymology; Genomic Library; In Situ Hybridization; Isoenzymes/chemistry; Isoenzymes/genetics; Isoenzymes/metabolism; Mammals; Molecular Sequence Data; Multigene Family; N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases/genetics; N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases/metabolism; Oocytes/enzymology; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Substrate Specificity
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