PROTEIN O-GLYCOSYLATION IN SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE - PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DOLICHYL-PHOSPHATE-D-MANNOSE-PROTEIN O-D-MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE

The enzyme dolichyl-phosphate-D-mannose:protein O-D-mannosyltransferase has been solubilized from Saccharomyces cerevisiae membranes and its mannosyltransferase activity demonstrated using short peptides. The specific activity of the protein was enriched 130-fold before it was further purified by native and SDS gel chromatography. A 92-kDa band correlated well with the enzyme activity; an antibody raised against this protein precipitated the mannosyltransferase. The 92-kDa band was hydrolysed to 84 kDa after treatment with endoglycosidase F, indicating that the protein is a glycoprotein which may contain four carbohydrate chains. The purified mannosyltransferase is distinctly influenced in transfer specificity by amino acids next to serine and threonine within the acceptor peptides. Thus acidic amino acids strongly inhibit acceptor activity as do glycine and proline residues as amino-terminal and carboxy-terminal neighbours, respectively.