N-Glycan Modification of a Recombinant Protein via Coexpression of Human Glycosyltransferases in Silkworm Pupae

T Kato, N Kako, K Kikuta, T Miyazaki, S Kondo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Recombinant proteins produced in insect cells and insects, unlike those produced in
mammalian cells, have pauci-mannose-type N-glycans. In this study, we examined complex …

Heterologous expression, purification and characterization of human β-1, 2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II using a silkworm-based Bombyx mori …

T Miyazaki, T Kato, EY Park - Journal of bioscience and bioengineering, 2018 - Elsevier
β-1, 2-N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase II (GnTII, EC 2.4. 1.143) is a Golgi-localized type II
transmembrane enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of N-acetylglucosamine to the 6-arm of …

Expression and characterization of silkworm Bombyx mori β-1, 2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II, a key enzyme for complex-type N-glycan biosynthesis

T Miyazaki, R Miyashita, S Mori, T Kato… - Journal of bioscience and …, 2019 - Elsevier
N-glycans are involved in various physiological functions and their structures diverge among
different phyla and kingdoms. Insect cells mainly produce high mannose-type and …

Comparison of the N-linked glycosylation of human β1, 3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 2 expressed in insect cells and silkworm larvae

T Dojima, T Nishina, T Kato, T Uno, H Yagi, K Kato… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
N-Glycosylation of human β1, 3N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 2 (β3GnT2) is essential for
its biological function. β3GnT2 fused to GFPuv (GFPuv–β3GnT2) was produced by non-virus …

N-Glycosylation engineering of lepidopteran insect cells by the introduction of the β1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase III gene

T Okada, H Ihara, R Ito, M Nakano, K Matsumoto… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The baculovirus–insect cell expression system is in widespread use for expressing post-
translationally modified proteins. As a result, it is potentially applicable for the production of …

Targeted glycoengineering extends the protein N-glycosylation pathway in the silkworm silk gland

H Mabashi-Asazuma, BH Sohn, YS Kim… - Insect biochemistry and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The silkworm silk glands are powerful secretory organs that can produce and secrete
proteins at high levels. As such, it has been suggested that the biosynthetic and secretory …

Biochemical characterization and mutational analysis of silkworm Bombyx mori β-1, 4-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase and insight into the substrate specificity of β …

T Miyazaki, R Miyashita, S Nakamura, M Ikegaya… - Insect biochemistry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Silkworm Bombyx mori is one of the insect hosts for recombinant protein production at
academic and industrial levels. B. mori and other insect cells can produce mammalian …

RNAi suppression of β-N-acetylglucosaminidase (BmFDL) for complex-type N-linked glycan synthesis in cultured silkworm cells

Y Nagata, JM Lee, H Mon, S Imanishi, SM Hong… - Biotechnology …, 2013 - Springer
Glycoproteins have various biological functions including enzymatic activity, protein stability
and others. Due to the presence of paucimannosidic N-linked glycans, recombinant proteins …

Improvement of glycosylation structure by suppression of β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in silkworm

T Nomura, M Suganuma, Y Higa, Y Kataoka… - Journal of bioscience …, 2015 - Elsevier
The baculovirus-silkworm recombinant protein expression system is an excellent method for
achieving high-level expression and post-translational modifications, especially …

Engineering the protein N-glycosylation pathway in insect cells for production of biantennary, complex N-glycans

J Hollister, E Grabenhorst, M Nimtz, H Conradt… - Biochemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
Insect cells, like other eucaryotic cells, modify many of their proteins by N-glycosylation.
However, the endogenous insect cell N-glycan processing machinery generally does not …