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O-glycosylation pattern of CD24 from mouse brain

  • Christina Bleckmann , Hildegard Geyer , Annika Lieberoth , Frauke Splittstoesser , Yan Liu , Ten Feizi , Melitta Schachner , Ralf Kleene , Vernon Reinhold and Rudolf Geyer
From the journal Biological Chemistry

Abstract

The cell adhesion molecule CD24 is a highly glycosylated glycoprotein that plays important roles in the central nervous system, the immune system and in tumor biology. Since CD24 comprises only a short protein core of approximately 30 amino acids and low conservation among species, it has been proposed that the functions of CD24 are mediated by its glycosylation pattern. Our present study provides evidence that interaction of CD24 with the cell adhesion molecule L1 is mediated by O-linked glycans carrying α2,3-linked sialic acid. Furthermore, de-N-glycosylated CD24 was shown to promote or inhibit neurite outgrowth of cerebellar neurons or dorsal root ganglion neurons, respectively, to the same extent as untreated CD24. Therefore, this study is focused on the structural elucidation of the chemically released, permethylated CD24 O-glycans by electrospray ionization ion trap mass spectrometry. Our analyses revealed the occurrence of a diverse mixture of mucin-type and O-mannosyl glycans carrying, in part, functionally relevant epitopes, such as 3-linked sialic acid, disialyl motifs, LeX, sialyl-LeX or HNK-1 units. Hence, our data provide the basis for further studies on the contribution of carbohydrate determinants to CD24-mediated biological activities.


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Received: 2008-12-18
Accepted: 2009-2-5
Published Online: 2009-03-05
Published in Print: 2009-07-01

©2009 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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