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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

O-GlcNAcylation of High Mobility Group Box 1 (HMGB1) Alters Its DNA Binding and DNA Damage Processing Activities.

Aaron T Balana, Anirban Mukherjee, Harsh Nagpal, Stuart P Moon, Beat Fierz, Karen M Vasquez, Matthew R Pratt

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. HMGB1: A Central Node in Cancer Therapy Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  14. High-mobility group box 1 in acute kidney injury.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025
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  16. OGT and OGA: Sweet guardians of the genome.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2024
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  19. Targeting HMGB1: A Potential Therapeutic Strategy for Chronic Kidney Disease.International journal of biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Aaron T Balana
Anirban MukherjeeDivision of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Pediatric Research Institute, 1400 Barbara Jordan Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78723, United States.
Harsh NagpalLaboratory of Biophysical Chemistry of Macromolecules, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Stuart P Moon
Beat FierzLaboratory of Biophysical Chemistry of Macromolecules, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2991-3044
Karen M VasquezDivision of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Pediatric Research Institute, 1400 Barbara Jordan Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78723, United States.
University of Southern California · USÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHThe University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

Project 4: Coordinating Nucleolytic Pathways During Crosslink RepairP01CA193124 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI WOOD, RICHARD D · 2017 to 2022
$9.6M
Functional Analysis of O-GlcNAc using Synthetic Protein ChemistryR01GM114537 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI PRATT, MATTHEW ROBERT · 2015 to 2024
$3.1M
CBI: Chemistry Biology InterfaceT32GM118289 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FORSBURG, SUSAN L · 2016 to 2020
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA193124NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114537NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM118289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein O-GlcNAcylation is an essential and dynamic regulator of myriad cellular processes, including DNA replication and repair. Proteomic studies have identified the multifunctional nuclear protein HMGB1 as O-GlcNAcylated, providing a potential link between this modification and DNA damage responses. Here, we verify the protein's endogenous modification at S100 and S107 and found that the major modification site is S100, a residue that can potentially influence HMGB1-DNA interactions. Using synthetic protein chemistry, we generated site-specifically O-GlcNAc-modified HMGB1 at S100 and characterized biochemically the effect of the sugar modification on its DNA binding activity. We found that O-GlcNAc alters HMGB1 binding to linear, nucleosomal, supercoiled, cruciform, and interstrand cross-linked damaged DNA, generally resulting in enhanced oligomerization on these DNA structures. Using cell-free extracts, we also found that O-GlcNAc reduces the ability of HMGB1 to facilitate DNA repair, resulting in error-prone processing of damaged DNA. Our results expand our understanding of the molecular consequences of O-GlcNAc and how it affects protein-DNA interfaces. Importantly, our work may also support a link between upregulated O-GlcNAc levels and increased rates of mutations in certain cancer states.

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DNA DamageAcetylglucosamineCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCell-Free SystemCell Line, TumorDNA RepairHMGB1 ProteinHumansMutationAcetylglucosamineHMGB1 ProteinHMGB1 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID34546745
PMCPMC8636066
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