Tunicamycin inhibits proteoglycan synthesis in rat ovarian granulosa cells in culture

doi:10.1016/0003-9861(86)90076-7

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volume 251, Issue 1, 15 November 1986, Pages 287-298

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Abstract

The effects of tunicamycin, an inhibitor of N-linked oligosaccharide biosynthesis, on the synthesis and turnover of proteoglycans were investigated in rat ovarian granulosa cell cultures. The synthesis of proteoglycans was inhibited (40% of the control at 1.6 μg/ml tunicamycin) disproportionately to that of general protein synthesis measured by [³H]serine incorporation (80% of control). Proteoglycans synthesized in the presence of tunicamycin lacked N-linked oligosaccharides but contained apparently normal O-linked oligosaccharides. The dermatan sulfate and heparan sulfate chains of the proteoglycans had the same hydrodynamic size as control when analyzed by Sepharose 6B chromatography. However, the disulfated disaccharide content of the dermatan sulfate chains was reduced by tunicamycin in a dose-dependent manner, implying that the N-linked oligosaccharides may be involved in the function of a sulfotransferase which is responsible for sulfation of the iduronic acid residues. When [³⁵S]sulfate and [³H]glucosamine were used as labeling precursors, the ratio of $^{35} S^{3} H$ in chondroitin 4-sulfate was reduced to approximately 50% of the control by tunicamycin, indicating that the drug reduced the supply of endogenous sugar to the UDP-N-acetylhexosamine pool. Neither transport of proteoglycans from Golgi to the cell surface nor their turnover from the cell surface (release into the medium, or internalization and subsequent intracellular degradation) was affected by the drug. Addition of mannose 6-phosphate to the culture medium did not alter the proteoglycan turnover. When granulosa cells were treated with cycloheximide, completion of proteoglycan diminished with a $t_{12}$ of approximately 12 min, indicating the time required for depleting the core protein precursor pool. The glycosaminoglycan synthesizing capacity measured by the addition of p-nitrophenyl-β-xyloside, however, lasted longer ( $t_{12}$ of approximately 40 min). Tunicamycin decreased the core protein precursor pool size in parallel to decreased proteoglycan synthesis, both of which were significantly greater than the inhibition of general protein synthesis. This suggests two possibilities: (a) tunicamycin specifically inhibited the synthesis of proteoglycan core protein, or more likely (b) a proportion of the synthesized core protein precursor (approximately 50%) did not become accessible for post-translational modifications, and was possibly routed for premature degradation.

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