Molecular Endocrinology, Vol 6, 443-449, Copyright © 1992 by Endocrine Society

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An additional carbohydrate chain in the variant thyroxine-binding globulin-Gary (TBGAsn-96) impairs its secretion

F Kambe, H Seo, Y Mori, Y Murata, OE Janssen, S Refetoff and N Matsui
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Nagoya University, Japan.

The T4-binding globulin-Gary (TBG-G) variant has severely impaired T4 binding, is unstable at 37 C, and presents an apparent anodal shift of all isoforms when submitted to isoelectric focusing. Inheritance of this abnormal TBG produces a profound decrease in the serum levels of native TBG with reciprocal changes in its denatured form, causing thyroid hormone concentrations to be as low as those found in complete TBG deficiency. The TBG-G gene possesses a single nucleotide substitution replacing the normal IIe96 (ATC) with Asn (AAC), thus creating a new site for N-linked glycosylation. In order to determine whether TBG-G contains an additional carbohydrate chain as indirectly suggested by the isoelectric focusing results, cDNAs containing the normal TBG (TBG-N), and TBG-G were inserted in the appropriate vectors to allow their expression in mammalian cells (COS-1) and in amphibian (Xenopus) oocytes. In both systems, expression of TBG-G yielded a larger molecule than TBG-N when analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under denaturing conditions. However, both were identical in size when synthesized in COS-1 cells in the presence of tunicamycin or when deglycosylated after their synthesis in Xenopus oocytes. Pulse chase experiments revealed impaired secretion and excessive overall intracellular degradation of TBG-G relative to TBG-N. As expected from studies on serum from affected subjects, in vitro expressed TBG-G had a 10-fold lower affinity for T4. These studies prove that the new site for potential glycosylation created by the point mutation in TBG-G is indeed glycosylated.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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