Journal
AMINO ACIDS
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 793-808Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-010-0695-z
Keywords
O-GlcNAc; Cellular stress; Glycosylation; Signal transduction; Chaperone; Cell stress
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- NIH [HD R37-13563, CA R01-42486, DK-R01-61671, DK-R21/33-71280, U54RR020839]
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health [N01-HV-28180]
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The modification of nuclear, mitochondrial, and cytoplasmic proteins by O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a dynamic and essential post-translational modification of metazoans. Numerous forms of cellular injury lead to elevated levels of O-GlcNAc in both in vivo and in vitro models, and elevation of O-GlcNAc levels before, or immediately after, the induction of cellular injury is protective in models of heat stress, oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, hypoxia, ischemia reperfusion injury, and trauma hemorrhage. Together, these data suggest that O-GlcNAc is a regulator of the cellular stress response. However, the molecular mechanism(s) by which O-GlcNAc regulates protein function leading to enhanced cell survival have not been identified. In order to determine how O-GlcNAc modulates stress tolerance in these models we have used stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture to determine the identity of proteins that undergo O-GlcNAcylation in response to heat shock. Numerous proteins with diverse functions were identified, including NF-90, RuvB-like 1 (Tip49 alpha), RuvB-like 2 (Tip49 beta), and several COPII vesicle transport proteins. Many of these proteins bind double-stranded DNA-dependent protein kinase (PK), or double-stranded DNA breaks, suggesting a role for O-GlcNAc in regulating DNA damage signaling or repair. Supporting this hypothesis, we have shown that DNA-PK is O-GlcNAc modified in response to numerous forms of cellular stress.
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