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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 298, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101622
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- NWO Medium from the Dutch Research Council [91116004]
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In this study, we demonstrate that a commonly used enrichment strategy can reliably identify peptides carrying a type A glycan modification and discovered a rare modification structure. These findings can be used to advance the understanding of biosynthesis models for this modification.
The type A glycan modification found in human pathogen Clostridioides difficile consists of a monosaccharide (GlcNAc) that is linked to an N-methylated threonine through a phosphodiester bond. This structure has previously been described on the flagellar protein flagellin C of several C. difficile strains and is important for bacterial motility. The study of post-translational modifications often relies on some type of enrichment strategy; however, a procedure for enrichment of this modification has not yet been demonstrated. In this study, we show that an approach that is commonly used in phosphoproteomics, Fe3+-immobilized metal affinity chromatography, also enriches for peptides with this unique post-translational modification. Using LC-MS/MS analyses of immobilized metal affinity chromatography-captured tryptic peptides, we observed not only type A-modified C. difficile flagellin peptides but also a variety of truncated/modified type A structures on these peptides. Using an elaborate set of mass spectrometry analyses, we demonstrate that one of these modifications consists of a type A structure containing a phosphonate (2-aminoethylphosphonate), a modification that is rarely observed and has hitherto not been described in C. difficile. In conclusion, we show that a common enrichment strategy results in reliable identification of peptides carrying a type A glycan modification, and that the results obtained can be used to advance models about its biosynthesis.
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