Agrawal Praveen, Chen Shuhui, de Pablos Ana, Vadlamudi Yellamandayya, Vand-Rajabpour Fatemeh, Jame-Chenarboo Faezeh, Kar Swarnali, Yanke Amanda Flores, Berico Pietro, de Vega Eleazar Miera Saenz, Darvishian Farbod, Osman Iman, Lujambio Amaia, Mahal Lara K, Hernando Eva
Department of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
Sci Adv. 2025 Jul 4;11(27):eadg3481. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg3481.
Aberrant glycosylation is a hallmark of cancer biology, and altered glycosylation influences multiple facets of melanoma progression. To identify glycosyltransferases, glycans, and glycoproteins essential for melanoma maintenance, we conducted an in vivo growth screen with a pooled short hairpin RNA library of glycosyltransferases, lectin microarray profiling of benign nevus and melanoma samples, and mass spectrometry-based glycoproteomics. We found that α-2,3-sialyltransferases ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 and corresponding α-2,3-linked sialosides are up-regulated in melanoma compared to nevi and are essential for melanoma growth. Glycoproteomics revealed that glycoprotein targets of ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 are enriched in transmembrane proteins involved in growth signaling, including the amino acid transporter SLC3A2/CD98hc. CD98hc suppression mimicked the effect of ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 silencing, inhibiting melanoma cell proliferation. We found that both CD98hc protein stability and its prosurvival effect on melanoma are dependent upon α-2,3-sialylation mediated by ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2. Our studies reveal α-2,3-sialosides functionally contributing to melanoma maintenance, supporting ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 as therapeutic targets in melanoma.
异常糖基化是癌症生物学的一个标志,糖基化改变会影响黑色素瘤进展的多个方面。为了确定黑色素瘤维持所必需的糖基转移酶、聚糖和糖蛋白,我们使用糖基转移酶的短发夹RNA文库进行了体内生长筛选,对良性痣和黑色素瘤样本进行了凝集素微阵列分析,并进行了基于质谱的糖蛋白质组学研究。我们发现,与痣相比,α-2,3-唾液酸转移酶ST3GAL1和ST3GAL2以及相应的α-2,3-连接唾液酸在黑色素瘤中上调,并且对黑色素瘤生长至关重要。糖蛋白质组学显示,ST3GAL1和ST3GAL2的糖蛋白靶点富含参与生长信号传导的跨膜蛋白,包括氨基酸转运体SLC3A2/CD98hc。抑制CD98hc模拟了ST3GAL1和ST3GAL2沉默的效果,抑制了黑色素瘤细胞的增殖。我们发现,CD98hc的蛋白质稳定性及其对黑色素瘤的促生存作用均依赖于ST3GAL1和ST3GAL2介导的α-2,3-唾液酸化。我们的研究揭示了α-2,3-唾液酸在功能上有助于黑色素瘤的维持,支持将ST3GAL1和ST3GAL2作为黑色素瘤的治疗靶点。
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