Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

An atlas of O-linked glycosylation on peptide hormones reveals diverse biological roles

  • Thomas D. Madsen,
  • Lasse H. Hansen,
  • John Hintze,
  • Zilu Ye,
  • Shifa Jebari,
  • Daniel B. Andersen,
  • Hiren J. Joshi,
  • Tongzhong Ju,
  • Jens P. Goetze,
  • Cesar Martin,
  • Mette M. Rosenkilde,
  • Jens J. Holst,
  • Rune E. Kuhre,
  • Christoffer K. Goth,
  • Sergey Y. Vakhrushev,
  • Katrine T. Schjoldager

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17473-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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O-glycosylation is an abundant post-translational modification but its relevance for bioactive peptides is unclear. Here, the authors detect O-glycans on almost one third of the classified peptide hormones and show that O-glycosylation can modulate peptide half-lives and receptor activation properties.