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Prion or amyloid-b-derived Cu(II)- or free Zn(II)-ions support S-nitroso-dependent autocleavage of glypican-1 heparan sulfate.

Mani, Katrin LU orcid ; Cheng, Fang LU ; Havsmark, Birgitta LU ; Jönsson, Mats LU ; Belting, Mattias LU and Fransson, Lars-Åke LU (2003) In Journal of Biological Chemistry 278(40). p.38956-38965
Abstract
Copper are generally bound to proteins, e.g. the prion and the amyloid beta proteins. We have previously shown that copper ions are required to nitrosylate thiol groups in the core protein of glypican-1, a heparan sulfate-substituted proteoglycan. When S-nitrosylated glypican-1 is then exposed to an appropriate reducing agent, such as ascorbate, nitric oxide is released and autocatalyzes deaminative cleavage of the glypican-1 heparan sulfate side chains at sites where the glucosamines are N-unsubstituted. These processes take place in a stepwise manner, whereas glypican-1 recycles via a caveolin-1-associated pathway where copper ions could be provided by the prion protein. Here we show, by using both biochemical and microscopic techniques,... (More)
Copper are generally bound to proteins, e.g. the prion and the amyloid beta proteins. We have previously shown that copper ions are required to nitrosylate thiol groups in the core protein of glypican-1, a heparan sulfate-substituted proteoglycan. When S-nitrosylated glypican-1 is then exposed to an appropriate reducing agent, such as ascorbate, nitric oxide is released and autocatalyzes deaminative cleavage of the glypican-1 heparan sulfate side chains at sites where the glucosamines are N-unsubstituted. These processes take place in a stepwise manner, whereas glypican-1 recycles via a caveolin-1-associated pathway where copper ions could be provided by the prion protein. Here we show, by using both biochemical and microscopic techniques, that (a) the glypican-1 core protein binds copper(II) ions, reduces them to copper(I) when the thiols are nitrosylated and reoxidizes copper(I) to copper(II) when ascorbate releases nitric oxide; (b) maximally S-nitrosylated glypican-1 can cleave its own heparan sulfate chains at all available sites in a nitroxyl ion-dependent reaction; (c) free zinc(II) ions, which are redox inert, also support autocleavage of glypican-1 heparan sulfate, probably via transnitrosation, whereas they inhibit copper(II)-supported degradation; and (d) copper(II)-loaded but not zinc(II)-loaded prion protein or amyloid beta peptide support heparan sulfate degradation. As glypican-1 in prion null cells is poorly S-nitrosylated and as ectopic expression of cellular prion protein restores S-nitrosylation of glypican-1 in these cells, we propose that one function of the cellular prion protein is to deliver copper(II) for the S-nitrosylation of recycling glypican-1. (Less)
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  author       = {{Mani, Katrin and Cheng, Fang and Havsmark, Birgitta and Jönsson, Mats and Belting, Mattias and Fransson, Lars-Åke}},
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  publisher    = {{American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}},
  series       = {{Journal of Biological Chemistry}},
  title        = {{Prion or amyloid-b-derived Cu(II)- or free Zn(II)-ions support S-nitroso-dependent autocleavage of glypican-1 heparan sulfate.}},
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