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(The FASEB Journal. 2002;16:635-641.)
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Cytoplasmic peptide:N-glycanase (PNGase) in eukaryotic cells: occurrence, primary structure, and potential functions

TADASHI SUZUKI1, HANGIL PARK2 and WILLIAM J. LENNARZ3

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and the Institute of Cell and Developmental Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, USA

3Correspondence: E-mail: wlennarz{at}notes.cc.sunysb.edu


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A cytoplasmic peptide:N-glycanase has been implicated in the proteasomal degradation of newly synthesized misfolded glycoproteins exported from the endoplasmic reticulum. The gene encoding this enzyme (Png1p) has been identified in yeast. Based on sequence analysis, Png1p was classified as a member of the ‘transglutaminase-like superfamily’ that contains a putative catalytic triad of amino acids (cysteine, histidine, and aspartic acid). More recent studies in yeast indicate that Png1p can bind to the 26S proteasome through its interaction with the DNA repair protein Rad23p. A mouse homologue of Png1p (mPng1p) bound not only to the Rad23 protein, but also to various proteins related to ubiquitin and/or the proteasome through an extended amino-terminal domain. This NH2 terminus of mPng1p, which is not found in yeast, contains a PUB domain predicted to be involved in the ubiquitin-related pathway. This review will focus on the primary structure and potential functions of the cytoplasmic PNGases.—Suzuki, T., Park, H., Lennarz, W. J. Cytoplasmic peptide: N-glycanase (PNGase) in eukaryotic cells: occurrence, primary structure, and potential functions


Key Words: ERAD • endoplasmic reticulum • transglutaminase family


   CYTOPLASMIC PEPTIDE:N-GLYCNASE (PNGase): OCCURRENCE IN NATURE
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PNGase (also known as N-glycanase or glycoamidase; peptide-N4-(N-acetyl-ß-D-glucosaminyl)asparagine amidase; EC 3.5.1.52) hydrolyzes the ß-aspartylglycosylamine bond of asparagine-linked glycopeptides and glycoproteins (1 2 3 ; Fig. 1 ). This enzyme was first discovered in almond seeds (4) and subsequently in bacteria (5) . Because this enzyme can remove glycan moieties from glycoproteins under relatively mild conditions, it has been a powerful tool in analyzing the structure and biological functions of N-linked glycans on glycoproteins. The first animal PNGase activity was identified in fish embryos (6) . The enzyme was active at acidic pH and believed to be of lysosomal origin (7) . The acid PNGase from fish was proposed to act on a glycophosphoprotein, a major phosvitin-related egg yolk glycoprotein. The deglycosylation reaction catalyzed by acid PNGase was suggested to facilitate the degradation/absorption of glycophosphoprotein by the developing embryos (7 , 8) .



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Figure 1. Schematic representation of enzymatic reaction of peptide:N-glycanase (PNGase) acting on an asparagine-linked glycoprotein. PNGase catalyzes the scission of the bond between the proximal N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) residue and the asparagine (Asn) residue to which it is linked, giving rise to an aspartic acid (Asp) -containing polypeptide chain and 1-amino-N-acetylglucosaminyl oligosaccharide. The latter is subsequently hydrolyzed nonenzymatically at physiological pH to generate N-acetylglucosaminyl oligosaccharide and ammonia.

PNGase activity in the cytoplasm was first described in mammalian cells (9 10 11 12) and was found in hen oviduct (13) , Medaka fish (7) , and yeast (14) . The ‘cytoplasmic’ PNGases are enzymatically quite different from PNGases found in plant, bacteria, and an acid PNGase in fish because they require an -SH group, a neutral pH for optimal activity, and unique carbohydrate binding properties (7 , 10 , 15 16 17) . Although most activity was recovered in the cytosol fraction through subcellular fractionation studies (9 , 13 , 15) , evidence has been presented for the occurrence of ‘membrane-associated’ PNGase activity (13 , 14 , 18) with enzymatic properties similar to those of the soluble, cytoplasmic enzyme (13 , 14) . Subcellular fractionation studies further demonstrated that the membrane-associated PNGase was in fact present in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) -containing membrane fraction (13) , suggesting that the membrane-associated form of PNGase might associate with the cytosolic face of the ER membrane.


   INVOLVEMENT OF PNGase IN PROTEASOME-MEDIATED DEGRADATIONS
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The initial expectation that cytoplasmic PNGase and its substrates (N-glycosylated proteins or peptides) localized to different subcellular compartments obscured understanding of the biological role of the enzyme. However, recent studies have clearly established that eukaryotic cells have an ‘ER-associated degradation’ (ERAD) system for catabolism of newly synthesized proteins (19) . Sec61p is involved in the retro-translocation of misfolded proteins (28 29 30 ; Fig. 2 ). This process is conserved from yeast to humans, and recent evidence demonstrates that misfolded glycoproteins actually are retro-translocated from the ER into the cytosol, where the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway plays a central role in degrading these defective proteins (20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ; Fig. 2 ).



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Figure 2. ER-associated degradation of a misfolded glycoprotein and proposed involvement of PNGase. (1) The protein that passes through the translocon (Sec61 channel) is N-glycosylated by oligosaccharyl transferase (OT); (2) the protein folds with the aid of various lumenal chaperones; (3) once the protein acquires the correct folding state, it exits the ER via vesicular transport; (4) however, if the protein cannot fold, it is dislocated (retrotranslocated) by the ‘dislocon’ (another channel involving Sec61p) out of the lumen of the ER into cytosol; (5) the protein is ubiquitinated (by the E2/E3 enzyme) and deglycosylated (by PNGase). The order of these events is currently unknown; for instance, there is no evidence that PNGase can act on ubiquitinated glycoproteins. The effect of oligosaccharide structure on PNGase action remains unclarified. (6) The protein is targeted for degradation by the action of the proteasome. Not all steps have been demonstrated for this pathway, especially the order in which steps (5) and (6) occur. Under physiological conditions, PNGase might act on glycoproteins or glycopeptides produced by proteasomal degradation (see text).

In 1996, Wiertz et al. reported that during the ER-associated degradation process of MHC class I heavy chain in human cytomegalovirus-infected cells, an intermediate de-N-glycosylated protein accumulated in the cytosol when an inhibitor of the proteasome was included. This observation strongly implicates the involvement of PNGase activity in the degradation process (28 , 31) . Using either proteasome inhibitors or mutant cells with defects in proteasome activity, misfolded/unassembled substrates have so far been found to be de-N-glycosylated by PNGase in vivo in various organisms (Table 1) . These results suggested that the PNGase-mediated de-N-glycosylation process might be widespread throughout eukaryotic cells.


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Table 1. List of known in vivo glycoprotein substrates for de-N-glycosylation by PNGase in the cytoplasm


   IDENTIFICATION OF A GENE ENCODING CYTOPLASMIC PNGase IN YEAST
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The potential importance of the PNGase-catalyzed reaction in the proteasomal degradation process had been proposed (13 , 14 , 28 , 31 32 33 34 35 36) , but until recently it was impossible to test this hypothesis because of lack of information about the enzyme structure and specific inhibitors of its activity. However, the recent discovery of the gene encoding a cytoplasmic PNGase, PNG1, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has opened the possibility of in-depth analysis of the precise function of this enzyme. PNG1 was identified by isolating a mutant defective in PNGase activity and subsequent mapping of the locus responsible for the loss of this activity (32) . Using a GFP fusion construct, the enzyme (Png1p) was shown to be localized in the cytosol and nucleus (32) . This observation was of particular interest because, unlike multicellular eukaryotes in which proteasomes are normally abundant in the cytosol, in S. cerevisiae the proteasome is concentrated at the nucleus (37 , 38) .


   PRIMARY STRUCTURE OF CYTOPLASMIC PNGases: MEMBERS OF THE TRANSGLUTAMINASE FAMILY
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Comparison of the protein sequence of yeast Png1p with sequences in various databases revealed that this enzyme is highly conserved. Initially the occurrence of homologous proteins in mammalian cells, D. melanogaster, C. elegans, various fungi, and plants was demonstrated (32) . Potential homologues were also found in Gallus gallus (gene accession no. BG711086), Xenopus laevis (BE491338), Danio rerio (zebrafish) (BG307395), and Oryzias latipes (Medaka fish) (AV668313) in an NCBI EST database, further confirming the wide distribution of this enzyme in vertebrates. S. cerevisiae and S. pombe Png1ps have a ‘core’ sequence that is highly homologous (37% identity; 53% similarity, 6% gaps between yeast Png1p and its human homologue). A key difference is that the homologues in higher eukaryotes, unlike yeast, have extended domains at both the amino and carboxyl termini of the core domain (32 ; Fig. 3 ). An interesting feature of the PNGases is the presence of a ‘transglutaminase’ motif in the most conserved region (57% identity and 69% similarity between yeast Png1p and human homologue); therefore, they have been proposed to be part of the transglutaminase-like superfamily (39 ; Fig. 3 ). Transglutaminase is an enzyme that establishes covalent links between proteins by formation of amide cross-links between the side chains of glutamate and lysine residues (39) . Proteins in the transglutaminase family usually possess a putative catalytic triad consisting of cysteine, histidine, and aspartate residues that is similar to the catalytic triad of thiol proteases. Some proteins in this superfamily are believed to be proteases (39) . Since the proteins in the transglutaminase superfamily are responsible for formation or hydrolysis of amide bonds, it is not surprising that the cytoplasmic PNGase (an amidase) was defined as a third type of enzyme belonging to this superfamily. Indeed, the potential catalytic triad in this domain is conserved in all Png1p homologues (Fig. 4 ). Consistent with this idea, the png1–1 allele, which causes the defect in PNGase activity in yeast (32) , was found to have a single amino acid substitution in which the putative catalytic histidine residue was changed to tyrosine (Fig. 4 , second asterisk). Reducing reagents such as dithiothreitol are required for in vitro enzyme activity of the cytoplasmic PNGases (10 , 13 , 14) . This observation is consistent with the assumption that they have a cysteine residue that acts as a critical nucleophile for activity.



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Figure 3. Schematic representation of the primary structure of various eukaryotic PNGases. mPng1p; mouse Png1p homologue, DmPng1p; D. melanogaster, CePng1p, C. elegans; ScPng1p, S. cerevisiae, and SpPng1p, S. pombe. Green domain represents the core domain common to all Png1p homologues. Yellow domain represents the extended carboxyl-terminal domains commonly found in mouse, fruit fly, and nematode Png1p homologues. Red domain represents a unique thioredoxin-like domain so far found only at the NH2 terminus of nematode Png1p homologue. Striped blue represents the extended amino-terminal domains found in mouse and fruit fly Png1p homologues. Brown represents transglutaminase domain (37) , which includes putative catalytic triad of enzyme. Purple represents the PUB domain found in proteins implicated in ubiquitin pathway-related proteins (40) .



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Figure 4. Catalytic residues conserved in cytoplasmic PNGase and a comparison of these with conserved residues of a transglutaminase (factor XIIIa; 37 ). The putative catalytic triad residues (Cys, His, Asp) found in all the proteins are indicated with asterisks above the consensus sequence. The number shown within the factor XIIIa sequence represents the number of amino acid residues omitted from this figure for alignment of the carboxyl-terminal sequences containing a putative catalytic aspartate residue.

A novel sequence motif, the PUB domain, was recently identified in an amino-terminal region of vertebrate and D. melanogaster Png1p homologues (40 ; Fig. 3 ). This domain has also been found in proteins bearing an UBA (ubiquitin-associated) or UBX domain, both of which are found in various proteins implicated in ubiquitin-related pathway (40) . The PUB domain is proposed to serve as a protein–protein interaction domain (40) , since mouse Png1p can interact with variety of proteins through a region containing it (41 ; see below).


   POTENTIAL FUNCTION OF CYTOPLASMIC PNGase IN EUKARYOTES
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Despite the ubiquitous distribution of highly conserved Png1p in eukaryotes, its precise function in cellular processes is not understood. In S. cerevisiae, deletion of PNG1 had no apparent effect on growth rate or viability under a variety of experimental conditions. In fact, some genes required for the ERAD process in yeast are nonessential and their deletions cause no detectable growth defects (23) . These observations imply that the ERAD process may be dispensable at least under normal growth conditions in yeast. Two mechanisms regulate accumulation of unfolded proteins in the lumen of the ER: one is the unfolded protein response (UPR), which up-regulates proteins that facilitate correct folding of secretory proteins (42 43 44) ; the other is the previously mentioned ERAD (20–27; Fig. 2 ). Studies have shown a tight coordination between the UPR and ERAD responses (45 46 47) , which could explain the dispensability of ERAD in yeast under normal conditions. The ER-associated degradation process is known to be closely associated with genetic diseases in mammals (48) .

Several observations support the idea that Png1p is involved in proteasome-mediated degradation. 1) In mammalian cells and yeast, small glycopeptides that follow a retrograde transport route similar to that of misfolded proteins (49 , 50) are subsequently de-N-glycosylated in the cytosol by PNGase (12 , 14) . 2) A decrease in the rate of degradation of a misfolded protein was observed in yeast in png1{Delta} cells (32) . However, a direct link between formation of in vivo de-N-glycosylated protein intermediates and activation of Png1p has not been rigorously established in any system. Neither the biochemically purified mammalian cytoplasmic PNGase nor the purified yeast Png1p acts on intact glycoprotein substrates in vitro (12 , 32) despite abundant evidence that this enzyme acts on glycoproteins in vivo (see Table1 ). This puzzling observation may be analogous to the action of the isolated 20S catalytic proteasome subcomplex, which acts efficiently only on small peptide substrates in vitro. The proposed function of the 19S ATPases is to unwind protein substrates before their degradation by the 20S proteolytic complex (51 52 53) . Perhaps unfolding of the substrate by a yet unknown cofactor is required before Png1p can degrade glycoproteins.


   Rad23 PROTEIN (Rad23p) AS AN ESCORT PROTEIN THAT LINKS Png1p AND THE 26S PROTEASOME
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Very recently the Rad23 protein was identified as a PNGase binding protein by two-hybrid screening in yeast (54) . This observation may shed light on the still enigmatic functional and/or physical relationship between the cytoplasmic PNGase and the 26S proteasome. RAD23 was originally identified as a gene involved in nucleotide excision repair (55) . Recent evidence showed that a fraction of the Rad23 protein (Rad23p) binds to 26S proteasome through the Rad23p NH2 terminus ubiquitin-like domain (56) . In fact, the physical interaction of Png1p with the 26S proteasome occurs in a Rad23p-dependent manner in yeast, as assessed by coimmunoprecipitation analysis (54) . Therefore, the association of Png1p with the 26S proteasome may produce a complex in which de-N-glycosylation and proteolysis of unfolded glycoprotein substrates could be accomplished efficiently. Furthermore, the formation of a Rad23p-Png1p complex was found to be distinct from the well-established Rad23p-Rad4p complex required for DNA repair (54) . Png1p and Rad4p were predicted to share a common ‘transglutaminase fold’ (57) . They were both found to bind the carboxyl-terminal domain of Rad23p, whereas Rad23p is known to be associated with the 26S proteasome through its amino-terminal domain (56 , 58) . These observations may represent an ‘escort’ property of Rad23p that serves to connect the 26S proteasome with other proteins such as Png1p or Rad4p to regulate the biological functions of these binding proteins.


   IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS THAT INTERACT WITH MOUSE Png1p
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Because of the architectural difference between yeast Png1p and its mouse homologue (mPng1p; Fig. 3 ), it was of interest to determine whether there are functional differences in these two proteins. A two-hybrid screening assay was used in an attempt to find proteins that bind to mPng1p. Several proteins (some implicated in the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway) were found to bind with mPng1p (41 ; Table 2 ). Those proteins include the mouse homologue of Rad23p (mHR23B), a 19S proteasome subunit S4, ubiquitin, a protein that has one UBA and one UBX domain, and autocrine motility factor receptor, which has a RING finger motif (59) and a CUE domain (60) , both of which are implicated in the ubiquitination reaction. This result was in sharp contrast to the case with yeast Png1p, where only Rad23p was identified as a binding protein (54) . All interactions but that of Rad23p homologue required the amino-terminal domain of mPng1p (41) . These results may display the evolutionary consequence of the addition of amino-terminal extension of mPng1p, including the PUB domain, which allows mPng1p to achieve various regulatory protein–protein interactions for the efficient glycoprotein degradation mediated by the proteasome.


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Table 2. List of mouse Png1p-interacting proteins detected using the two-hybrid system (ref 41 and unpublished observations)a


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As discussed, compelling evidence has accumulated regarding the involvement of PNGase in proteasome-mediated degradation of newly synthesized proteins in the ER. Now that the genes encoding highly conserved cytoplasmic PNGases have been identified, rapid clarification of the precise function of PNGase is likely. Nevertheless, the following important questions remain to be answered. Are Png1p and its homologues responsible for accumulation of de-N-glycosylated intermediates? Or does Png1p function as a ‘peptide’:N-glycanase only after proteasome degradation of the polypeptide chain of misfolded glycoproteins occurs? If conditions are found whereby Png1p acts on glycoproteins in vivo, how is this activity regulated? Perhaps there is a component(s) that facilitates the deglycosylation of glycoproteins by cytoplasmic PNGases in vivo. A possible intrinsic ‘unfolding’ activity of PNGase has been hypothesized (36) . Now that the physical interaction of Png1p and the 26S proteasome is evident, the 19S proteasome subunit obviously is one of the candidates that facilitate the unfolding of glycoprotein substrates because it has been shown to have an ‘unfoldase’ activity (51 52 53) . Or it is possible that PNGase may be located in proximity to the ‘dislocon’, the site where protein is dislocated from the ER to the cytosol, so PNGase may be able to act on proteins that are already partially unfolded while they pass through the protein channel. Indeed, the lumenal (29 , 61 , 62) and cytosolic chaperones (63 , 64) are reported to be involved in degradation of ERAD substrates.

Another question regards the identity and biological function of the ‘membrane-associated’ form of the cytoplasmic PNGase. Is it actually the ER-associated PNGase that is anchored to the ER membrane? If so, how is this anchoring mediated? For ER-associated degradation, the ER-associated proteasome has been proposed to be important (36) . The membrane-associated form of the PNGase might interact with the membrane-bound proteasome. This hypothesis then raises more interesting questions: How is the localization of PNGases regulated? Is it changed under the conditions in which the unfolding proteins accumulate? Note that heat-induced interaction of the 26S proteasome with the ubiquitin-conjugating E2 enzyme was reported recently (65) . Whether an analogous regulation exists for the association of PNGase with the proteasome awaits determination. Finally, little is known about the biological function of Png1p homologues in higher eukaryotes, although a C. elegans strain mutated in Png1p has been identified in a screen for mutations that affect axon development and branching by an unknown mechanism (A. Colavita and M. Tessier-Lavigne, personal communication). Further studies should lead to a better understanding of the biological significance of the cytoplasmic PNGases in cellular processes.


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
T.S. expresses sincere thanks to Drs. Yasuo and Sadako Inoue (Academia Sinica, Taipei) for their continuous encouragement and Mr. Michael A. Kwofie and Ms. Elizabeth Anderson-Till (SUNY at Stony Brook) for reading the manuscript. We thank Drs. Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Antonio Colavita (Stanford University) for communicating valuable information. We thank members of our lab for useful discussions and Ms. Lorraine Conroy for manuscript preparation. We are also grateful to Ms. Yuriditzi Pascacio-Montijo for preparation of the figures. This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant GM33184 to W.J.L.


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1 Current address: PRESTO, JST (Japan Science and Technology Corporation), Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

2 Current address: eXegenics, inc. 2110 Research Row, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.


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