Molecular Aspects of Specific Cell Contact

Crandall, Marjorie; Brock, Thomas D.

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“…The latter is true for the mating factors isolated from sexually agglutinative mating types of the yeast Hansenula wingei (34). This mating system has been reviewed (34), and criteria for determining specificity in other cell-aggregating systems were proposed (35). The hypothesis that the haploid mating factors are mutually repressed in the nonagglutinative diploid (36) has been supported by recent work in which conditions for the differential induction of each glycoprotein mating factor in the diploid were discovered (37).…”

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“…This mating system has been reviewed (34), and criteria for determining specificity in other cell-aggregating systems were proposed (35). The hypothesis that the haploid mating factors are mutually repressed in the nonagglutinative diploid (36) has been supported by recent work in which conditions for the differential induction of each glycoprotein mating factor in the diploid were discovered (37).The mating factor from strain 5, called 5-factor (5f) (38) or 5-agglutinin (39) is a mannan-protein, heterogeneous with respect to molecular weight (15,000 to 108 daltons) (34,38) and with respect to carbohydrate content [50% (38) to 96% (40) ]. The biological assay for 5f used by all these workers is agglutination of strain 21 cells.…”

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“…The mating factor from strain 5, called 5-factor (5f) (38) or 5-agglutinin (39) is a mannan-protein, heterogeneous with respect to molecular weight (15,000 to 108 daltons) (34,38) and with respect to carbohydrate content [50% (38) to 96% (40) ]. The biological assay for 5f used by all these workers is agglutination of strain 21 cells.…”

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“…However, the role played by the carbohydrate moieties may be nontrivial since most of the aggregation factors studied thus far either interact with carbohydrates or glycoproteins on the cell surface or are glycoproteins themselves. The latter is true for the mating factors isolated from sexually agglutinative mating types of the yeast Hansenula wingei (34). This mating system has been reviewed (34), and criteria for determining specificity in other cell-aggregating systems were proposed (35).…”

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Molecular Complementarity of Yeast Glycoprotein Mating Factors

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Lawrence

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1974

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Cell fusion between opposite mating types 5 and 21 of the yeast Hansenula wingei is initiated by a strong sexual agglutination reaction. The mating factors responsible for the specificity of cellular recognition are complementary glycoproteins which form a physical complex in vitro. The complex is assayed by recovery of agglutination activity of the multivalent 5-factor after the univalent 21-factor has been inactivated by treatment of the complex with alkali. The 5-factor 21-factor complex, purified on Sepharose 6B, is large (several million daltons) and heterogeneous. The three peaks of 5-factor activity contain a number of combining sites proportional to molecular size.In this paper, evidence is presented for complex formation in vitro between yeast glycoprotein mating factors. These cellwall factors determine the specificity of cellular recognition as the first step in mating. Thus, these factors may be considered "complementary" in the sense proposed by Emil Fisher (1) in his-analogy:... "dass Enzym und Glucosid wie Schloss und Schlussel" .... Shortly later, in 1913, Lillie (2) described an activity extracted from sea-urchin eggs that specifically agglutinated sperm cells and was therefore complementary to a sperm-surface component. These early ideas concerning preformed combining sites on macromolecules formed the basis of models proposed by Tyler (3) and Weiss (4) in which the specificity of cellular adhesion in tissue development was explained by the presence of complementary molecules on opposing cell surfaces which combined in a manner analogous to antigen-antibody complex formation. Subsequent studies of cell contact have been reviewed extensively (see refs. 5-16 and other papers in these volumes). In systems involving adhesion of identical cells, additional theoretical considerations and biophysical parameters have been proposed (17-21). Current research in cellular recognition is centered on the identification and characterization of cell-surface aggregation factors isolated from diverse systems (22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33). In general, the information for the specificity of aggregation factors is considered to reside in the primary sequence of the protein moiety. However, the role played by the carbohydrate moieties may be nontrivial since most of the aggregation factors studied thus far either interact with carbohydrates or glycoproteins on the cell surface or are glycoproteins themselves. The latter is true for the mating factors isolated from sexually agglutinative mating types of the yeast Hansenula wingei (34). This mating system has been reviewed (34), and criteria for determining specificity in other cell-aggregating systems were proposed (35). The hypothesis that the haploid mating factors are mutually repressed in the nonagglutinative diploid (36) has been supported by recent work in which conditions for the differential induction of each glycoprotein mating factor in the diploid were discovered (37).The mating factor from strain 5, called 5-factor (5f) (38) or ...

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Molecular Complementarity of Yeast Glycoprotein Mating Factors

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1974

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Sexual agglutination, which is indispensable for zygote formation [ 11, occurs through the complementary binding of sex-specific glycoproteins (agglutination substances) on the cell surface of opposite mating types in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [2] as well as in Hansenula wingei [3,4]. The cell wall agglutination substances were purified and partially chemically characterized in both yeasts [2,.…”

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