Purification and characterization of human lymphoblast N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphodiester α-N-acety1g1ucosaminidase

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The enzyme N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphodiester α-N-acetylglucosaminidase (EC 3.1.4.45; uncovering enzyme) catalyzes the removal of N-acetylglucosamine from the N-acetylglucosamine-α-phospho-mannose portion of selected lysosomal enzyme oligosaccharide chains, thereby formimg the mannose 6-phosphate signal which is responsible for the targeting of these lysosomal enzymes for transport into lysosomes. The uncovering enzyme has been purified approximately 7000-fold to electrophoretic homogeneity from Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human lymphoblast cells. The purification sequence involves solubilizing this membrane-bound enzyme with Tergitol NP-10, affinity chromatography on Lentil lectin-Sepharose 4B, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel, chromatography on zinc(II)-IDA-Sepharose 6B, and preparative SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. The purified enzyme migrated as a single band of 114 kDa which was coincident with enzyme activity on analytical SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. Characterization studies of the purified enzyme demonstrated that catalytic activity was maximal at pH 6.95 and that the enzyme retained full activity following incubation for 10 min at 60°C. No requirement was found for a divalent cation, but Zn2+ Hg2+ and Cu2+ were found to reduce the enzyme's activity by 30–40%. The highest catalytic efficiency was observed with N-acetylglucosamine phospho-methylmannoside as a substrate while uridine diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine phosphomannose-uteroferrin, and N-acetylglucosamine phosphate were also cleaved by the enzyme with decreasing efficiency. Acetamino-deoxycastanospermine was a potent inhibitor of the human enzyme with a K1 of 0.35 μM, while N-acetylglucosamine phosphate (K1 1.58 mM) and N-acetylglucosamine (K1 5.1 mM) inhibited the enzyme to a lesser degree.

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