Analytical and biochemical perspectives of protein O-GlcNAcylation

J Ma, C Wu, GW Hart - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) modification (O-GlcNAcylation) is a
unique monosaccharide modification discovered in the early 1980s. With the technological …

Advances in chemical probing of protein O-GlcNAc glycosylation: structural role and molecular mechanisms

A Saha, D Bello, A Fernández-Tejada - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The addition of O-linked-β-DN-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) onto serine and threonine
residues of nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins is an abundant, unique post-translational …

Discovery of MK-8719, a potent O-GlcNAcase inhibitor as a potential treatment for tauopathies

HG Selnick, JF Hess, C Tang, K Liu… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Inhibition of O-GlcNAcase (OGA) has emerged as a promising therapeutic approach to treat
tau pathology in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and progressive …

Design and synthesis of glycomimetics: Recent advances

A Tamburrini, C Colombo… - Medicinal research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the past few decades, our understanding of glycan information‐encoding power has
notably increased, thus leading to a significant growth also in the design and synthesis of …

Lytic transglycosylases: concinnity in concision of the bacterial cell wall

DA Dik, DR Marous, JF Fisher… - Critical Reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The lytic transglycosylases (LTs) are bacterial enzymes that catalyze the non-hydrolytic
cleavage of the peptidoglycan structures of the bacterial cell wall. They are not catalysts of …

Potent de novo macrocyclic peptides that inhibit O‐GlcNAc transferase through an allosteric mechanism

MG Alteen, H Peacock, RW Meek… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Glycosyltransferases are a superfamily of enzymes that are notoriously difficult to inhibit.
Here we apply an mRNA display technology integrated with genetic code reprogramming …

Understanding and exploiting the roles of O-GlcNAc in neurodegenerative diseases

MR Pratt, DJ Vocadlo - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
O-GlcNAc is a common modification found on nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins.
Determining the catalytic mechanism of the enzyme O-GlcNAcase (OGA), which removes O …

Structural and functional insight into human O-GlcNAcase

C Roth, S Chan, WA Offen, GR Hemsworth… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
O-GlcNAc hydrolase (OGA) removes O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) from a
myriad of nucleocytoplasmic proteins. Through co-expression and assembly of OGA …

O-GlcNAcase inhibitors as potential therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies: analysis of the patent literature

JM Bartolomé-Nebreda, AA Trabanco… - Expert opinion on …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: O-GlcNAcylation is a highly abundant post-translational modification of multiple
proteins, including the microtubule-binding protein tau, governed by just two enzymes' …

Monitoring and modulating O-GlcNAcylation: assays and inhibitors of O-GlcNAc processing enzymes

MG Alteen, HY Tan, DJ Vocadlo - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Good cell active competitive inhibitors of O-GlcNAc processing enzymes are
available.•In vitro assays for O-GlcNAc processing enzymes are established.•OGA inhibitors …