Frontiers in Chemistry (Dec 2021)

Mass Spectrometry for O-GlcNAcylation

  • Ruoting Yin,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Yuhan Gou,
  • Xuecheng Ma,
  • Yongzhao Liu,
  • Jianfang Peng,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Ying Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.737093
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine modification (O-GlcNAcylation) at proteins with low-abundance expression level and species diversity, shows important roles in plenty of biological processes. O-GlcNAcylations with abnormal expression levels are associated with many diseases. Systematically profiling of O-GlcNAcylation at qualitative or quantitative level is vital for their function understanding. Recently, the combination of affinity enrichment, metabolic labeling or chemical tagging with mass spectrometry (MS) have made significant contributions to structure-function mechanism elucidating of O-GlcNAcylations in organisms. Herein, this review provides a comprehensive update of MS-based methodologies for quali-quantitative characterization of O-GlcNAcylation.

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