화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.138, No.34, 10722-10725, 2016
Glyco-seek: Ultrasensitive Detection of Protein-Specific Glycosylation by Proximity Ligation Polymerase Chain Reaction
We report a non-destructive biochemical technique, termed "Glyco-seek", for analysis of O-GlcN-Acylated proteins. Glyco-seek combines chemoenzymatic labeling, proximity ligation, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction to detect O-GlcNAcylated proteins with ultrahigh sensitivity. Our glycan-specific assay can be paired with traditional proximity ligation assays to simultaneously determine the change in total protein levels. We show that Glyco-seek detects attomoles of glycoproteins of interest from cell lysates, with sensitivity several orders of magnitude higher than that of current techniques. We used the method to directly assay the O-GlcNAcylation status of a low abundance transcription factor from cell lysates without need for isolation Or enrichment.