Protein O-GlcNAcylation: emerging mechanisms and functions

X Yang, K Qian - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
O-GlcNAcylation—the attachment of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) moieties to
cytoplasmic, nuclear and mitochondrial proteins—is a post-translational modification that …

Insights into the post-translational modification and its emerging role in shaping the tumor microenvironment

W Li, F Li, X Zhang, HK Lin, C Xu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
More and more in-depth studies have revealed that the occurrence and development of
tumors depend on gene mutation and tumor heterogeneity. The most important …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiovascular disorders in diabetes

MS Shah, M Brownlee - Circulation research, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
The clinical correlations linking diabetes mellitus with accelerated atherosclerosis,
cardiomyopathy, and increased post-myocardial infarction fatality rates are increasingly …

Fueling the fire: emerging role of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway in cancer

NM Akella, L Ciraku, MJ Reginato - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Altered metabolism and deregulated cellular energetics are now considered a hallmark of
all cancers. Glucose, glutamine, fatty acids, and amino acids are the primary drivers of tumor …

Inhibition of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase overcomes differentiation blockade in acute myeloid leukemia

DB Sykes, YS Kfoury, FE Mercier, MJ Wawer, JM Law… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
While acute myeloid leukemia (AML) comprises many disparate genetic subtypes, one
shared hallmark is the arrest of leukemic myeloblasts at an immature and self-renewing …

Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine protein modification in cellular (patho)physiology

JC Chatham, J Zhang, AR Wende - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
In the mid-1980s, the identification of serine and threonine residues on nuclear and
cytoplasmic proteins modified by a N-acetylglucosamine moiety (O-GlcNAc) via an O …

Analytical and biochemical perspectives of protein O-GlcNAcylation

J Ma, C Wu, GW Hart - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) modification (O-GlcNAcylation) is a
unique monosaccharide modification discovered in the early 1980s. With the technological …

O-GlcNAcylation in health and neurodegenerative diseases

BE Lee, PG Suh, JI Kim - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
O-GlcNAcylation is a posttranslational modification that adds O-linked β-N-
acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) to serine or threonine residues of many proteins. This protein …

Mitochondrial dynamics at the interface of immune cell metabolism and function

AS Rambold, EL Pearce - Trends in immunology, 2018 - cell.com
Immune cell differentiation and function are crucially dependent on specific metabolic
programs dictated by mitochondria, including the generation of ATP from the oxidation of …

Biological roles of glycans

A Varki - Glycobiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Simple and complex carbohydrates (glycans) have long been known to play major
metabolic, structural and physical roles in biological systems. Targeted microbial binding to …