TY - JOUR
T1 - Glycomics profiling of Chinese hamster ovary cell glycosylation mutants reveals N-glycans of a novel size and complexity
AU - North, Simon J.
AU - Huang, Hung Hsiang
AU - Sundaram, Subha
AU - Jang-Lee, Jihye
AU - Etienne, A. Tony
AU - Trollope, Alana
AU - Chalabi, Sara
AU - Dell, Anne
AU - Stanley, Pamela
AU - Haslam, Stuart M.
PY - 2010/2/19
Y1 - 2010/2/19
N2 - Identifying biological roles for mammalian glycans and the pathways by which they are synthesized has been greatly facilitated by investigations of glycosylation mutants of cultured cell lines and model organisms. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) glycosylation mutants isolated on the basis of their lectin resistance have been particularly useful for glycosylation engineering of recombinant glycoproteins. To further enhance the application of these mutants, and to obtain insights into the effects of altering one specific glycosyltransferase or glycosylation activity on the overall expression of cellular glycans, an analysis of the N-glycans and major O-glycans of a panel of CHO mutants was performed using glycomic analyses anchored by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight/time of flight mass spectrometry. We report here the complement of the major N-glycans and O-glycans present in nine distinct CHO glycosylation mutants. Parent CHO cells grown in monolayer versus suspension culture had similar profiles ofN- andO-GalNAc glycans, although the profiles of glycosylation mutants Lec1, Lec2, Lec3.2.8.1, Lec4, LEC10, LEC11, LEC12, Lec13, and LEC30 were consistent with available genetic and biochemical data. However, the complexity of the range of N-glycans observed was unexpected. Several of the complex N-glycan profiles contained structures ofm/z∼13,000 representing complexN-glycans with a total of 26 N-acetyllactosamine (Galβ1-4GlcNAc)n units. Importantly, the LEC11, LEC12, and LEC30 CHO mutants exhibited unique complements of fucosylated complex N-glycans terminating in Lewisx and sialyl-Lewisx determinants. This analysis reveals the larger-than-expected complexity of N-glycans in CHO cell mutants that may be used in a broad variety of functional glycomics studies and for making recombinant glycoproteins.
AB - Identifying biological roles for mammalian glycans and the pathways by which they are synthesized has been greatly facilitated by investigations of glycosylation mutants of cultured cell lines and model organisms. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) glycosylation mutants isolated on the basis of their lectin resistance have been particularly useful for glycosylation engineering of recombinant glycoproteins. To further enhance the application of these mutants, and to obtain insights into the effects of altering one specific glycosyltransferase or glycosylation activity on the overall expression of cellular glycans, an analysis of the N-glycans and major O-glycans of a panel of CHO mutants was performed using glycomic analyses anchored by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight/time of flight mass spectrometry. We report here the complement of the major N-glycans and O-glycans present in nine distinct CHO glycosylation mutants. Parent CHO cells grown in monolayer versus suspension culture had similar profiles ofN- andO-GalNAc glycans, although the profiles of glycosylation mutants Lec1, Lec2, Lec3.2.8.1, Lec4, LEC10, LEC11, LEC12, Lec13, and LEC30 were consistent with available genetic and biochemical data. However, the complexity of the range of N-glycans observed was unexpected. Several of the complex N-glycan profiles contained structures ofm/z∼13,000 representing complexN-glycans with a total of 26 N-acetyllactosamine (Galβ1-4GlcNAc)n units. Importantly, the LEC11, LEC12, and LEC30 CHO mutants exhibited unique complements of fucosylated complex N-glycans terminating in Lewisx and sialyl-Lewisx determinants. This analysis reveals the larger-than-expected complexity of N-glycans in CHO cell mutants that may be used in a broad variety of functional glycomics studies and for making recombinant glycoproteins.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M109.068353
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M109.068353
M3 - Article
C2 - 19951948
AN - SCOPUS:77949325755
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 285
SP - 5759
EP - 5775
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 8
ER -