1. N-glycosylation profiles of the SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G mutant and its ancestral protein characterized by advanced mass spectrometry.
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Wang D, Zhou B, Keppel TR, Solano M, Baudys J, Goldstein J, Finn MG, Fan X, Chapman AP, Bundy JL, Woolfitt AR, Osman SH, Pirkle JL, Wentworth DE, and Barr JR
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- Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 chemistry, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 metabolism, COVID-19 pathology, COVID-19 virology, Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, Glycosylation, Humans, Mutation, Protein Binding, Protein Structure, Tertiary, SARS-CoV-2 isolation & purification, Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus chemistry, Glycopeptides analysis, Mass Spectrometry methods, SARS-CoV-2 metabolism, Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus metabolism
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N-glycosylation plays an important role in the structure and function of membrane and secreted proteins. The spike protein on the surface of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, is heavily glycosylated and the major target for developing vaccines, therapeutic drugs and diagnostic tests. The first major SARS-CoV-2 variant carries a D614G substitution in the spike (S-D614G) that has been associated with altered conformation, enhanced ACE2 binding, and increased infectivity and transmission. In this report, we used mass spectrometry techniques to characterize and compare the N-glycosylation of the wild type (S-614D) or variant (S-614G) SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins prepared under identical conditions. The data showed that half of the N-glycosylation sequons changed their distribution of glycans in the S-614G variant. The S-614G variant showed a decrease in the relative abundance of complex-type glycans (up to 45%) and an increase in oligomannose glycans (up to 33%) on all altered sequons. These changes led to a reduction in the overall complexity of the total N-glycosylation profile. All the glycosylation sites with altered patterns were in the spike head while the glycosylation of three sites in the stalk remained unchanged between S-614G and S-614D proteins., (© 2021. The Author(s).)
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- 2021
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