Abstract
Tyrosine sulfation of proteins is an important post-translational modification shown to play a role in many membrane-associated or extracellular processes such as virus entry, blood clotting, antibody-mediated immune response, inflammation and egg fecundation. The sole two human enzymes that transfer sulfate moieties from 3'-phospho-adenosine-5'-phospho-sulfate onto tyrosine residues, TPST1 and TPST2, are anchored to the membranes of the trans-Golgi compartment with the catalytic domain oriented to the lumen. In contrast to the relatively well studied organization of medial Golgi enzymes, the organization of trans-Golgi transferases remains elusive. Although tyrosylprotein sulfotransferases are known to exist as homodimers in the Golgi membranes, this organization level may represent only a small piece of a puzzle that is linked to the entire picture. Here we report the formation of TPST1/TPST2 heterodimers and a novel interaction between either TPST1 or TPST2 and the α-2,6-sialyltransferase, indicating a higher organization level of tyrosylprotein sulfotransferases that may serve for substrate selectivity and/or effective organization of multiple post-translational modification of proteins.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1404-1412 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Molecular Biology |
Volume | 427 |
Issue number | 6 Part B |
Early online date | 7 Feb 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 27 Mar 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Date of Acceptance: 27/01/2015Acknowledgements
We thank Tina Gerdes and Alma Rueppel for excellent technical support, Dr. Jonathan Mueller for fruitful discussions, the group of Professor Perihan Nalbant for their support with the confocal microscopy and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for financial support (TRR-60/1, BA1624/4-1 and BA1624/4-2).
Keywords
- TPST
- SiaT
- ST6
- dimerization
- BiFC