Abstract
Glycosylation is an abundant post-translational modification that alters the fate and function of its substrate proteins. To aid in understanding the significance of protein glycosylation, identification of target proteins is key. As with all proteomics experiments, mass spectrometry has been established as the desired method for substrate identification. However, these approaches require selective enrichment and purification of modified proteins. Chemical reporters in combination with bioorthogonal reactions have emerged as robust tools for identifying post-translational modifications including glycosylation. We provide here a method for the use of bioorthogonal chemical reporters for isolation and identification of glycosylated proteins. More specifically, this protocol is a representative procedure from our own work using an alkyne-bearing O-GlcNAc chemical reporter (GlcNAlk) and a chemically cleavable azido-azo-biotin probe for the identification of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins.
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We thank Leslie Bateman for careful reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by the University of Southern California and the American Cancer Society Grant IRG-58-007-51 (to M.R.P.) and the Ellison Medical Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and General Medical Sciences Grant 1RO1GM087544 O1A2 (to H.C.H.).
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Zaro, B.W., Hang, H.C., Pratt, M.R. (2013). Incorporation of Unnatural Sugars for the Identification of Glycoproteins. In: Kohler, J., Patrie, S. (eds) Mass Spectrometry of Glycoproteins. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 951. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-146-2_5
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