We thank Zehavit Frenkel and Sandra Tolchinsky for technical assistance. Research related to this work is supported by grants from the Israel Science Foundation (1229/07) and German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP-DFG).

The following protocol is intended for analysis of sugar chains of total glycoproteins or of a specific glycoprotein of interest. The procedure is basically the same for both cases with a few alterations as stated throughout the protocol.
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 <li> For metabolic labeling of N-linked glycans one needs to use a subconfluent culture of mammalian cells grown overnight in a 90 mm dish for each sample (samples may represent different time points or treatments). This protocol is optimized for NIH 3T3 cells. </li>
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The pulse-chase analysis of glycans in live cells with HPLC separation provides a method for studying the dynamics of oligosaccharide structural alterations throughout the life of a glycoprotein. There is growing evidence that such alterations are involved in producing the signals for ER folding, quality control and trafficking systems 2-5. The method can be applied not only for a specific glycoprotein of interest but also for analyzing the dynamics of the structure of total glycoproteins, as illustrated in th...

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pulse-chase analysis of n-linked sugar chains from glycoproteins in mammalian cells

Attachment of the Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 precursor oligosaccharide to nascent polypeptides in the ER is a common modification for secretory proteins. Although this modification was implicated in several biological processes, additional aspects of its function are emerging, with recent evidence of its role in the production of signals for glycoprotein quality control and trafficking. Thus, phenomena related to N-linked glycans and their processing are being intensively investigated. Methods that have been recently developed for proteomic analysis have greatly improved the characterization of glycoprotein N-linked glycans. Nevertheless, they do not provide insight into the dynamics of the sugar chain processing involved. For this, labeling and pulse-chase analysis protocols are used that are usually complex and give very low yields. We describe here a simple method for the isolation and analysis of metabolically labeled N-linked oligosaccharides. The protocol is based on labeling of cells with [2-3H] mannose, denaturing lysis and enzymatic release of the oligosaccharides from either a specifically immunoprecipitated protein of interest or from the general glycoprotein pool by sequential treatments with endo H and N-glycosidase F, followed by molecular filtration (Amicon). In this method the isolated oligosaccharides serve as an input for HPLC analysis, which allows discrimination between various glycan structures according to the number of monosaccharide units comprising them, with a resolution of a single monosaccharide. Using this method we were able to study high mannose N-linked oligosaccharide profiles of total cell glycoproteins after pulse-chase in normal conditions and under proteasome inhibition. These profiles were compared to those obtained from an immunoprecipitated ER-associated degradation (ERAD) substrate. Our results suggest that most NIH 3T3 cellular glycoproteins are relatively stable and that most of their oligosaccharides are trimmed to Man9-8GlcNAc2. In contrast, unstable ERAD substrates are trimmed to Man6-5GlcNAc2 and glycoproteins bearing these species accumulate upon inhibition of proteasomal degradation.

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Pulse-chase Analysis of N-linked Sugar Chains from Glycoproteins in Mammalian Cells

We describe a method for analysis of the alteration of N-linked glycans through the early life of glycoproteins after their biosynthesis in mammalian cells. This is achieved by pulse-chase analysis of metabolically labeled glycans, enzymatic release from glycoproteins and examination by HPLC.

Attachment of the Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 precursor oligosaccharide to nascent polypeptides in the ER is a common modification for secretory proteins. Although ...

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15.1K vistas.  Tel Aviv University. Se describe un método para el análisis de la alteración de la N-glicanos ligados a través de los primeros años de vida de las glicoproteínas después de su biosíntesis en células de mamíferos. Esto se logra mediante pulso-caza análisis de glicanos metabólicamente etiquetados, liberación enzimática de las glicoproteínas y análisis por HPLC.