2021
Small RNAs are modified with N-glycans and displayed on the surface of living cells
Flynn RA, Pedram K, Malaker SA, Batista PJ, Smith BAH, Johnson AG, George BM, Majzoub K, Villalta PW, Carette JE, Bertozzi CR. Small RNAs are modified with N-glycans and displayed on the surface of living cells. Cell 2021, 184: 3109-3124.e22. PMID: 34004145, PMCID: PMC9097497, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.04.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLiving cellsGlycan biosynthetic machineryDomains of lifeMultiple cell typesRNA biologySmall RNAsExtracellular biologyBiosynthetic machineryBiochemical approachesMammalian speciesBattery of chemicalAnti-dsRNA antibodiesN-glycansCell typesReceptor familyCultured cellsCell surfaceRNAThird scaffoldGlycoRNABiologyMajor targetGlycosylationGlycansSialic acid
2019
The mucin-selective protease StcE enables molecular and functional analysis of human cancer-associated mucins
Malaker SA, Pedram K, Ferracane MJ, Bensing BA, Krishnan V, Pett C, Yu J, Woods EC, Kramer JR, Westerlind U, Dorigo O, Bertozzi CR. The mucin-selective protease StcE enables molecular and functional analysis of human cancer-associated mucins. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2019, 116: 7278-7287. PMID: 30910957, PMCID: PMC6462054, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813020116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsModular protein domainsProtein domainsSecreted proteinsMucin domainFunctional analysisHuman diseasesMucin biologyGlycosylation patternsCultured cellsMolecular levelCell surfaceSequence coverageKey playersBacterial proteasesCancer-associated mucinsDiscrete peptidesBiological ligandsProteaseHuman mucinsGlycoform analysisStcESiglec-9Domain structureMass spectrometryDomain