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Fucosyltransferase (FucT) activity has been detected on the surface of mouse germ cells and rat Sertoli cells, and has been postulated to play a role in cell-cell interactions. A recently cloned rat FucT (rFucT-IV) is expressed in the testes, and thus is a candidate for encoding the cell-surface FucT activity. This study maps the 5′-ends of several rFuc-T-IV mRNAs, and these results suggest that initiation of transcription may occur both upstream of the first ATG, as well as between the first two closely spaced, in-frame ATGs. Thus, in certain tissues, notably spleen, significant amounts of both a long and a short form of rFucT-IV would be predicted. This study also determines some basic properties of both the long and short forms of rFucT-IV, and investigates whether the use of alternative ATGs would allow FucT activity to be expressed both on the cell surface and in the Golgi. Plasmids that encode FLAG-epitope-labeled rFucT-IVs that initiate from either of the two ATGs were constructed, and rFucT-IV was expressed either in vitro using cell-free rabbit reticulocyte lysate, or after transfection in tissue culture. The results from these studies demonstrate that rFucT-IV is a glycosylated, transmembrane protein with a short cytoplasmic tail, and that either of the two ATGs in the 5′ region of the rFucT-IV gene are capable of acting as functional initiators of translation in vitro, to produce enzymatically active glycoproteins. However, no difference in the intracellular localization between the transferase containing a 48 amino acid or a 15 amino acid cytoplasmic tail was detected by immunocytochemistry, as both show the same pattern of Golgi-like staining in several different cell types, with no indication of surface expression. Thus, the additional amino-terminal 33 amino acids of the long form of rFucT-IV do not appear to influence its intracellular location in the cell types investigated.
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Aucoin, J.M., Koul, O., Sajdel-Sulkowska, E.M. et al. The rat α1,3-fucosyltransferase (rFucT-IV) gene encodes both long and short forms of the enzyme which share the same intracellular location. Glycoconj J 15, 671–681 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006984314437
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