Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Hexosamine biosynthetic pathway and O-GlcNAc-processing enzymes regulate daily rhythms in protein O-GlcNAcylation

  • Xianhui Liu,
  • Ivana Blaženović,
  • Adam J. Contreras,
  • Thu M. Pham,
  • Christine A. Tabuloc,
  • Ying H. Li,
  • Jian Ji,
  • Oliver Fiehn,
  • Joanna C. Chiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24301-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Misalignment between lifestyle and the natural day-night cycle, such as mistimed eating, can negatively impact health. Here the authors show that mistimed feeding alters protein O-GlcNAcylation, a nutrient sensitive post-translational modification.