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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Perturbing nuclear glycosylation in the mouse preimplantation embryo slows down embryonic development.

Sara Formichetti, Joana B Serrano, Urvashi Chitnavis, Agnieszka Sadowska, Na Liu, Ana Boskovic, Matthieu Boulard

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Maternal O-GlcNAc Transferase Is Required for the Asymmetry of Epigenetic Modifications in Mouse Zygotes.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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7 authors.

Sara FormichettiEpigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome, Monterotondo 00015, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7907-2239
Joana B Serrano *Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome, Monterotondo 00015, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3702-3727
Urvashi Chitnavis *Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome, Monterotondo 00015, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0837-3341
Agnieszka SadowskaEpigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome, Monterotondo 00015, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1303-3613
Na LiuEpigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome, Monterotondo 00015, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9575-2763
Ana BoskovicEpigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome, Monterotondo 00015, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1258-4376
Matthieu BoulardEpigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome, Monterotondo 00015, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5135-8529

Funding

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) 50900
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main form of intracellular protein glycosylation (O-GlcNAc) is reversible and has been mapped on thousands of cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins, including RNA polymerase II, transcription factors, and chromatin modifiers. The O-GlcNAc modification is catalyzed by a single enzyme known as O-GlcNAc Transferase, that is required for mammalian early development. Yet, neither the regulatory function of protein O-GlcNAcylation in the embryo nor the embryonic O-GlcNAc proteome have been documented. Here, we devised a strategy to enzymatically remove O-GlcNAc from preimplantation embryonic nuclei, where this modification accumulates coincidently with embryonic genome activation (EGA). Unexpectedly, the depletion of nuclear O-GlcNAc to undetectable levels has no impact on EGA, but dampens the transcriptional upregulation of the translational machinery, and triggers a spindle checkpoint response. These molecular alterations were phenotypically associated with a developmental delay starting from early cleavage stages and persisting after embryo implantation, establishing a link between nuclear glycosylation and the pace of embryonic development.

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BlastocystCell NucleusEmbryonic DevelopmentAcetylglucosamineAnimalsFemaleGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGlycosylationMiceN-AcetylglucosaminyltransferasesAcetylglucosamineN-AcetylglucosaminyltransferasesO-GlcNAc transferaseembryonic genome activationgene expressionO-GlcNAcpreimplantation development

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PMID40203037
PMCPMC12012502

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