Dong Mingming, Liu Xiaoyan, Zhao Changrui, Fang Zheng, Wang Zhongyu, Guo Xin, Wang Yan, Li Yanan, Ye Mingliang, Jia Lingyun
MOE Key Laboratory of Bio-Intelligent Manufacturing, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116000, Liaoning, China.
State Key Laboratory of Medical Proteomics, National Chromatographic R. & A. Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
Anal Bioanal Chem. 2025 Apr;417(10):2169-2183. doi: 10.1007/s00216-025-05805-3. Epub 2025 Feb 25.
Protein glycosylation plays essential roles in regulating innate and adaptive immune response. Previous studies only focused on individual protein-glycan interactions or specific glycoform changes during T cell activation, yet the systematic characterization of protein glycosylation alterations remains insufficiently elucidated. To address these limitations, we conducted temporally resolved quantitative analysis of glycoforms, site-specific glycans, glycoproteins, and glycosylation enzymes in activated Jurkat T cells, and successfully portrayed the dynamic landscape of protein glycosylation during Jurkat T cell activation. We found the heterogeneity and number of significantly upregulated glycopeptides increased along with activation. For most glycopeptides, their alteration patterns did not correlate with the abundance of their glycoprotein substrates. However, functional molecules including CD69, CD28, and PTPRC demonstrated co-upregulation at both the protein and glycosylation levels. Correlation analysis between glycopeptides and glycotransferases indicated that sialylated or fucosylated peptides were well correlated with enzymes involved in glycan branching and capping. Comparative analysis of global peptides, glycopeptides, and phosphopeptides revealed their distinctive changing patterns along Jurkat T cell activation, and only glycosylation demonstrated a steady increase trend with a large proportion of upregulated glycopeptides. Collectively, this integrated multi-proteomics characterization of activated Jurkat T cells provided insights for the development of novel therapeutic strategy targeting glycosylation.
蛋白质糖基化在调节先天性和适应性免疫反应中发挥着重要作用。以往的研究仅关注T细胞活化过程中单个蛋白质-聚糖相互作用或特定糖型变化,然而蛋白质糖基化改变的系统表征仍未得到充分阐明。为了解决这些局限性,我们对活化的Jurkat T细胞中的糖型、位点特异性聚糖、糖蛋白和糖基化酶进行了时间分辨定量分析,并成功描绘了Jurkat T细胞活化过程中蛋白质糖基化的动态图谱。我们发现显著上调的糖肽的异质性和数量随着活化而增加。对于大多数糖肽,它们的变化模式与其糖蛋白底物的丰度无关。然而,包括CD69、CD28和PTPRC在内的功能分子在蛋白质和糖基化水平上均表现出共同上调。糖肽与糖基转移酶之间的相关性分析表明,唾液酸化或岩藻糖基化的肽与参与聚糖分支和封端的酶密切相关。对整体肽、糖肽和磷酸肽的比较分析揭示了它们在Jurkat T细胞活化过程中独特的变化模式,只有糖基化表现出稳定的增加趋势,且有很大比例的糖肽上调。总的来说,这种对活化的Jurkat T细胞的综合多组学表征为开发针对糖基化的新型治疗策略提供了见解。