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ArticleNature chemical biology2015

O-GlcNAc occurs cotranslationally to stabilize nascent polypeptide chains.

Yanping Zhu, Ta-Wei Liu, Samy Cecioni, Razieh Eskandari, Wesley F Zandberg, David J Vocadlo

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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6 authors.

Yanping Zhu1] Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [2] Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada..
Ta-Wei Liu1] Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [2] Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada..
Samy CecioniDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada..
Razieh EskandariDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada..
Wesley F ZandbergDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada..
David J Vocadlo1] Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [2] Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada..ORCID 0000000168975558

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-123341
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleocytoplasmic glycosylation of proteins with O-linked N-acetylglucosamine residues (O-GlcNAc) is recognized as a conserved post-translational modification found in all metazoans. O-GlcNAc has been proposed to regulate diverse cellular processes. Impaired cellular O-GlcNAcylation has been found to lead to decreases in the levels of various proteins, which is one mechanism by which O-GlcNAc seems to exert its varied physiological effects. Here we show that O-GlcNAcylation also occurs cotranslationally. This process protects nascent polypeptide chains from premature degradation by decreasing cotranslational ubiquitylation. Given that hundreds of proteins are O-GlcNAcylated within cells, our findings suggest that cotranslational O-GlcNAcylation may be a phenomenon regulating proteostasis of an array of nucleocytoplasmic proteins. These findings set the stage to assess whether O-GlcNAcylation has a role in protein quality control in a manner that bears similarity with the role played by N-glycosylation within the secretory pathway.

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AcetylglucosamineAnimalsGlycosylationHEK293 CellsHumansMiceMice, KnockoutN-AcetylglucosaminyltransferasesPeptidesPlasmidsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearSp1 Transcription FactorUbiquitinationAcetylglucosamineN-AcetylglucosaminyltransferasesPeptidesReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearSP1 protein, humanSp1 Transcription FactorUDP-N-acetylglucosamine-peptide beta-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase

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