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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 177, Issue 4, Pages 2431-2440Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.4.2431
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 50143, R01 AI050143] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 62116, U54 GM062116, GM 074128] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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Differentiation and activation of lymphocytes are documented to result in changes in glycosylation associated with biologically important consequences. In this report, we have systematically examined global changes in N-linked glycosylation following activation of murine CD4 T cells, CD8 T cells, and B cells by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry profiling, and investigated the molecular basis for those changes by assessing alterations in the expression of glycan transferase genes. Surprisingly, the major change observed in activated CD4 and CD8 T cells was a dramatic reduction of sialylated biantennary N-glycans carrying the terminal NeuGc alpha 2-6Gal sequence, and a corresponding increase in glycans carrying the Gal alpha 1-3Gal sequence. This change was Accounted for by a decrease in the expression of the sialyltransferase ST7Gal I, and an increase in the expression of the galactosyltransferase, alpha 1-3GalT. Conversely, in B cells no change in terminal sialylation of N-linked glycans was evident, and the expression of the same two glycosyltransferases was increased and decreased, respectively. The results have implications for differential recognition of activated and unactivated T cells by dendritic cells and B cells expressing glycan-binding proteins that recognize terminal sequences of N-linked glycans.
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