scholarly journals Cell-specific Bioorthogonal Tagging of Glycoproteins in Co-culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Cioce ◽  
Beatriz Calle ◽  
Andrea Marchesi ◽  
Ganka Bineva-Todd ◽  
Helen Flynn ◽  
...  

Interactions between cells fundamentally impact biological processes. In cancer development, such interactions define key stages of disease that cannot be adequately recapitulated in cell monoculture. Complex co-culture studies have been key to unraveling the complexity of these processes, usually by sorting cells and transcriptome or bulk proteome analyses. However, these methods invariably lead to sample loss and do not capture aberrant glycosylation as an important corollary of cancer formation. Here, we report the development of Bio-Orthogonal Cell line-specific Tagging of Glycoproteins (BOCTAG). Cells are equipped with a biosynthetic AND gate that uses bioorthogonally tagged sugars to generate glycosylation precursors. The cellular glycosylation machinery then introduces bioorthogonal tags into glycoproteins exclusively in cell lines expressing the enzymes of the biosynthetic AND gate. Modification with clickable reporter moieties allows for imaging or enrichment with mass spectrometry-proteomics in a cell-specific fashion. Making use of glycans as a property of most cell surface proteins, we use BOCTAG as an efficient means for cell-specific protein tracing.

Cancers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler S. Keeley ◽  
Shengyu Yang ◽  
Eric Lau

Fucosylation is a post-translational modification of glycans, proteins, and lipids that is responsible for many biological processes. Fucose conjugation via α(1,2), α(1,3), α(1,4), α(1,6), and O’- linkages to glycans, and variations in fucosylation linkages, has important implications for cancer biology. This review focuses on the roles that fucosylation plays in cancer, specifically through modulation of cell surface proteins and signaling pathways. How L-fucose and serum fucosylation patterns might be used for future clinical diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic approaches will be discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (46) ◽  
pp. E10988-E10997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damaris Bausch-Fluck ◽  
Ulrich Goldmann ◽  
Sebastian Müller ◽  
Marc van Oostrum ◽  
Maik Müller ◽  
...  

Cell-surface proteins are of great biomedical importance, as demonstrated by the fact that 66% of approved human drugs listed in the DrugBank database target a cell-surface protein. Despite this biomedical relevance, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the human surfaceome, and only a fraction of the predicted 5,000 human transmembrane proteins have been shown to be located at the plasma membrane. To enable analysis of the human surfaceome, we developed the surfaceome predictor SURFY, based on machine learning. As a training set, we used experimentally verified high-confidence cell-surface proteins from the Cell Surface Protein Atlas (CSPA) and trained a random forest classifier on 131 features per protein and, specifically, per topological domain. SURFY was used to predict a human surfaceome of 2,886 proteins with an accuracy of 93.5%, which shows excellent overlap with known cell-surface protein classes (i.e., receptors). In deposited mRNA data, we found that between 543 and 1,100 surfaceome genes were expressed in cancer cell lines and maximally 1,700 surfaceome genes were expressed in embryonic stem cells and derivative lines. Thus, the surfaceome diversity depends on cell type and appears to be more dynamic than the nonsurface proteome. To make the predicted surfaceome readily accessible to the research community, we provide visualization tools for intuitive interrogation (wlab.ethz.ch/surfaceome). The in silico surfaceome enables the filtering of data generated by multiomics screens and supports the elucidation of the surfaceome nanoscale organization.


1977 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 464-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Takeichi

The adhesive properties of Chinese hamster V79 cells were analyzed and characterized by various cell dissociation treatments. The comparisons of aggregability among cells dissociated with EDTA, trypsin + Ca2+, and trypsin + EDTA, revealed that these cells have two adhesion mechanisms, a Ca2+-independent and a Ca2+-dependent one. The former did not depend on temperature, whereas the latter occurred only at physiological temperatures. Both mechanisms were trypsin sensitive, but the Ca2+-dependent one was protected by Ca2+ against trypsinization. In morphological studies, the Ca2+-independent adhesion appeared to be a simple agglutination or flocculation of cells, whereas the Ca2+-dependent adhesion seemed to be more physiological, being accompanied by cell deformation resulting in the increase of contact area between adjacent cells. Lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination of cell surface proteins revealed that several proteins are more intensely labeled in cells with Ca2+-independent adhesiveness than in cells without that property. It was also found that a cell surface protein with a molecular weight of approximately 150,000 is present only in cells with Ca2+-dependent adhesiveness. The iodination and trypsinization of this protein were protected by Ca2+, suggesting its reactivity to Ca2+. Possible mechanisms for each adhesion property are discussed, taking into account the correlation of these proteins with cell adhesiveness.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Elschenbroich ◽  
Yunee Kim ◽  
Jeffrey A Medin ◽  
Thomas Kislinger

1980 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 866-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Hsieh ◽  
N Sueoka

Antiserum against a rat neuronal tumor cell line (B103) has been prepared in rabbit by intravenous injection of live cells. This immune serum (anti-B103) precipitates a few cell surface proteins recognizable by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis as common radioiodinatable spots in 15 different rat neural cell lines and in mouse and rat fibroblast cell lines. The apparent molecular weight of one major common protein (II4) is estimated by SDS gel electrophoresis to be somewhere between 80,000 and 90,000 and another protein (I3) to be 120,000. These two proteins are consistently recognized in various cell lines by this antiserum. Furthermore, at a 1:20 dilution, this serum causes monolayer cells to round up usually within 0.5 h and detach from the plate within 3 h. It also inhibits spreading of freshly plated cells. These effects of the antiserum are reversible. Upon absorption of the antiserum with cells (e.g., absorbed with a glial cell line, B27), the serum no longer causes the rounding up of the monolayer cells, it does not inhibit cell spreading, and it does not immune-precipitate the two common proteins from the cell surface of various cell lines. Antisera against several other rat cell lines also precipitate the same common proteins (II4 and I3) from the cell surface and prevent cell spreading. These data suggest that the antibody acts first at the cell surface and then inhibits cell spreading or rounding up of spread cells. The consistent pattern of the immunoprecipitated cell surface proteins on the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis makes these two common surface proteins (II4 or I3 or both) possible candidates for target proteins to which the antibody binds. Thus, they may play a critical role in cell spreading.


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