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Assembly of cell-wall glycoproteins of Chlamydomonas reinhardii: Oligosaccharides are added in medial and trans Golgi compartments

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A series of monoclonal antibodies and a polyclonal antiserum have been used to investigate the localisation and pathway of biosynthesis of the cell-wall hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein 2BII in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardii. Glyco-protein precursors were detected within the endoplasmic reticulum using a polyclonal antiserum raised to the deglycosylated 2BII. Monoclonal antibodies which are known to recognise different carbohydrate epitopes of 2BII were found to label two distinct regions of the Golgi stack. The immunolabelling results demonstrate that there is compartmentation of protein synthesis and glycosylation steps for these O-glycosidically linked glycoproteins. Newly synthesised glycoproteins are transported from the Golgi apparatus to the cell surface via two distinct routes. They then undergo assembly into a cell wall, the inner wall layer being formed first and probably functionaing as a template within which the outer crystalline wall layers are assembled.

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Abbreviations

DGP:

deglycosylated glycoprotein

ER:

endoplasmic reticulum

MAC:

monoclonal antibody centre

M r :

relative molecular mass

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Grief, C., Shaw, P.J. Assembly of cell-wall glycoproteins of Chlamydomonas reinhardii: Oligosaccharides are added in medial and trans Golgi compartments. Planta 171, 302–312 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398675

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