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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011

Chemical reporters for fluorescent detection and identification of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins reveal glycosylation of the ubiquitin ligase NEDD4-1.

Balyn W Zaro, Yu-Ying Yang, Howard C Hang, Matthew R Pratt

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Balyn W ZaroDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Yu-Ying Yang
Howard C Hang
Matthew R Pratt
Rockefeller University · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

Studies on Protein LipidationR01GM087544 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI HANG, HOWARD C · 2010 to 2023
$4.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM087544 O1A2NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM087544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dynamic modification of nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins by the monosaccharide N-acetyl-glucosamine (GlcNAc) continues to emerge as an important regulator of many biological processes. Herein we describe the development of an alkynyl-modified GlcNAc analog (GlcNAlk) as a new chemical reporter of O-GlcNAc modification in living cells. This strategy is based on metabolic incorporation of reactive functionality into the GlcNAc biosynthetic pathway. When combined with the Cu(I)-catalyzed [3 + 2] azide-alkyne cycloaddition, this chemical reporter allowed for the robust in-gel fluorescent visualization of O-GlcNAc and affinity enrichment and identification of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins. Using in-gel fluorescence detection, we characterized the metabolic fates of GlcNAlk and the previously reported azido analog, GlcNAz. We confirmed previous results that GlcNAz can be metabolically interconverted to GalNAz, whereas GlcNAlk does not, thereby yielding a more specific metabolic reporter of O-GlcNAc modification. We also used GlcNAlk, in combination with a biotin affinity tag, to identify 374 proteins, 279 of which were not previously reported, and we subsequently confirmed the enrichment of three previously uncharacterized proteins. Finally we confirmed the O-GlcNAc modification of the ubiquitin ligase NEDD4-1, the first reported glycosylation of this protein.

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Protein Processing, Post-Translational3T3 CellsAnimalsEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportFluorescent DyesGlycosylationMiceNedd4 Ubiquitin Protein LigasesProteinsProteomicsUbiquitin-Protein LigasesEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportFluorescent DyesNedd4l protein, mouseNedd4 Ubiquitin Protein LigasesProteinsUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID21540332
PMCPMC3100932
OpenAlexW2122381557

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