Teresa I Mitchell

Publications (2)3.58 Total impact

• Article: N-linked glycan characterization of heterologous proteins.

  Huijuan Li, Robert G Miele, Teresa I Mitchell, Tillman U Gerngross
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  ABSTRACT: Our laboratory has focused on the re-engineered of the secretory pathway of Pichia pastoris to perform glycosylation reactions that mimic processing of N-glycans in humans and other higher mammals (1,2). A reporter protein with a single N-linked glycosylation site, a His-tagged Kringle 3 domain of human plasminogen (K3), was used to identify combinations of optimal leader/catalytic domain(s) to recreate human N-glycan processing in the Pichia system. In this chapter we describe detailed protocols for high-throughput purification of K3, enzymatic release of N-glycans, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight and high-performance liquid chromatography analysis of the released N-glycans. The developed protocols can be adapted to the characterization of N-glycans from any purified protein expressed in P. pastoris.
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 02/2007; 389:139-50.
• Article: Functional analysis of the ALG3 gene encoding the Dol-P-Man: Man5GlcNAc2-PP-Dol mannosyltransferase enzyme of P. pastoris.

  Robert C Davidson, Juergen H Nett, Eduard Renfer, Huijuan Li, Terrance A Stadheim, Benton J Miller, Robert G Miele, Stephen R Hamilton, Byung-Kwon Choi, Teresa I Mitchell, Stefan Wildt
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  ABSTRACT: N-glycans are synthesized in both yeast and mammals through the ordered assembly of a lipid-linked core Glc(3)Man(9)GlcNAc(2) structure that is subsequently transferred to a nascent protein in the endoplasmic reticulum. Once folded, glycoproteins are then shuttled to the Golgi, where additional but divergent processing occurs in mammals and fungi. We cloned the Pichia pastoris homolog of the ALG3 gene, which encodes the enzyme that converts Man(5)GlcNAc(2)-Dol-PP to Man(6)GlcNAc(2)-Dol-PP. Deletion of this gene in an och1 mutant background resulted in the secretion of glycoproteins with a predicted Man(5)GlcNAc(2) structure that could be trimmed to Man(3)GlcNAc(2) by in vitro alpha-1,2-mannosidase treatment. However, several larger glycans ranging from Hex(6)GlcNAc(2) to Hex(12)GlcNAc(2) were also observed that were recalcitrant to an array of mannosidase digests. These results contrast the far simpler glycan profile found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae alg3-1 och1, indicating diverging Golgi processing in these two closely related yeasts. Finally, analysis of the P. pastoris alg3 deletion mutant in the presence and absence of the outer chain initiating Och1p alpha-1,6-mannosyltransferase activity suggests that the PpOch1p has a broader substrate specificity compared to its S. cerevisiae counterpart.
  Glycobiology 06/2004; 14(5):399-407. · 3.58 Impact Factor