| First Author | Okazaki IJ | Year | 1996 |
| Journal | Blood | Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 | Pages | 915-21 |
| PubMed ID | 8704249 | Mgi Jnum | J:34530 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:81986 | Doi | 10.1182/blood.v88.3.915.915 |
| Citation | Okazaki IJ, et al. (1996) Molecular characterization of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked ADP-ribosyltransferase from lymphocytes. Blood 88(3):915-21 |
| abstractText | Mono ADP-ribosyltransferases catalyze the transfer of the ADP-ribose moiety of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to proteins. It was reported by Wang et al (J Immunol 153:4048, 1994) that incubation of mouse cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) with NAD resulted in the ADP-ribosylation of membrane proteins and inhibition of cell proliferation and cytotoxicity. Treatment of CTL with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) before incubation with NAD prevented the inhibitory effects of NAD on the cells, consistent with the removal of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored ADP-ribosyltransferase on the lymphocyte surface. We have identified and cloned a GPI-linked ADP-ribosyltransferase from Yac-1 mouse T-cell lymphoma cells. The deduced amino acid sequence of the Yac-1 transferase was 70% and 41% identical to those of the rabbit skeletal muscle and chicken heterophil, respectively. It contained three noncontiguous sequences similar to those found in several of the bacterial toxin and vertebrate ADP-ribosyltransferases. Based on crystallography of the bacterial toxins, these regions are believed to form, in part, the catalytic site consistent with a common mechanism for the ADP-ribose transfer reaction. In rat mammary adenocarcinoma (NMU) cells transformed with the Yac-1 transferase cDNA, transferase activity was present on the cell surface and was released into the medium by treatment of cells with PI-PLC. Thus, we have cloned a novel gene that has properties identical to the transferase detected in CTL, and may be involved in the NAD-dependent regulation of proliferation and cytotoxicity. |
