Data-independent acquisition (DIA) is now an emerging method in bottom–up proteomics and capable of achieving deep proteome coverage and accurate label-free quantification. However, for ...post-translational modifications, such as glycosylation, DIA methodology is still in the early stage of development. The full characterization of glycoproteins requires site-specific glycan identification as well as subsequent quantification of glycan structures at each site. The tremendous complexity of glycosylation represents a significant analytical challenge in glycoproteomics. This review focuses on the development and perspectives of DIA methodology for N- and O-linked glycoproteomics and posits that DIA-based glycoproteomics could be a method of choice to address some of the challenging aspects of glycoproteomics. First, the current challenges in glycoproteomics and the basic principles of DIA are briefly introduced. DIA-based glycoproteomics is then summarized and described into four aspects based on the actual samples. Finally, we discussed the important challenges and future perspectives in the field. We believe that DIA can significantly facilitate glycoproteomic studies and contribute to the development of future advanced tools and approaches in the field of glycoproteomics.
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•Protein glycosylation and challenges in glycoproteomics.•Data-independent acquisition for deglycosylated and intact N-linked glycopeptides.•Unbiased screening of oxonium ions from all glycopeptide precursors.•Glyco–data-independent acquisition on mucin-type O-glycopeptides.
As a highly abundant and diverse post-translational modification, protein glycosylation is challenging to characterize in various approaches including MS. In MS-based proteomics, data-independent acquisition (DIA) has been advanced rapidly and showed outstanding analytical performances. DIA now started to be applied in different facets of glycoproteomics, including deglycosylated and intact N-linked and O-linked glycopeptides, and screening of oxonium ions. We summarized current applications of DIA in glycoproteomics and discussed its limitations and perspectives.
We report a liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry O-glycoproteomics strategy using data-independent acquisition (DIA) mode for direct analysis of O-glycoproteins. This approach ...enables characterization of glycopeptides and structures of O-glycans on a proteome-wide scale with quantification of stoichiometries (though it does not allow for direct unambiguous glycosite identification). The method relies on a spectral library of O-glycopeptides; the Glyco-DIA library contains sublibraries obtained from human cell lines and human serum, and it currently covers 2,076 O-glycoproteins (11,452 unique glycopeptide sequences) and the 5 most common core1 O-glycan structures. Applying the Glyco-DIA library to human serum without enrichment for glycopeptides enabled us to identify and quantify 269 distinct glycopeptide sequences bearing up to 5 different core1 O-glycans from 159 glycoproteins in a SingleShot analysis.
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Mucins are a large family of heavily O-glycosylated proteins that cover all mucosal surfaces and constitute the major macromolecules in most body fluids. Mucins are primarily defined by ...their variable tandem repeat (TR) domains that are densely decorated with different O-glycan structures in distinct patterns, and these arguably convey much of the informational content of mucins. Here, we develop a cell-based platform for the display and production of human TR O-glycodomains (~200 amino acids) with tunable structures and patterns of O-glycans using membrane-bound and secreted reporters expressed in glycoengineered HEK293 cells. Availability of defined mucin TR O-glycodomains advances experimental studies into the versatile role of mucins at the interface with pathogenic microorganisms and the microbiome, and sparks new strategies for molecular dissection of specific roles of adhesins, glycoside hydrolases, glycopeptidases, viruses and other interactions with mucin TRs as highlighted by examples.
The structural diversity of glycans on cells—the glycome—is vast and complex to decipher. Glycan arrays display oligosaccharides and are used to report glycan hapten binding epitopes. Glycan arrays ...are limited resources and present saccharides without the context of other glycans and glycoconjugates. We used maps of glycosylation pathways to generate a library of isogenic HEK293 cells with combinatorially engineered glycosylation capacities designed to display and dissect the genetic, biosynthetic, and structural basis for glycan binding in a natural context. The cell-based glycan array is self-renewable and reports glycosyltransferase genes required (or blocking) for interactions through logical sequential biosynthetic steps, which is predictive of structural glycan features involved and provides instructions for synthesis, recombinant production, and genetic dissection strategies. Broad utility of the cell-based glycan array is demonstrated, and we uncover higher order binding of microbial adhesins to clustered patches of O-glycans organized by their presentation on proteins.
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•Human glycosyltransferases (170 GTf genes) organized in glycosylation pathway maps•The human glycome displayed in a natural context on the cell surface•Sustainable cell-based array resource to dissect biological functions of glycans•Microbial adhesins may bind to clustered patches of O-glycans
Narimatsu et al. display the diversity of human sugars on the surface of a library of cells by genetically engineering the cellular glycosylation machinery. Sugars on the cell surface play important roles in interactions with the environment, and the cell library developed opens for studies of biological interactions with sugars.
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.
Comprehensive proteomics survey in 12 human cell lines and development of an improved NetOGlyc4.0 prediction tool greatly expand the view on mucin‐type protein O‐glycosylation.
Glycosylation of viral envelope proteins is important for infectivity and interaction with host immunity, however, our current knowledge of the functions of glycosylation is largely limited to ...N-glycosylation because it is difficult to predict and identify site-specific O-glycosylation. Here, we present a novel proteome-wide discovery strategy for O-glycosylation sites on viral envelope proteins using herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) as a model. We identified 74 O-linked glycosylation sites on 8 out of the 12 HSV-1 envelope proteins. Two of the identified glycosites found in glycoprotein B were previously implicated in virus attachment to immune cells. We show that HSV-1 infection distorts the secretory pathway and that infected cells accumulate glycoproteins with truncated O-glycans, nonetheless retaining the ability to elongate most of the surface glycans. With the use of precise gene editing, we further demonstrate that elongated O-glycans are essential for HSV-1 in human HaCaT keratinocytes, where HSV-1 produced markedly lower viral titers in HaCaT with abrogated O-glycans compared to the isogenic counterpart with normal O-glycans. The roles of O-linked glycosylation for viral entry, formation, secretion, and immune recognition are poorly understood, and the O-glycoproteomics strategy presented here now opens for unbiased discovery on all enveloped viruses.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Production of glycoprotein therapeutics in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells is limited by the cells' generic capacity for N-glycosylation, and production of glycoproteins with desirable homogeneous ...glycoforms remains a challenge. We conducted a comprehensive knockout screen of glycosyltransferase genes controlling N-glycosylation in CHO cells and constructed a design matrix that facilitates the generation of desired glycosylation, such as human-like α2,6-linked sialic acid capping. This engineering approach will aid the production of glycoproteins with improved properties and therapeutic potential.
•O-GalNAc type glycosylation is one of the most abundant and diverse protein modifications.•Quantitative characterization of O-GalNAc glycosylation can be addressed at the glycan, glycopeptide and ...glycoprotein level.•Protein glycosylation heterogeneity has a micro-, macro- and meta- dimension.•Different O-GalNAc quantification strategies provide complimentary information.
O-GalNAc type glycosylation is an abundant and complex protein modification. Recent developments in mass spectrometry resulted in significant success in quantitative analysis of O-GalNAc glycosylation. The analysis of released O-GalNAc type glycans expanded our horizons of understanding the glycome of various biological models. The site-specific analysis of glycosylation micro-heterogeneity of purified proteins opened perspectives for the improved design of glycoprotein therapeutics. Advanced gene editing and chemical technologies applied to O-glycoproteomics enabled to identify O-GalNAc glycosylation at unprecedented depth. Progress in the analysis of intact glycoproteins under native and reduced conditions enabled the monitoring of glycosylation proteoform variants. Despite of the astonishing results in quantitative O-GalNAc glycoproteomics, site-specific mapping of the full O-GalNAc structural repertoire in complex samples is yet a long way off. Here, we summarize the most common quantitative strategies in O-GalNAc glycoproteomics, review recent progress and discuss benefits and limitations of the various approaches in the field.
Protein O-linked mannose (O-Man) glycosylation is an evolutionary conserved posttranslational modification that fulfills important biological roles during embryonic development. Three nonredundant ...enzyme families, POMT1/POMT2, TMTC1-4, and TMEM260, selectively coordinate the initiation of protein O-Man glycosylation on distinct classes of transmembrane proteins, including α-dystroglycan, cadherins, and plexin receptors. However, a systematic investigation of their substrate specificities is lacking, in part due to the ubiquitous expression of O-Man glycosyltransferases in cells, which precludes analysis of pathway-specific O-Man glycosylation on a proteome-wide scale. Here, we apply a targeted workflow for membrane glycoproteomics across five human cell lines to extensively map O-Man substrates and genetically deconstruct O-Man initiation by individual and combinatorial knockout of O-Man glycosyltransferase genes. We established a human cell library for the analysis of substrate specificities of individual O-Man initiation pathways by quantitative glycoproteomics. Our results identify 180 O-Man glycoproteins, demonstrate new protein targets for the POMT1/POMT2 pathway, and show that TMTC1-4 and TMEM260 pathways widely target distinct Ig-like protein domains of plasma membrane proteins involved in cell–cell and cell–extracellular matrix interactions. The identification of O-Man on Ig-like folds adds further knowledge on the emerging concept of domain-specific O-Man glycosylation which opens for functional studies of O-Man–glycosylated adhesion molecules and receptors.
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•Improved workflow for sensitive C- and O-Man glycoproteomics.•Differential analyses of O-Man glycoproteomes in genetically engineered cells.•Dissection of POMT1/POMT2, TMTC1-4, and TMEM260 substrate specificities.
The biosynthetic regulation and initiation of protein O-linked mannose (O-Man) glycosylations has been dissected in genetically engineered human cell lines by a sensitive method for differential O-glycoproteomics. The results expand current knowledge on C- and O-Man glycoproteins and reveal how three unique (POMT1/POMT2, TMTC1-4, and TMEM260) biosynthetic pathways orchestrate domain-specific O-Man biosynthesis.
Microalgae are a renewable and promising biomass for large-scale biofuel, food and nutrient production. However, their efficient exploitation depends on our knowledge of the cell wall composition and ...organization as it can limit access to high-value molecules. Here we provide an atomic-level model of the non-crystalline and water-insoluble glycoprotein-rich cell wall of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Using in situ solid-state and sensitivity-enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance, we reveal unprecedented details on the protein and carbohydrate composition and their nanoscale heterogeneity, as well as the presence of spatially segregated protein- and glycan-rich regions with different dynamics and hydration levels. We show that mannose-rich lower-molecular-weight proteins likely contribute to the cell wall cohesion by binding to high-molecular weight protein components, and that water provides plasticity to the cell-wall architecture. The structural insight exemplifies strategies used by nature to form cell walls devoid of cellulose or other glycan polymers.
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