Bump-and-hole engineering of human polypeptide N-acetylgalactosamine transferases to dissect their protein substrates and glycosylation sites in cells
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Bea Calle Edgar Gonzalez-Rodriguez Keira E Mahoney Anna Cioce Ganka Bineva-Todd Omur Yilmaz Tastan Chloe Roustan Helen Flynn Stacy A Malaker Ben SchumannAbstract
Despite the known disease relevance of glycans, the biological function and substrate specificities of individual glycosyltransferases are often ill-defined. Here, we describe a protocol to develop chemical, bioorthogonal reporters for the activity of the GalNAc-T family of glycosyltransferases using a tactic termed bump-and-hole engineering. This allows identification of the protein substrates and glycosylation sites of single GalNAc-Ts. Despite requiring transfection of cells with the engineered transferases and enzymes for biosynthesis of bioorthogonal substrates, the tactic complements methods in molecular biology. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Schumann et al. (2020)1, Cioce et al. (2021)2, and Cioce et al. (2022)3.
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Journal STAR Protocols
Volume 4
Issue number 1
Pages 101974
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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101974
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