Fg. Li et al., POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS OF RECOMBINANT P-SELECTIN GLYCOPROTEIN LIGAND-1 REQUIRED FOR BINDING TO P-SELECTIN AND E-SELECTIN, The Journal of biological chemistry, 271(6), 1996, pp. 3255-3264
P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1) is a mucin-like ligand for P
- and E-selectin on human leukocytes. PSGL-1 requires sialylated, fuco
sylated O-linked glycans and tyrosine sulfate to bind P-selectin. Less
is known about the determinants that PSGL-1 requires to bind E-select
in. To further define the modifications required for PSGL-1 to bind P-
and E-selectin, we transfected Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells with
cDNAs for PSGL-1 and specific glycosyltransferases. CHO cells synthes
ize only core 1 O-linked glycans (Gal beta 1-3Gal-NAc alpha 1-Ser/Thr)
; they lack core 2 O-linked glycans (Gal beta 1-3(Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc b
eta 1-6)GalNAc alpha 1- Ser/Thr) because they do not express the core
2 beta 1-6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (C2GnT), CHO cells also lac
k alpha 1-3 fucosyltransferase activity. PSGL-1 expressed on transfect
ed CHO cells bound P- and E-selectin only when it was co-expressed wit
h both C2GnT and an alpha 1-3 fucosyl-transferase (Fuc-TIII, Fuc-TIV,
or Fuc-TVII). Chromatography of beta-eliminated O-linked glycans from
PSGL-1 co-expressed with C2GnT confirmed synthesis of core 2 structure
s. Tyrosine residues on PSGL-1 expressed in CHO cells were shown to be
sulfated. Phenylalanine replacement of three tyrosines within a conse
nsus sequence for tyrosine sulfation abolished binding to P-selectin b
ut not to E-selectin, These results demonstrate that PSGL-1 requires c
ore 2 O-linked glycans that are sialylated and fucosylated to bind P-
and E-selectin, PSGL-1 also requires tyrosine sulfate to bind P-select
in but not E-selectin.