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- Title
N-linked glycosylation in Campylobacter jejuni and its functional transfer into E. coli.
- Authors
Wacker, Michael; Linton, Dennis; Hitchen, Paul G; Nita-Lazar, Mihai; Haslam, Stuart M; North, Simon J; Panico, Maria; Morris, Howard R; Dell, Anne; Wren, Brendan W; Aebi, Markus
- Abstract
N-linked protein glycosylation is the most abundant posttranslation modification of secretory proteins in eukaryotes. A wide range of functions are attributed to glycan structures covalently linked to asparagine residues within the asparagine-X-serine/threonine consensus sequence (Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr). We found an N-linked glycosylation system in the bacterium Campylobacter jejuni and demonstrate that a functional N-linked glycosylation pathway could be transferred into Escherichia coli. Although the bacterial N-glycan differs structurally from its eukaryotic counterparts, the cloning of a universal N-linked glycosylation cassette in E. coli opens up the possibility of engineering permutations of recombinant glycan structures for research and industrial applications.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2002, Vol 298, Issue 5599, p1790
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.298.5599.1790