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The intrinsic and extrinsic effects of N-linked glycans on glycoproteostasis

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authors

  • Hebert, D. N.
  • Lamriben, L.
  • Powers, Evan
  • Kelly, Jeffery

publication date

  • 2014

journal

  • Nature Chemical Biology  Journal

abstract

  • Proteins that traffic through the eukaryotic secretory pathway are commonly modified with N-linked carbohydrates. These bulky amphipathic modifications at asparagines intrinsically enhance solubility and folding energetics through carbohydrate-protein interactions. N-linked glycans can also extrinsically enhance glycoprotein folding by using the glycoprotein homeostasis or 'glycoproteostasis' network, which comprises numerous glycan binding and/or modification enzymes or proteins that synthesize, transfer, sculpt and use N-linked glycans to direct folding and trafficking versus degradation and trafficking of nascent N-glycoproteins through the cellular secretory pathway. If protein maturation is perturbed by misfolding, aggregation or both, stress pathways are often activated that result in transcriptional remodeling of the secretory pathway in an attempt to alleviate the insult (or insults). The inability to achieve glycoproteostasis is linked to several pathologies, including amyloidoses, cystic fibrosis and lysosomal storage diseases. Recent progress on genetic and pharmacologic adaptation of the glycoproteostasis network provides hope that drugs of this mechanistic class can be developed for these maladies in the near future.

subject areas

  • Glycoproteins
  • Homeostasis
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular
  • Polysaccharides
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4232232

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1552-4450

PubMed ID

  • 25325701
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 902

end page

  • 910

volume

  • 10

issue

  • 11

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