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Akhlaq Farid, Martin Pabst, Jennifer Schoberer, Friedrich Altmann, Josef Glössl, Richard Strasser
Arabidopsis thaliana α1,2-glucosyltransferase (ALG10) is required for efficient N-glycosylation and leaf growth
Plant Journal: for Cell and Molecular Biology 68 (2011) 314-325
 

Assembly of the dolichol-linked oligosaccharide precursor (Glc3Man9GlcNAc2) is highly conserved among eukaryotes. In contrast to yeast and mammals, little is known about the biosynthesis of dolichol-linked oligosaccharides and the transfer to asparagine residues of nascent polypeptides in plants. To understand the biological function of these processes in plants we characterized the Arabidopsis thaliana homolog of yeast ALG10, the α1,2-glucosyltransferase that transfers the terminal glucose residue to the lipid-linked precursor. Expression of an Arabidopsis ALG10-GFP fusion protein in Nicotiana benthamiana leaf epidermal cells revealed a reticular distribution pattern resembling endoplasmic reticulum (ER) localization. Analysis of lipid-linked oligosaccharides showed that Arabidopsis ALG10 can complement the yeast Δalg10 mutant strain. A homozygous Arabidopsis T-DNA insertion mutant (alg10-1) accumulated mainly lipid-linked Glc2Man9GlcNAc2 and displayed a severe protein underglycosylation defect. Phenotypic analysis of alg10-1 showed that mutant plants have altered leaf size when grown in soil. Moreover, the inactivation of ALG10 in Arabidopsis resulted in the activation of the unfolded protein response, increased salt sensitivity and suppression of the phenotype of α-glucosidase I-deficient plants. In summary, these data show that Arabidopsis ALG10 is an ER-resident α1,2-glucosyltransferase that is required for lipid-linked oligosaccharide biosynthesis and subsequently for normal leaf development and abiotic stress response.

glycosyltransferase, protein glycosylation, posttranslational modification, endoplasmic reticulum, lipid-linked oligosaccharides, abiotic stress

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