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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2025

N-glycan-dependent protein maturation and quality control in the ER.

Kevin P Guay, Wen-Chuan Chou, Nathan P Canniff, Kylie B Paul, Daniel N Hebert

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kevin P GuayProgram in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. kpguay@umass.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3468-942X
Wen-Chuan ChouProgram in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7924-2855
Nathan P CanniffProgram in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Kylie B PaulProgram in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Daniel N HebertProgram in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.

Funding

Cellular protein maturation and degradationR01GM086874 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI RAUCH, JENNIFER NICOLE · 2009 to 2025
$4.5M
CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY INTERFACE PREDOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTST32GM008515 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI THOMPSON, LYNMARIE K. · 1995 to 2020
$4.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM086874NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vast majority of proteins that traverse the mammalian secretory pathway become N-glycosylated in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The bulky glycan protein modifications, which are conserved in fungi and humans, act as maturation and quality-control tags. In this Review, we discuss findings published in the past decade that have rapidly expanded our understanding of the transfer and processing of N-glycans, as well as their role in protein maturation, quality control and trafficking in the ER, facilitated by structural insights into the addition of N-glycans by the oligosaccharyltransferases A and B (OST-A and OST-B). These findings suggest that N-glycans serve as reporters of the folding status of secretory proteins as they traverse the ER, enabling the lectin chaperones to guide their maturation. We also explore how the emergence of co-translational glycosylation and the expansion of the glycoproteostasis network in metazoans has expanded the role of N-glycans in early protein-maturation events and quality control.

Indexed as

Endoplasmic ReticulumPolysaccharidesAnimalsGlycosylationHexosyltransferasesHumansMembrane ProteinsProtein FoldingProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProtein TransportHexosyltransferasesMembrane ProteinsPolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID40389697
PMCPMC13091552

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