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Cell surface counter receptors are essential components of the unconventional export machinery of galectin-1

Cell surface counter receptors are essential components of the unconventional export machinery of galectin-1
Cell surface counter receptors are essential components of the unconventional export machinery of galectin-1
Galectin-1 is a component of the extracellular matrix as well as a ligand of cell surface counter receptors such as beta-galactoside-containing glycolipids, however, the molecular mechanism of galectin-1 secretion has remained elusive. Based on a nonbiased screen for galectin-1 export mutants we have identified 26 single amino acid changes that cause a defect of both export and binding to counter receptors. When wild-type galectin-1 was analyzed in CHO clone 13 cells, a mutant cell line incapable of expressing functional galectin-1 counter receptors, secretion was blocked. Intriguingly, we also find that a distant relative of galectin-1, the fungal lectin CGL-2, is a substrate for nonclassical export from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Alike mammalian galectin-1, a CGL-2 mutant defective in beta-galactoside binding, does not get exported from CHO cells. We conclude that the beta-galactoside binding site represents the primary targeting motif of galectins defining a galectin export machinery that makes use of beta-galactoside-containing surface molecules as export receptors for intracellular galectin-1.
1932-6203
373-381
Seelenmeyer, Claudia
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Wegehingel, Sabine
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Seelenmeyer, Claudia, Wegehingel, Sabine, Tews, Ivo, Künzler, Markus, Aebi, Markus and Nickel, Walter (2005) Cell surface counter receptors are essential components of the unconventional export machinery of galectin-1. PLoS ONE, 171 (2), 373-381. (doi:10.1083/jcb.200905083). (PMID:10931889)

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Galectin-1 is a component of the extracellular matrix as well as a ligand of cell surface counter receptors such as beta-galactoside-containing glycolipids, however, the molecular mechanism of galectin-1 secretion has remained elusive. Based on a nonbiased screen for galectin-1 export mutants we have identified 26 single amino acid changes that cause a defect of both export and binding to counter receptors. When wild-type galectin-1 was analyzed in CHO clone 13 cells, a mutant cell line incapable of expressing functional galectin-1 counter receptors, secretion was blocked. Intriguingly, we also find that a distant relative of galectin-1, the fungal lectin CGL-2, is a substrate for nonclassical export from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Alike mammalian galectin-1, a CGL-2 mutant defective in beta-galactoside binding, does not get exported from CHO cells. We conclude that the beta-galactoside binding site represents the primary targeting motif of galectins defining a galectin export machinery that makes use of beta-galactoside-containing surface molecules as export receptors for intracellular galectin-1.

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Published date: 24 October 2005
Organisations: Centre for Biological Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 200639
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/200639
ISSN: 1932-6203
PURE UUID: 58f87f7e-cd67-482c-9b5f-5ee90a4f5ea2
ORCID for Ivo Tews: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4704-1139

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Author: Claudia Seelenmeyer
Author: Sabine Wegehingel
Author: Ivo Tews ORCID iD
Author: Markus Künzler
Author: Markus Aebi
Author: Walter Nickel

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