2021
Small RNAs are modified with N-glycans and displayed on the surface of living cells
Flynn RA, Pedram K, Malaker SA, Batista PJ, Smith BAH, Johnson AG, George BM, Majzoub K, Villalta PW, Carette JE, Bertozzi CR. Small RNAs are modified with N-glycans and displayed on the surface of living cells. Cell 2021, 184: 3109-3124.e22. PMID: 34004145, PMCID: PMC9097497, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.04.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLiving cellsGlycan biosynthetic machineryDomains of lifeMultiple cell typesRNA biologySmall RNAsExtracellular biologyBiosynthetic machineryBiochemical approachesMammalian speciesBattery of chemicalAnti-dsRNA antibodiesN-glycansCell typesReceptor familyCultured cellsCell surfaceRNAThird scaffoldGlycoRNABiologyMajor targetGlycosylationGlycansSialic acid
2020
Metabolic precision labeling enables selective probing of O-linked N-acetylgalactosamine glycosylation
Debets MF, Tastan OY, Wisnovsky SP, Malaker SA, Angelis N, Moeckl LKR, Choi J, Flynn H, Wagner LJS, Bineva-Todd G, Antonopoulos A, Cioce A, Browne WM, Li Z, Briggs DC, Douglas HL, Hess GT, Agbay AJ, Roustan C, Kjaer S, Haslam SM, Snijders AP, Bassik MC, Moerner WE, Li VSW, Bertozzi CR, Schumann B. Metabolic precision labeling enables selective probing of O-linked N-acetylgalactosamine glycosylation. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2020, 117: 25293-25301. PMID: 32989128, PMCID: PMC7568240, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2007297117.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStructure-based design processN-acetylgalactosamine glycosylationProtein glycosylation eventsCell surface glycoproteomeCRISPR knockout screensMetabolic labeling experimentsGlycan subtypesGlycosylation eventsSecretory pathwayGalNAc glycosylationProtein glycosylationEctopic expressionSer/GalNAc-T2Superresolution microscopyGlycan typesLiving cellsBioorthogonal tagsGlycosylationIntestinal organoidsMetabolic interconversionSuch specificityUridine diphosphateLabeling experimentsCellsBump-and-Hole Engineering Identifies Specific Substrates of Glycosyltransferases in Living Cells
Schumann B, Malaker SA, Wisnovsky SP, Debets MF, Agbay AJ, Fernandez D, Wagner LJS, Lin L, Li Z, Choi J, Fox DM, Peh J, Gray MA, Pedram K, Kohler JJ, Mrksich M, Bertozzi CR. Bump-and-Hole Engineering Identifies Specific Substrates of Glycosyltransferases in Living Cells. Molecular Cell 2020, 78: 824-834.e15. PMID: 32325029, PMCID: PMC7276986, DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.03.030.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLiving cellsPolypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyl transferasesCell surface glycomesEssential biological processesComplex biosynthetic machineryMajor physiological processesN-acetylgalactosaminyl transferaseBiosynthetic regulationBiosynthetic machineryGlycosyltransferase familyIndividual glycosyltransferasesProtein glycosylationPosttranslational modificationsGlycan fine structureBiosynthetic pathwayPhysiological contextBiological processesPhysiological processesGlycan structuresSpecific substratesGlycosyltransferasesChemical functionalityExperimental strategiesCellsBiosynthesis