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Precision mapping of the human O-GalNAc glycoproteome through SimpleCell technology.
Steentoft C1, Vakhrushev SY1, Joshi HJ1,2, Kong Y1, Vester-Christensen MB1, Schjoldager KT1, Lavrsen K1, Dabelsteen S1, Pedersen NB1, Marcos-Silva L1,3, Gupta R2, Bennett EP1, Mandel U1, Brunak S2,4,5, Wandall HH1, Levery SB1, Clausen H1.
EMBO J, 32(10):1478-88, May 15, 2013.
(doi: 10.1038/emboj.2013.79. Epub 2013 Apr 12)

1Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen,
  Copenhagen N, Denmark
2Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
3IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
4Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark
5Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

PMID: 23584533


ABSTRACT

Glycosylation is the most abundant and diverse posttranslational modification of proteins. While several types of glycosylation can be predicted by the protein sequence context, and substantial knowledge of these glycoproteomes is available, our knowledge of the GalNAc-type O-glycosylation is highly limited. This type of glycosylation is unique in being regulated by 20 polypeptide GalNAc-transferases attaching the initiating GalNAc monosaccharides to Ser and Thr (and likely some Tyr) residues. We have developed a genetic engineering approach using human cell lines to simplify O-glycosylation (SimpleCells) that enables proteome-wide discovery of O-glycan sites using `bottom-up' ETD-based mass spectrometric analysis. We implemented this on 12 human cell lines from different organs, and present a first map of the human O-glycoproteome with almost 3000 glycosites in over 600 O-glycoproteins as well as an improved NetOGlyc4.0 model for prediction of O-glycosylation. The finding of unique subsets of O-glycoproteins in each cell line provides evidence that the O-glycoproteome is differentially regulated and dynamic. The greatly expanded view of the O-glycoproteome should facilitate the exploration of how site-specific O-glycosylation regulates protein function.