Tandem Mass Spectrometry Identifies Many Mouse Brain O-Glcnacylated
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Tandem mass spectrometry identifies many mouse brain O-GlcNAcylated proteins including EGF domain-specific O-GlcNAc transferase targets Joshua F. Alfaroa, Cheng-Xin Gongb, Matthew E. Monroea, Joshua T. Aldricha, Therese R. W. Claussa,SamuelO.Purvinea, Zihao Wangc, David G. Camp IIa, Jeffrey Shabanowitzd, Pamela Stanleye, Gerald W. Hartc, Donald F. Huntd, Feng Yanga,1, and Richard D. Smitha,1 aPacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352; bDepartment of Neurochemistry, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY 10314; cDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205; dDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904; and eDepartment of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10461 Edited by Richard L. Huganir, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and approved March 20, 2012 (received for review January 11, 2012) O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a reversible posttransla- metric levels of O-GlcNAc modification at given sites on protein tional modification of Ser and Thr residues on cytosolic and nuclear substrates necessitate enrichment of O-GlcNAcylated proteins or proteins of higher eukaryotes catalyzed by O-GlcNAc transferase peptides before sequence analysis by MS (11). Additionally, iden- O tifying specific Ser and Thr residues that are O-GlcNAcylated is (OGT). -GlcNAc has recently been found on Notch1 extracellular do- fi O main catalyzed by EGF domain-specificOGT.AberrantO-GlcNAc mod- dif cult, because -GlcNAc is readily lost as an oxonium ion during ification of brain proteins has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). collision-induced dissociation (CID), a widely used fragmentation mode for peptide sequencing by MS (12). Alternative higher-energy However, understanding specific functions of O-GlcNAcylation in AD collisional dissociation (HCD) and electron transfer dissociation has been impeded by the difficulty in characterization of O-GlcNAc fi (ETD) MS methods have improved detection or have facilitated sites on proteins. In this study, we modi ed a chemical/enzymatic site-specific identification, but challenges remain (13). photochemical cleavage approach for enriching O-GlcNAcylated pep- Several methods to enrich O-GlcNAcylated proteins or pep- tides in samples containing ∼100 μg of tryptic peptides from mouse tides have led to the identification of a limited number of BIOCHEMISTRY cerebrocortical brain tissue. A total of 274 O-GlcNAcylated proteins O-GlcNAcylation sites by MS. For example, lectin weak-affinity were identified. Of these, 168 were not previously known to be mod- chromatography (4, 10, 14) enabled identification of up to 142 ified by O-GlcNAc. Overall, 458 O-GlcNAc sites in 195 proteins were O-GlcNAcylation sites in 62 proteins from mouse embryonic stem identified. Many of the modified residues are either known phosphor- cells (15). Immunoprecipitation, using O-GlcNAc-specific mono- ylation sites or located proximal to known phosphorylation sites. clonal antibodies (13, 16), identified 83 O-GlcNAcylated sites These findings support the proposed regulatory cross-talk between from a HEK293T cell extract (13). A recent metabolic labeling fi O-GlcNAcylation and phosphorylation. This study produced the most study that used alkyne-modi ed GlcNAc incorporated into OGT O substrates and Cu(I)-catalyzed [3 + 2] azide–alkyne cycloaddition comprehensive -GlcNAc proteome of mammalian brain tissue with – both protein identification and O-GlcNAc site assignment. Interest- (CuAAC) to a chemically cleavable biotin azide probe, enabled identification of 374 putative O-GlcNAc modified proteins, but ingly, we observed O-β-GlcNAc on EGF-like repeats in the extracellular yielded no information on sites of O-GlcNAc modification (17). In domains of five membrane proteins, expanding the evidence for ex- O O fi addition to limited coverage of -GlcNAcylation sites, a drawback tracellular -GlcNAcylation by the EGF domain-speci cOGT.Wealso to using these approaches is that they typically require milligram β α O fi report a GlcNAc- -1,3-Fuc- -1- -Thr modi cation on the EGF-like re- quantities of protein (4, 10, 13, 14, 16) or are limited to cultured peat of the versican core protein, a proposed substrate of Fringe β-1,3- cells (17), which makes them generally ill-suited for clinically de- N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases. rived tissue samples often available in small amounts. The chemical/enzymatic photochemical cleavage (CEPC) method chemical/enzymatic photochemical cleavage enrichment | glycosylation | (18, 19) improves upon the highly selective chemical/enzymatic mouse cerebral cortex approaches for O-GlcNAcylated proteins/peptides enrichment (20, 21) and increases analytical sensitivity by introducing a photo- O N O chemical cleavable-biotin probe that allows efficient release of single -linked -acetylglucosamine ( -GlcNAc) attached to fi Ser and Thr residues of cytosolic and nuclear proteins is a re- enriched peptides from the avidin af nity column. In this method A (Fig. 1A), O-GlcNAcylated peptides are first enzymatically labeled versible posttranslational modification (PTM) found in some bac- fi with azidogalactosamine (GalNAz). The free azido group in the teria, some protozoans, lamentous fungi, viruses, and all higher GalNAz is then conjugated to the alkyne group in a photocleavable eukaryotes. The enzymes that catalyze the dynamic cycling of biotin probe (PC-PEG-biotin-alkyne) through CuAAC. The bio- O-GlcNAc modification, O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) and fi O tinylated peptides are enriched using avidin af nity chromatogra- -GlcNAc hexosaminidase (OGA), are more highly expressed in phy, and subsequently released through photochemical cleavage. the pancreas and brain than in other tissues (1, 2). In addition, O-GlcNAc-modified peptides enriched by this method are many proteins involved in neuronal communications, synaptic tagged with a basic aminomethyltriazolacetylgalactosamine (AMT- transmission, and synaptic plasticity are O-GlcNAcylated (3, 4), suggesting a role for this modification in brain function. O-GlcNAc cycling is highly sensitive to nutrients and stress and is regulated by Author contributions: J.F.A. and F.Y. designed research; J.F.A., T.R.W.C., and F.Y. per- nearly every metabolic pathway. Aberrant O-GlcNAc modification formed research; J.F.A., M.E.M., J.T.A., S.O.P., Z.W., F.Y., and R.D.S. contributed new has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (5, 6) in which brain reagents/analytic tools; J.F.A., J.S., P.S., G.W.H., D.F.H., and F.Y. analyzed data; and J.F.A., glucose metabolism is impaired (7). The reduced O-GlcNAcylation C.-X.G., D.G.C., P.S., G.W.H., D.F.H., F.Y., and R.D.S. wrote the paper. in AD contributes to hyperphosphorylation of tau protein and The authors declare no conflict of interest. formation of the neurofibrillary tangles characteristic of AD and This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. related neurodegenerative disorders (8, 9). 1To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] or rds@pnnl. Current understanding of the function of O-GlcNAcylation in gov. fi neurodegeneration has been impeded by dif culties in identifying This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. this modification, even using MS (10, 11). First, the substoichio- 1073/pnas.1200425109/-/DCSupplemental. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1200425109 PNAS Early Edition | 1of6 Downloaded by guest on September 30, 2021 Lysis A B WT mouse and 600 µg 20 mg cerebral trypsin desalted GalNAz transfer by corcal ssue digeson pepdes GalT1 Y289L, PNGase F 3xTg-AD mouse treatment, CIP 20 mg cerebral desalng corcal ssue 1/3 Saved Labeling with Bion-PEG-PC-Alkyne 1/3 1/3 SCX, Bion-avidin SCX, Bion-avidin Enrichment Enrichment Original Modified Wash Method Wash Method UV cleavage UV cleavage ½ sample ½ sample ½ sample CID-ETD HCD-CID/ETD HCD-CID/ETD WT 3xTg-AD WT 3xTg-AD WT 3xTg-AD *O-GlcNAc Sites: 358 152 160 135 182 139 O-GlcNAc Proteins: 249 133 126 104 144 122 Fig. 1. Overview of the CEPC method (A) and experimental work flow (B) used in this study for the identification of O-GlcNAc proteins and modification sites. (A) Steps modified in the enrichment strategy are depicted in dashed boxes. PNGase F and calf intestine phosphatase (CIP) are added to the reaction mixture to ensure selective and complete derivatization with GalNAz (18). During the CuAAC reaction, Cu(I) is stabilized with TBTA. (B) The original and modified wash methods for the biotin-avidin enrichment step were compared using peptides from one WT mouse and one 3xTg-AD mouse (female, 1 y old). The number of O-GlcNAc sites and proteins identified from LC-MS/MS analysis of individual samples is depicted at the bottom of the figure. GalNAc) that facilitates ETD identification and site localization of protein identifications by ∼16% (Fig. 1B) and reduced the large O-GlcNAc–modified peptides (10, 18, 19, 21). This approach en- amount of hydrophobic Tris[(1-benzyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl) methyl] abled identification of 141 O-GlcNAcylation sites in 64 proteins amine (TBTA) that remained from the CuAAC reaction (Fig. S1). from <15 μg of spindle and midbody proteins that were enriched from HeLa cells (18, 19). However, to date, this method has not Evaluation of MS Fragmentation Methods for Identifying CEPC- been used for complex tissues or global proteomic analyses. In Enriched Tagged O-GlcNAcylated Peptides. In a parallel effort we addition, there remain challenges in reducing contaminants from evaluated the capability of individual MS/MS methods (HCD, CID, the CuAAC reaction, which are detrimental to liquid chromatog- and ETD) for identifying tagged O-GlcNAc (AMT-GalNAz- raphy (LC)-MS measurements. GlcNAc modified) in 100 μg WT mouse cerebrocortical peptides In the study reported herein, we modified the CEPC protocol enriched using CEPC. Of the three fragmentation methods, only and used it to enrich O-GlcNAcylated peptides from tissue samples ETD provided information regarding the location of the modifi- obtained from the brain cortex of one WT mouse and one 3xTg-AD cation sites.