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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 108, Issue 4 1691-1701, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists

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The expression of carbohydrate blood group antigens correlates with heat resistance

A Menoret, C Otry, N Labarriere, ME Breimer, F Piller, K Meflah and J Le Pendu
INSERM U419, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France.

Recent data indicate that cells may resist heat shock via more than one route: heat shock protein synthesis and other still ill-defined mechanisms. We investigated this phenomenon using four types of cells derived from a single rat colon carcinoma: clones REGb and PROb; PRO A+, a glycosylation variant of PROb selected for its high expression of blood group A antigen; and Ph8, a thermoresistant variant of PROb selected by repeated sublethal heat treatments. Basal heat resistance was clearly associated with the level of cell surface expression of blood group H and A antigens. Biosynthesis of these carbohydrate structures requires two glycosyltransferases, H and A enzymes, whose activities are also correlated with basal heat resistance. In addition, heat sensitive REGb cells were rendered more resistant by transfection with the gene encoding for H enzyme, allowing expression of H antigen. Thus, these terminal glycosylations could play a role as cellular protectors against heat treatment. Blood group carbohydrate antigens were mainly located on O-linked carbohydrate chains of a major glycoprotein of 200 kDa and to a lesser extent on N-linked chains. Only trace amounts were present as glycolipids.


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