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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2015

Role of Deacetylase Activity of N-Deacetylase/N-Sulfotransferase 1 in Forming N-Sulfated Domain in Heparan Sulfate.

Wenfang Dou, Yongmei Xu, Vijayakanth Pagadala, Lars C Pedersen, Jian Liu

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Wenfang DouFrom the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China, and.
Yongmei XuFrom the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599.
Vijayakanth PagadalaFrom the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599.
Lars C Pedersenthe Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.
Jian LiuFrom the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, jian_liu@unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USJiangnan University · CNNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Crystallographic studies of macromolecular structuresZIAES102645 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PEDERSEN, LARS · 2009 to 2017
$9.4M
In vitro synthesis of recombinant heparan sulfateR01HL094463 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIU, JIAN, PAWLINSKI, RAFAL L · 2009 to 2021
$5.2M
Uncovering the controlling mechanisms in heparan sulfate biosynthesisU01GM102137 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIU, JIAN · 2013 to 2016
$1.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES102645NHLBI NIH HHS HL094463NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL094463NIGMS NIH HHS GM102137NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM102137
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heparan sulfate (HS) is a highly sulfated polysaccharide that plays important physiological roles. The biosynthesis of HS involves a series of enzymes, including glycosyltransferases (or HS polymerase), epimerase, and sulfotransferases. N-Deacetylase/N-Sulfotransferase isoform 1 (NDST-1) is a critical enzyme in this pathway. NDST-1, a bifunctional enzyme, displays N-deacetylase and N-sulfotransferase activities to convert an N-acetylated glucosamine residue to an N-sulfo glucosamine residue. Here, we report the cooperative effects between N-deacetylase and N-sulfotransferase activities. Using baculovirus expression in insect cells, we obtained three recombinant proteins: full-length NDST-1 and the individual N-deacetylase and N-sulfotransferase domains. Structurally defined oligosaccharide substrates were synthesized to test the substrate specificities of the enzymes. We discovered that N-deacetylation is the limiting step and that interplay between the N-sulfotransferase and N-deacetylase accelerates the reaction. Furthermore, combining the individually expressed N-deacetylase and N-sulfotransferase domains produced different sulfation patterns when compared with that made by the NDST-1 enzyme. Our data demonstrate the essential role of domain cooperation within NDST-1 in producing HS with specific domain structures.

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Carbohydrate SequenceHeparan SulfateMolecular Sequence DataSubstrate SpecificitySulfotransferasesTandem Mass SpectrometryHeparan Sulfateheparitin sulfotransferaseSulfotransferasescarbohydrate biosynthesisheparan sulfateheparinoligosaccharidesulfotransferase

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PMID26109066
PMCPMC4536448
OpenAlexW1501517224

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