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ArticleeLife2014

ERK8 is a negative regulator of O-GalNAc glycosylation and cell migration.

Joanne Chia, Keit Min Tham, David James Gill, Emilie Anne Bard-Chapeau, Frederic A Bard

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Article in eLife, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joanne ChiaInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, Singapore.
Keit Min Tham
David James Gill
Emilie Anne Bard-Chapeau
Frederic A Bard
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ER O-glycosylation can be induced through relocalisation GalNAc-Transferases from the Golgi. This process markedly stimulates cell migration and is constitutively activated in more than 60% of breast carcinomas. How this activation is achieved remains unclear. Here, we screened 948 signalling genes using RNAi and imaging. We identified 12 negative regulators of O-glycosylation that all control GalNAc-T sub-cellular localisation. ERK8, an atypical MAPK with high basal kinase activity, is a strong hit and is partially localised at the Golgi. Its inhibition induces the relocation of GalNAc-Ts, but not of KDEL receptors, revealing the existence of two separate COPI-dependent pathways. ERK8 down-regulation, in turn, activates cell motility. In human breast and lung carcinomas, ERK8 expression is reduced while ER O-glycosylation initiation is hyperactivated. In sum, ERK8 appears as a constitutive brake on GalNAc-T relocalisation, and the loss of its expression could drive cancer aggressivity through increased cell motility. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01828.001.

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Cell MovementAcetylgalactosamineEpithelial CellsExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesGlycosylationHeLa CellsHumansN-AcetylgalactosaminyltransferasesAcetylgalactosamineExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesMAPK15 protein, humanN-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferasescell migrationCOP-Iendoplasmic reticulumglycosylationgolgiretrograde traffic

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PMID24618899
PMCPMC3945522
OpenAlexW2140153012

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