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SUBMITTER: Marino F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4603548 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20150819 34
We report unexpected mass spectrometric observations of glycosylated human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I-bound peptides. Complemented by molecular modeling, in vitro enzymatic assays, and oxonium ion patterns, we propose that the observed O-linked glycans carrying up to five monosaccharides are extended O-GlcNAc's rather than GalNAc-initiated O-glycans. A cytosolic O-GlcNAc modification is normally terminal and does not extend to produce a polysaccharide, but O-GlcNAc on an HLA peptide present ...[more]