Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Display of the human mucinome with defined O-glycans by gene engineered cells

  • Rebecca Nason,
  • Christian Büll,
  • Andriana Konstantinidi,
  • Lingbo Sun,
  • Zilu Ye,
  • Adnan Halim,
  • Wenjuan Du,
  • Daniel M. Sørensen,
  • Fabien Durbesson,
  • Sanae Furukawa,
  • Ulla Mandel,
  • Hiren J. Joshi,
  • Leo Alexander Dworkin,
  • Lars Hansen,
  • Leonor David,
  • Tina M. Iverson,
  • Barbara A. Bensing,
  • Paul M. Sullam,
  • Ajit Varki,
  • Erik de Vries,
  • Cornelis A. M. de Haan,
  • Renaud Vincentelli,
  • Bernard Henrissat,
  • Sergey Y. Vakhrushev,
  • Henrik Clausen,
  • Yoshiki Narimatsu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24366-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Mucins play critical roles in maintaining the human microbiome, with their O-glycosylated tandem repeats (TRs) providing important cues for microbiota. Here, the authors develop a cellular platform for producing TRs with defined O-glycan structures to dissect the functions of TR O-glycosylation.