Studies on incorporation of mannose into rat α₁-acid glycoprotein: evidence for precursor forms in rough membranes

Abstract

Rats were given pulse injections of D-[14C]mannose and were killed at various times up to 60 min after injection. Rough, smooth, and Golgi fractions were prepared from liver, and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein was isolated from Lubrol extracts of the fractions. The kinetics of incorporation of D-[14C]mannose into total protein, Lubrol protein, and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein showed that proteins associated with rough fractions had particularly high specific radioactivities at early times of incorporation. One explanation for the kinetic data is that glycoproteins contain a high mannose content at early times of assembly of oligosaccharide chains. This idea was confirmed in the case of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein by isolation of a high mannose containing precursor species of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein from rough fractions of liver. This species contained 56 residues of hexose (mainly mannose) compared with 35 residues of hexose (roughly equal amounts of mannose and galactose) which are found in the native protein. It is proposed that the high mannose precursor is a form of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein that exists at an early stage in assembly of the glycoprotein and which contains largely unprocessed carbohydrate chains. In addition, evidence is presented from amino acid analyses and gel electrophoresis of the high mannose precursor and another fraction from which it is formed by limited tryptic treatment, that pro-forms of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein with extensions of the polypeptide chain may also exist.

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