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  • Title: Asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of Semliki Forest virus grown in mosquito cells.
    Author: Naim HY, Koblet H.
    Journal: Arch Virol; 1992; 122(1-2):45-60. PubMed ID: 1729985.
    Abstract:
    The structure of the N-linked oligosaccharides of Semliki Forest viral glycoproteins produced in infected mosquito cells (C6/36) was investigated by biosynthetic labeling, enzymic deglycosylation using endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidases H, D, F/glycopeptidase F, exoglycosidase and analysis of the sugars on Concanavalin A-Sepharose columns and by gel filtration chromatography. The results demonstrated that the glycoproteins decorating the virus shed from infected cells have N-linked glycans with a trimannosyl core similar to the core glycans produced by vertebrate and yeast cells. However, the E1 glycoprotein produced by infected C6/36 cells exhibited both a trimannosyl core and a modified trimannosyl core most probably with terminal N-acetylglucosamine. The carbohydrate side chains of Semliki Forest envelope proteins displayed two types of structural heterogeneities existing either at different N-glycosylation sites as in the case of E2, or at the same N-glycosylation site as in the case of E1. In the presence of 1-deoxymannojirimycin, no structural heterogeneities in the glycan chains were found. This strongly suggests that the glycosylation events that lead to the observed sugar heterogeneities occur in the Golgi membranes.
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