Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Identification of global inhibitors of cellular glycosylation

  • Daniel Madriz Sørensen,
  • Christian Büll,
  • Thomas D. Madsen,
  • Erandi Lira-Navarrete,
  • Thomas Mandel Clausen,
  • Alex E. Clark,
  • Aaron F. Garretson,
  • Richard Karlsson,
  • Johan F. A. Pijnenborg,
  • Xin Yin,
  • Rebecca L. Miller,
  • Sumit K. Chanda,
  • Thomas J. Boltje,
  • Katrine T. Schjoldager,
  • Sergey Y. Vakhrushev,
  • Adnan Halim,
  • Jeffrey D. Esko,
  • Aaron F. Carlin,
  • Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero,
  • Roberto Weigert,
  • Henrik Clausen,
  • Yoshiki Narimatsu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36598-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Here, the authors discover small molecules that inhibit glycosylation processes that occur in the Golgi apparatus of cells. The molecules reversibly inhibit formation of elaborate glycan structures without affecting secretion of glycoproteins.