Richard Strasser1†
Georg Seifert1†
Monika S. Doblin2,3
Kim L. Johnson2,3
Colin Ruprecht4
Fabian Pfrengle4
Antony Bacic2,3
José M. Estevez5,6,7*- 1Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- 2La Trobe Institute for Agriculture & Food, Department of Animal, Plant & Soil Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
- 3The Sino-Australia Plant Cell Wall Research Centre, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
- 4Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- 5Fundación Instituto Leloir and Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 6Centro de Biotecnología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
- 7Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology (iBio), Santiago, Chile
Glycosylation is a fundamental co-translational and/or post-translational modification process where an attachment of sugars onto either proteins or lipids can alter their biological function, subcellular location and modulate the development and physiology of an organism. Glycosylation is not a template driven process and as such produces a vastly larger array of glycan structures through combinatorial use of enzymes and of repeated common scaffolds and as a consequence it provides a huge expansion of both the proteome and lipidome. While the essential role of N- and O-glycan modifications on mammalian glycoproteins is already well documented, we are just starting to decode their biological functions in plants. Although significant advances have been made in plant glycobiology in the last decades, there are still key challenges impeding progress in the field and, as such, holistic modern high throughput approaches may help to address these conceptual gaps. In this snapshot, we present an update of the most common O- and N-glycan structures present on plant glycoproteins as well as (1) the plant glycosyltransferases (GTs) and glycosyl hydrolases (GHs) responsible for their biosynthesis; (2) a summary of microorganism-derived GHs characterized to cleave specific glycosidic linkages; (3) a summary of the available tools ranging from monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), lectins to chemical probes for the detection of specific sugar moieties within these complex macromolecules; (4) selected examples of N- and O-glycoproteins as well as in their related GTs to illustrate the complexity on their mode of action in plant cell growth and stress responses processes, and finally (5) we present the carbohydrate microarray approach that could revolutionize the way in which unknown plant GTs and GHs are identified and their specificities characterized.
Introduction
In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, approx. 10–15% of the genome is devoted to construction, dynamic architecture, sensing functions, and metabolism of the plant cell wall (Cosgrove, 2005). The major components of plant cell walls include a complex composite of polysaccharide networks, lignin (secondary walls) together with minor amounts (generally less than 10%) of N- and/or O-glycosylated proteins (Somerville et al., 2004; Cosgrove, 2005; Albenne et al., 2009; Ellis et al., 2010; Lamport et al., 2011; Zielinska et al., 2012). Protein glycosylation, through co- and/or post-translational modification, results in addition of glycans (mono-/oligo-/polysaccharides and GPI anchors) that influence a protein’s stability, location and functional properties (Lerouge et al., 1998; Nagashima et al., 2018). While N-glycan synthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is relatively well conserved in eukaryotes, N-glycan processing and O-glycan biosynthesis in the Golgi apparatus (GA) are kingdom-specific and result in different oligosaccharide structures attached to glycoproteins in plants and mammals (Gomord et al., 2010). The prasinophytes situated at the base of the green plant lineage feature a much simpler set of N-glycan elaborations (Ulvskov et al., 2013) which may represent either the primordial eukaryotic N-glycosylation machinery or be the result of gene loss. Following initial processing steps in the ER, the N-glycans show differences in the maturation steps in the GA. Interestingly, plant N-glycans differ from their animal counterparts by the following: (1) the complete absence of sialic acid, (2) the core Fuc residues (where present) are α(1 → 3) rather than α(1 → 6)-linked to the reducing GlcNAc, and (3) the core β-mannosyl residue is often substituted with Xylβ(1 → 2) (Sturm, 1995). In contrast to N-glycosylation, the primary mechanism for O-glycosylation in plants is unique among eukaryotes and is via attachment to the hydroxyl group of the imino acid hydroxyproline (Hyp/O; in mammalian systems this type of glycosylation is to hydroxylysine) and less commonly to the hydroxyl group of serine [Ser; e.g., in extensins (EXTs) (Kieliszewski, 2001)]. This O-linked glycosylation determines the molecular properties and biological functions of members of the Hyp-rich glycoprotein (HRGP) superfamily and some secreted small peptides (e.g., CLE for CLAVATA3/Endosperm surrounding region). In addition, in plants there is a complete absence of GalNAc-Ser/Thr in secreted glycoproteins that is common in mammalian secreted glycoproteins and whilst there are also some other forms of O-glycosylation they are less common (e.g., Ser-O-GlcNAc on cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins). This overview should be read in conjunction with more focused reviews recently published by Seifert (2020) and Silva et al. (2020) to gain a comprehensive coverage of the structure, function and biosynthesis of arabinogalactan-proteins (AGPs).
N-Glycan Processing Pathway in Plants: Glycosyltransferases (GTs) and Glycosyl Hydrolases (GHs)
Asparagine (N)-linked glycosylation is a major co- and post-translational modification of proteins entering the secretory pathway. The initial step of N-glycosylation is the en bloc transfer of a preassembled oligosaccharide (Glc3Man9GlcNAc2) from a lipid carrier, dolicholpyrophosphate (PP-Dol) to selected Asn residues primarily in the canonical sequence Asn-X-Ser/Thr (X≠Pro) within nascent polypeptides, although some non-consensus sequences have been reported (Figure 1; Strasser, 2016). The lipid-linked oligosaccharide precursor is assembled in a stepwise manner by Asn-linked glycosylation (ALG) enzymes. The final step at the cytosolic side of the ER is catalyzed by ALG11 that transfers two consecutive α-(1 → 2) Man residues to the lipid-linked oligosaccharide. The resulting Man5GlcNAc2-PP-Dol is then transported across the ER membrane by a flippase-like protein and used as substrate in the ER lumen by the three mannosyltransferases ALG3, ALG9, ALG12 and the three glucosyltransferases (ALG6, ALG8, and ALG10) from Dol-P donors. The multi-subunit oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) complex catalyzes the transfer of the assembled oligosaccharide to the nascent polypeptide in the lumen of the ER with all subsequent steps restricted to the lumen of either the ER or GA. In the ER, the three Glc residues are sequentially trimmed by α-glucosidase I (GCSI) and II (GCSII) and a single α-(1 → 2)-Man residue is removed from the middle branch of the oligomannosidic N-glycan by the ER-α-mannosidase I (MNS3) to form the Man8GlcNAc2 structure (Liebminger et al., 2009). In the GA, the Golgi α-mannosidase I (MNS1/MNS2) cleaves off three additional Man residues and generates the acceptor substrate for N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GnTI) that initiates complex-type N-glycan biosynthesis (von Schaewen et al., 1993; Strasser et al., 1999a, b). The product of GnTI can be either further trimmed by Golgi α-mannosidase II (GMII) or serve as a substrate for β-(1 → 2)-xylosyltransferase (XylT). N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II (GnTII) transfers the second GlcNAc residue to complex-type N-glycans and core α-(1 → 3)-fucosyltransferase (FUT11/FUT12) attaches a α-(1 → 3)-linked Fuc to the innermost GlcNAc residue. The core fucosylation linkage is different from mammalian complex N-glycans which have a α-(1 → 6)-Fuc linked to the innermost GlcNAc residue (Strasser et al., 2004). The resulting structure (also termed GnGnXF) with two terminal GlcNAc residues, a β-(1 → 2)-linked Xyl and a core α-(1 → 3)-linked Fuc is the most prevalent complex-type N-glycan in plants (Wilson et al., 2001; Zeng et al., 2018). Truncated (paucimannosidic) N-glycans are generated in post-Golgi compartments either by the vacuolar β-N-acetylhexosaminidase 1 (HEXO1) or by HEXO3 which resides mainly in the plasma membrane/apoplast (Liebminger et al., 2011). The most elaborate complex-type N-glycans are generated in the trans Golgi by β-(1 → 3)-galactosyltransferase 1 (GALT1) and α-(1 → 4)-fucosyltransferase (FUT13) (Strasser et al., 2007b). The resulting Lewis A structure [α-L-Fucp-(1 → 4)- β-D-Galp-(1 → 3)- β-D-GlcpNAc-R] is ubiquitously found in plants (Fitchette-Lainé et al., 1997; Wilson et al., 2001; Zeng et al., 2018), but present only on a small number of secretory glycoproteins.
Figure 1. N-glycosylation and N-glycan maturation steps in plants. Several Asn-linked glycosylation (ALG) enzymes catalyze the assembly of the dolichol pyrophosphate (PP)-linked oligosaccharide in the cytosol and ER. The multi-subunit oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) complex transfers the oligosaccharide to accessible Asn-residues of nascent proteins. N-glycan processing enzymes: α-glucosidase I (GCSI), α-glucosidase II (GCSII), ER α-mannosidase I (MNS3), Golgi α-mannosidase I (MNS1/MNS2), β-(1 → 2)-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GnTI), β-(1 → 2)-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II (GnTII), β-(1 → 2)-xylosyltransferase, core α-(1 → 3)-fucosyltransferase (FUT11/FUT12), β-(1 → 3)-galactosyltransferase 1 (GALT1), and α-(1 → 4)-fucosyltransferase (FUT13). Terminal GlcNAc residues can be removed by β-hexosaminidases (HEXO1/3). GHs and GTs are listed in Tables 1, 2 while probes against N-glycans are listed in Table 3.
Impaired N-glycosylation due to either a defective OST complex or a blocked Glc removal from the transferred oligosaccharide results in lethality in Arabidopsis (Boisson et al., 2001; Gillmor et al., 2002; Koiwa et al., 2003; Lerouxel et al., 2005). Distinct oligomannosidic N-glycans in the ER are critical for ER quality control and ER-associated degradation (ERAD) (Jin et al., 2007; Hong et al., 2012; Hüttner et al., 2014). For example, the biogenesis of the Arabidopsis EF-Tu receptor (EFR) is dependent on Glc trimming and reglucosylation of oligomannosidic N-glycans and association with the lectin chaperones calnexin/calreticulin (Li et al., 2009; Lu et al., 2009). Mutant misfolded variants of BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 (BRI1) that expose a terminal α-(1 → 6)-linked Man on the oligomannosidic N-glycan are recognized by the lectin OS9 and sent to ERAD (Hong et al., 2008, 2012; Hüttner et al., 2012). Knockout of the three α-mannosidases (MNS1–MNS3) involved in trimming of oligomannosidic N-glycans to Man5GlcNAc2 causes a severe root development phenotype (Liebminger et al., 2009). GnTI-deficient mutants (cgl1) which completely lack complex N-glycans and display primarily Man5GlcNAc2, on the other hand, do not show any growth or morphological phenotype in Arabidopsis (von Schaewen et al., 1993). However, a salt sensitivity phenotype has been described for cgl1 and other Arabidopsis N-glycan processing mutants that completely lack complex N-glycans or specific modifications in the GA and there are links to a role in cell wall formation (Kang et al., 2008). The β - (1→4)-endoglucanase KORRIGAN1, one of the potential glycoprotein candidates playing a role in these processes, does not require complex N-glycans for its activity (Liebminger et al., 2013), but there are other unknown factors that require GnTI and affect KORRIGAN1 function (Rips et al., 2014). Notably, an Arabidopsis mutant lacking complex N-glycans due to a deficiency in the UDP-GlcNAc transporter 1 (UGNT1) does not show a salt sensitivity phenotype (Ebert et al., 2018). Apart from Arabidopsis, complex N-glycan deficient rice and Lotus japonicus mutants have been characterized which display severe defects in growth and reproduction (Fanata et al., 2013; Strasser, 2014; Harmoko et al., 2016; Pedersen et al., 2017). Collectively, while the oligomannosidic N-glycans play a role in ER-quality control, the potential suite of biological functions of complex-type and paucimannosidic N-glycans on glycoproteins is still largely unknown and the underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated for the described phenotypes in Arabidopsis and other plant species.
The biological function of the β-N-acetylhexosaminidase (HEXOs), especially HEXO3 acting at the plasma membrane/apoplast is unknown. In addition to HEXOs, it is possible that other GHs (Table 1) liberate monosaccharides from complex N-glycans either on a specific group of glycoproteins or in specific cell-types. Golgi-localized enzymes such as the recently characterized exo-β-(1 → 3)-galactosidases (Nibbering et al., 2020) may to some extent hydrolyze the Gal transferred by GALT1 directly in the Golgi (Table 2). Similarly, either Nicotiana benthamiana BGAL1 or another GH with β-(1 → 3/4)-galactosidase activity could modify Lewis A structures in the apoplast (Kriechbaum et al., 2020). Plant α-(1 → 3/4)-fucosidases that can cleave off Fuc residues from Lewis A structures have been identified in several plant species (Zeleny et al., 2006; Rahman et al., 2016; Kato et al., 2018). The only Arabidopsis GH29 α-(1 → 3/4)-fucosidase, AtFUC1, acts in the glycan degradation pathway in the vacuole and hydrolyses primarily the core α-(1 → 3)-linked Fuc. Consistent with the described substrate specificity, the AtFUC1-deficient mutant displayed slightly higher levels of Lewis A containing complex N-glycans. The degradation pathway for oligomannosidic and complex N-glycans in the vacuole involves several GHs whose substrate specificities are already well characterized (Léonard et al., 2009; Ishimizu, 2015; Kato et al., 2018). Apart from exo-glycosidases, plants have endo-glycosidases such as peptide-N-glycanase A (PNGase A) that is active on small glycopeptides and hydrolyzes complex N-glycans with core α-(1 → 3)-linked Fuc (Tretter et al., 1991; Altmann et al., 1998). Certain plant tissues such as the maize endosperm harbor an endo-glycanase (ENGase) that is active on oligomannosidic N-glycans and cleaves within the chitobiose core (Rademacher et al., 2008). Single GlcNAc residues or chitobiose at N-glycosylation sites have been detected on plant proteins (Ishimizu et al., 1999; Kim et al., 2013; Xu et al., 2016). How abundant those truncated glycans are and whether they have specific functions or represent intermediates of degradation pathways remains to be shown.
Table 1. Selected examples for carbohydrate GTs acting on N-glycans and O-glycans including type-II AGs on AGPs and EXTs from Arabidopsis thaliana or otherwise as indicated.
Table 2. Selected examples for carbohydrate GHs and lyases acting on N-glycans, O-glycans including type-II AGs on AGPs and EXTs.
Oligomannosidic N-glycans are commonly detected with the lectin concanavalin A (ConA) derived from the jack-bean Canavalia ensiformis (von Schaewen et al., 1993). Complex and truncated N-glycans carrying β-(1 → 2)-linked Xyl and/or a core α-(1 → 3)-linked Fuc residues are detected with antibodies against horseradish peroxidase (HRP) (Wilson et al., 1998; Strasser et al., 2004). The Lewis A structure is specifically recognized by the monoclonal antibody (mAb) JIM84. Bacterial endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase H (Endo H) cleaves within the unsubstituted chitobiose core to release oligomannosidic N-glycans from glycoproteins (Tarentino et al., 1974). In contrast to the PNGase A from almond, PNGase F from Flavobacterium meningosepticum is inhibited by the presence of core α-(1 → 3)-linked Fuc (Tretter et al., 1991) and therefore only of limited use for the deglycosylation of plant glycoproteins decorated with complex N-glycans.
O-Glycans, GTs and GHs of Plant Glycoproteins
O-linked glycosylation defines the molecular properties and biological function of the HRGP superfamily and some secreted small hormone peptides (e.g., CLE-like peptides). The HRGP superfamily is traditionally divided into three major subgroups: AGPs, EXTs including the Leucine-Rich eXtensins (LRXs), and the repetitive Pro-rich proteins (PRPs) (Seifert and Roberts, 2007; Ellis et al., 2010; Tan et al., 2012; Hijazi et al., 2014; Johnson et al., 2017). However, the HRGP superfamily is better understood as a spectrum of molecules ranging from the highly glycosylated AGPs to the minimally O-glycosylated PRPs. Two major types of O-glycans are attached to Hyp (O) in plant glycoproteins. The first type includes unbranched chains of up to five arabinose (Ara) units added to clusters of Hyp residues in EXTs (Marzol et al., 2018) and small CLE-like peptides (Ohyama et al., 2009; Shinohara and Matsubayashi, 2013). The second type are complex type II arabino-3,6-galactans (AGs) which are attached to non-contiguous Hyp residues (AO/SO/TO/VO) on AGPs and AGP-like proteins (Johnson et al., 2017). Finally, a single Gal is linked to Ser mostly in EXTs and EXT-related proteins. The Hyp contiguity hypothesis proposes that the addition of these two main types of O-glycan is controlled by “glycomotifs” in the HRGP protein sequence (Kieliszewski, 2001). This hypothesis predicts that short arabino-oligosaccharides are added to contiguous Hyp3–5 residues in EXTs, whereas complex AGs are assembled on clustered but non-contiguous Hyp residues in AGPs (Shpak et al., 1999; Tan et al., 2010). The only exception to this rule is CLE-like peptides (e.g., Tob/Tom-HypSys, PSY1, CLV3, and CLE2), in which non-contiguous Hyp residues are arabinosylated (Ohyama et al., 2009; Shinohara and Matsubayashi, 2013). The extent of glycosylation of PRPs remains unclear with low levels of Ara residues presumably O-linked to Hyp (Bernhardt and Tierney, 2000).
Arabinogalactan-Proteins-O-glycans and GTs
Arabinogalactan-proteins are complex cell surface proteoglycans with type II AG glycan moieties attached at non-contiguous Hyp residues consisting of a β-(1 → 3)-galactan backbone substituted at C(O)6 with side chains of β-(1 → 6)-galactan of variable length decorated further with Ara, and less frequently also with Fuc, Rha, (O-methyl)glucuronic acid (4-O-MeGlcA) and Xyl (Figure 2). AGPs have been implicated in a diverse array of plant growth and development processes including hormone signaling, cell expansion and division, embryogenesis of somatic cells, differentiation of xylem, reproduction and responses to abiotic stress (Seifert and Roberts, 2007; Ellis et al., 2010; Ma et al., 2018). Recently, it was shown that perturbing an AG-peptide (AGP21) in Arabidopsis triggers aberrant root hair development by altering expression of the homeodomain protein GLABRA 2 (GL2) expression in a BIN2 (a Type-II GSK3-like kinase)-dependent manner, similar to the phenotype observed in plants with defective brassinosteroid signaling (Borassi et al., 2020). These results imply an interesting parallel between plant AGPs and animal heparin sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs), which are important co-receptors in signaling pathways mediated by growth factors, including members of Wnt/Wingless, Hedgehog, transforming growth factor−β, and fibroblast growth factor family members (Lin, 2004). AGP4, AGP6, and AGP11 from Arabidopsis have been shown to be essential for reproduction, with AtAGP4 shown to play a critical role in synergid degeneration and prevention of more than one pollen tube being attracted to the embryo sac (Pereira et al., 2016). AG glycan structures have also been found to be involved in reproductive development in Torenia fournieri with a methyl-glucuronosyl arabinogalactan (AMOR) released from the ovule inducing the competency of the pollen tube to respond to ovular attractant peptides (Mizukami et al., 2016; Jiao et al., 2017). UPEX1/KNS4/GALT14, a galactosyltransferase (GALT) from Arabidopsis that generates the β-(1 → 3)-galactan backbone of type II AG, has been shown to be vital for normal pollen exine development as upex1/kns4/galt14 mutants display a collapsed pollen phenotype with reduced viability and fertility (Suzuki et al., 2017). The requirement for specific glycan structures on AGPs for Ca2+ signaling during development is supported by mutants in GlcAT14 members. AG glycans with reduced glucuronosylation were shown to have lower Ca2+ binding capacity (Lopez-Hernandez et al., 2020). Double/triple glcat mutants displayed developmental defects that could be suppressed by additional Ca+2 in growth media. Unique glycan structures on AGPs in seagrasses, that include a high content of terminating 4-O-methyl-GlcA residues, are proposed to strengthen Ca2+ binding and limit the effects of salt as an adaptation to the marine environment (Pfeifer et al., 2020). These few examples demonstrate the indispensable nature of AGPs to plant processes and the important function their O-glycan moieties play, although their mechanistic role continues to remain elusive and ill-defined as recently reviewed (Seifert, 2020).
Figure 2. Plant O-glycans. Schematic representation of an average carbohydrate structure of EXTs and AGPs with the GTs and GHs that have been characterized to date. Illustrated are the complex sugar side chains and the different linkages that are found in the sugar backbone. GHs and GTs are listed in Tables 1, 2 while probes recognizing specific epitopes in AGPs and EXTs are listed in Table 3. Number in brackets refer to GHs CAZY family. Please also see Silva et al. (2020) for GTs and GHs acting in AGP O-glycan processing.
In Arabidopsis, O-glycosylation of AGPs is initiated by a set of 8 Hyp-galactosyltransferases (Hyp-GALTs/HPGTs), which are members of the GT31 family1 (Lombard et al., 2014) and designated as GALT2-GALT6 and HPGT1-HPGT3 (also designated as GALT15-GALT17, respectively) (Basu et al., 2015a, b; Ogawa-Ohnishi and Matsubayashi, 2015) by different groups (Table 1 and Figure 2). These enzymes add a single Gal unit to Hyp residues. Other known GTs include β-(1 → 3)-GalTs also from the GT31 family such as GALT8, GALT9, KNS4/UPEX1/GALT14, (Qu et al., 2008; Li et al., 2012; Suzuki et al., 2017; Ruprecht et al., 2020) and β-(1 → 6)-galactosyltransferases such as GALT29A from GT29 (Geshi et al., 2013; Dilokpimol et al., 2014) although this activity is yet to be independently verified. Previously reported β-(1 → 6)-GalT activity for GALT31A (Geshi et al., 2013) has not been confirmed, rather it has been shown to possess β-(1 → 3)-GalT activity (Ruprecht et al., 2020). β-Glucuronosyltransferases including GlcAT14A-GlcAT14E from the GT14 family (Knoch et al., 2013; Dilokpimol et al., 2014; Lopez-Hernandez et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020) have been characterized as well as α-fucosyltransferases (FUT4, FUT6, and FUT7 from GT37) (Liang et al., 2013; Tryfona et al., 2014, Ruprecht et al., 2020) and a β-arabinosyltransferase (Reduced Arabinose Yariv1/RAY1 from GT77) (Gille et al., 2013). Two GlcA methyltransferases (AtAGM1 and AtAGM2) have also recently been identified (Temple et al., 2019). Collectively, this body of work highlights that robust data are required to confidently assign biochemical function(s) to GTs. Several other GTs involved in type II AG biosynthesis remain to be identified, including β-(1 → 6)-GalTs that elongate the side chains and other arabinosyltransferases, rhamnosyltransferases, and xylosyltransferases that decorate the non-reducing termini of the galactan chains as well as additional sugar modifying enzymes. Furthermore, structural characterization using NMR of artificial AGPs expressed in tobacco cell suspension cultures indicated kinks of β-(1 → 6)-linked Gal in the β-(1 → 3)-galactan backbone, suggesting the existence of additional GTs catalyzing the synthesis of this linkage (Tan et al., 2004, 2010). Please also see a recent review by Silva et al. (2020) that has reviewed the GTs acting in AGP O-glycan processing.
Variability of Type II AG O-Glycans
Compared to the relatively high degree of conservation of N-glycan structures, O-glycans attached to AGPs display a considerable degree of variation on every level (Figure 3 and references there in). There are variations between different species and tissues and in the same cell type at different stages of development. The common structural feature of type II AG that are O-linked to isolated Hyp residues on AGPs is a backbone of β-(1 → 3) Gal that contains β-(1 → 6) linked Gal side chains of variable length, although there are examples of β-(1 → 6) linked Gal backbones (Raju and Davidson, 1994; Dong and Fang, 2001). In some reports a β-(1 → 6) linked Gal is further β-(1 → 3) galactosylated forming a kink in the backbone (Churms et al., 1983; Bacic et al., 1987). Mostly however, the Gal side chains are modified by α-(1 → 3) linked L-Araf (Tryfona et al., 2010, 2012 and references therein). Additionally, the side branches can contain β-(1 → 6) linked GlcA or 4-O-MeGlcA. The L-Araf side groups are sometimes extended by one or two α-(1 → 3) linked L-Araf residues and terminated by either α-(1 → 3) linked L-Araf or α-(1 → 2) linked L-Fuc. In some cases, the L-Fuc is not the terminal sugar but further modified by β-(1 → 3) linked D-Xyl. While L-Araf incorporated in plant cell wall carbohydrates is predominantly found in its furanose form there have also been reports on L-Arap β-(1 → 3) linked to Araf or Galp as terminal sugars. Likewise, GlcAp and 4-O-methyl D-GlcAp are often found as terminal modifications of the galactan backbone but sometimes GlcA was found decorated by α-(1 → 4) linked L-Rha. In other cases, another β-(1 → 4) linked D-GlcA followed and terminated by β-(1 → 4) linked 4-O-methyl D-GlcAp were linked to this sugar. Another modification of D-GlcAp was α-(1 → 4) linked L-Rha as the first sugar of an extended heteropolymer resembling rhamnogalacturonan I. Besides this staggering multitude of structures attributed to AGP-linked type II AG, there exists variability in the degree of substitution of individual Hyp residues as well as the sizes of the individual glycans. This was demonstrated for artificial AGP-like fluorescent proteins that showed considerable variations in apparent molecular weight between different organs (Estevez et al., 2006). Moreover, the cell-type specific variation between type II AG structures is elegantly revealed by AGP-glycan specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) (Table 3).
Figure 3. Arabinogalactan-protein glycan variation. Five structures of type II glycans found on AGPs demonstrating common motifs and variations. (A) This relatively small glycan was produced on an artificial AGP recombinantly expressed in tobacco cell cultures by Tan et al. (2004). Note the β-(1 → 6) kink in the β-(1 → 3) galactan backbone. (B) This structure approximates the model described for AGP glycans purified from A. thaliana leaves (Tryfona et al., 2012). Note that the actual size of many of the glycans is probably much bigger than the structure displayed here. In a later study by the same group, the terminal modification of L-Fuc by D-Xyl was described (Tryfona et al., 2014). (C) Using the same tools of enzymatic degradation and mass spectrometry, this group also described the glycan-structure of wheat flour AGP (Tryfona et al., 2010). Again, we show an approximation of their model that should accommodate large variations in glycan size. A noteworthy feature of this glycan is the occurrence of terminally linked L-Arap. (D) AGP-glycans of the see grass Zostera marina are particularly rich in 4-Me-GlcAp (Pfeifer et al., 2020). (E) The partial glycan structure of the type II AG linked to an AGP named as APAP1 that is linked to both rhamnogalacturonan 1 (RG1) and arabinoxylan (AX) (Tan et al., 2013). Legend for sugar symbols is as per Figure 2.
Table 3. Toolkit Abs/probes available to characterize N- and O-glycans.
Arabinogalactan-Protein-Glycans Probes, Abs, and GHs
Characterization of AGP glycan structures is difficult due to the enormous diversity of protein backbones, the difficulty in extracting and purifying individual AGPs and the heterogeneity in their glycan moieties (Tan et al., 2012; Johnson et al., 2017). NMR techniques require significant amounts of relatively homogeneous samples and are therefore only rarely used on natural AGP glycans; for example, on the AGP glycans from pistils of Nicotiana alata (Gane et al., 1995). The most successful approaches include performing (i) linkage analyses of glycans in combination with partial chemical degradation of the polysaccharides (Pfeifer et al., 2020) and (ii) partial enzymatic degradation (GHs; Table 2) to analyze resulting oligosaccharides using carbohydrate gel electrophoresis (PACE) and MS fragmentation techniques (Tryfona et al., 2010, 2012). For specific detection of AGPs, β-Glc Yariv phenylglucoside reagent (1,3,5-tri-(4-β-D-glucopyranosyl-oxyphenylazo)-2,4,6-trihydroxybenzene) that recognizes and binds to β-(1 → 3)-Gal-linked oligosaccharides, six residues or longer, is used. In addition, numerous mAbs against AGP glycan epitopes are available (Table 3). A group of 36 AGP mAbs recognize a core set of Gal-β-(1 → 6)-Gal epitopes that are further sub-divided into three groups defined by side branches permitted and forbidden for mAb binding (Figure 2; Pattathil et al., 2010; Ruprecht et al., 2017). In addition, some mAbs recognize different epitopes, namely a β-(1 → 3)-trigalactosyl glycan (JIM133), a β-(1 → 6)-trigalactosyl glycan (JIM14) or a β-(1 → 6)-Gal branched β-(1 → 3)-trigalactosyl glycan (JIM16) while the terminal β-(1 → 6)-glucuronosyl modification is recognized by LM2. Furthermore, eel lectin binds to the terminal α-(1 → 2)-L-Fuc residue modification on AGPs. The binding epitopes of several AGP-specific mAbs remain to be characterized (e.g., JIM4, JIM8, JIM13, MAC207, and LM14) (Table 3).
An as yet incomplete list of GHs acting on various linkages in type II AGs are mainly known from various microbial sources (Table 3) and are used for their structural characterization. However, plant endogenous AGP-specific GHs have also been described. Two family GH43 exo-β-(1 → 3)-galactanases from Arabidopsis were shown to be required for controlling the apparent abundance of AGPs and their loss of function resulted in a sugar-conditional root expansion phenotype characteristic of many primary cell wall-defective mutants (Nibbering et al., 2020). Arabidopsis also has three close homologs encoding family 79 GHs. One member of this family named AtGUS2 was identified in a gel filtration fraction that showed O-β-glucuronidase activity in vitro (Eudes et al., 2008). A T-DNA insertion in this locus displayed abnormally short hypocotyls and overexpression of AtGUS2 enhanced both hypocotyl length and root length with purified AGPs displaying lower terminal-GlcA content. Finally, four Arabidopsis loci encode family 27 GHs named β-L-ARAPASE (APSE), and α-GALACTOSIDASE 1-3 (AGAL1-3) (Imaizumi et al., 2017). Although the majority of L-Ara found in plant carbohydrates is in its furanose form some examples of L-arabinopyranose (Arap) exist, one example being found in type II AGs (Tryfona et al., 2010). It was suggested that APSE and the AGALs act on these residues (Imaizumi et al., 2017), and apse agal3 mutants showed decreased β-L-arabinopyranosidase activity and increased levels of β-L-Arap, compared to wild type. Apart from a decrease in hypocotyl length, the apse agal3 mutants appeared phenotypically normal. Finally, a promiscuous α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylosidase belonging to family GH3 has been purified and cloned from radish (Kotake et al., 2006]. However, since the Ara and Xyl residues exist in various carbohydrates it is presently unknown whether any of the fifteen Arabidopsis GH3 enzymes act as AGP-specific α-L-arabinofuranosidases. In addition, please see Silva et al. (2020) for GHs, both endogenous and heterologous, acting on type-II AG glycans of AGPs.
Extensins-Glycans, GTs, and GHs
Extensins are characterized by repetitive Ser-Hyp3–5 repeats, where the contiguous Hyp residues are substituted with up to 4–5 units of L-Araf with the following structure Hyp-O-(4 → 1)-β-L-Araf-(2 → 1)-β-L-Araf-(2 → 1)-β-L-Araf-(3 → 1)-α-L-term Araf; the linkage of the fifth Ara residue is not yet resolved (Velasquez et al., 2011; Møller et al., 2017), and the Ser is substituted with D-Gal as Ser-O-(1 → 3)-α-Galp (Saito et al., 2014) (Figure 2). EXTs and secreted signaling peptides require the conversion of specific peptidyl-proline residues to trans-4-Hyp by prolyl-4-hydroxylase (P4H) enzymes (Table 1). P4H enzymes are 2-oxoglutarate (2OG) dioxygenases that catalyze the formation of trans-4-Hyp from peptidyl-Pro (Koski et al., 2007, 2009). In root cells, P4H5 is the main P4H that initiates the hydroxylation of some Pro residues in EXTs, whereas P4H2 and P4H13 complete the hydroxylation on these contiguous Pro residues (Velasquez et al., 2011, 2015b). The first Araf is added by Hyp-O-β-arabinosyltransferase 1-3 (HPAT1-HPAT3), which belong to the GT95 family (Ogawa-Ohnishi et al., 2013). Reduced Residual Arabinose 1–3 (RRA1-RRA3) enzymes of the GT77 family are thought to transfer the second Araf (Egelund et al., 2007; Velasquez et al., 2011), while the third residue addition is catalyzed by Xyloglucanase113 (XEG113), which also belongs to the GT77 family (Gille et al., 2009). XEG113 was first identified in a screen of mutagenized Arabidopsis plants subjected to growth in liquid media in the presence of a xyloglucanase with xeg113 plants exhibiting more elongated hypocotyls than WT, providing genetic evidence that extensin arabinosylation is important for cell elongation (Gille et al., 2009). Finally, Extensin Arabinose Deficient (ExAD) transfers the fourth Araf residue with a α-(1 → 3) linkage. ExAD belongs to clade-E of the inverting GT47 family (Møller et al., 2017) (Table 1). The arabinosyltransferase that adds the fifth and final Ara unit has not yet been identified (Velasquez et al., 2011). On the other hand, O-arabinosylation with β-linked-L-arabinofuranosyltransferases at Hyp also takes place in the short signaling peptides of the CLE-like family using identical linkages/stereochemistry as used for the innermost three Araf residues found in the EXTs (Ito et al., 2006; Ohyama et al., 2009; Matsuzaki et al., 2010), suggesting that similar P4Hs and GTs might participate in these post-translational modifications. A single Serine-galactosyltransferase (SGT1/SerGT1) adds Gal to Ser in the repeated Ser-Hyp3–5 motif in EXTs (Saito et al., 2014). SerGT1 is the first example of a GT in the context of protein glycosylation with type-I membrane protein topology (i.e., N-terminal catalytic domain within the Golgi lumen) with no homology to known GTs, indicating that it is a novel plant-specific GT of the GT96 family (Table 1). Several EXT-specific mAbs are used to detect EXT epitopes but these epitopes remain to be structurally characterized (e.g., JIM11, JIM12, JIM19, JIM20, LM1) (see Table 3; Rydahl et al., 2018 and references therein).
Several GHs from different bacterial sources have been described that hydrolyze specific linkages within O-glycans of EXTs (Table 2). The GH127 enzyme from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria XeHypBA1 was described as a β-L-(1 → 2)-arabinofuranosidase (Nakamura et al., 2018) while two GH121 members, one from Bifidobacterium bifidum HypBA2 and XeHypBA2, were shown to hydrolyze the β-L-Araf-(2 → 1) linkages (Fujita et al., 2011, 2014; Nakamura et al., 2018). Finally, an α-L-(1 → 3)-arabinofuranosidase XeHypAA is able to hydrolyze β-L-Araf-(3 → 1)-α-L-Araf (Nakamura et al., 2018) (Table 2 and Figure 2). It is unclear if endogenous β-arabinofuranosidases are encoded by plant genomes, and if so whether they are secreted into the apoplast to regulate the length of EXTs O-glycans.
Decoding EXTs and Their O-Glycans Functions
It is already known that O-glycans increase HRGP solubility, resistance to proteolytic degradation and thermal stability (Shpak et al., 2001; Kieliszewski et al., 2011; Lamport et al., 2011; Seifert, 2020). EXTs are able to form, at least in vitro, a tridimensional covalent network through diTyr-linkages mediated by EXT peroxidases between individual EXT molecules and also via self-recognition and alignment of hydrophilic O-glycosylated Ser-(Hyp)3–4 repeats and hydrophobic peptide-cross-linking modules (Cannon et al., 2008). Thus, the ordered EXT monomer assembly in plant cell walls would involve a zipper-like endwise association via cross-linking at the ends of the molecules (Kieliszewski et al., 2011; Lamport et al., 2011). Recently, modeling experiments suggested that classical EXTs would be able to form a putative triple helix structure by lateral staggered alignment (Cannon et al., 2008) and diTyr cross-linking, similar to that present in collagen (Velasquez et al., 2015b; Marzol et al., 2018). It is also proposed that EXTs interact with pectins by a simple acid-base reaction forming a supramolecular ionic structure in the nascent cell wall (Valentin et al., 2010), which would serve as a framework for further cell wall deposition (Cannon et al., 2008; Lamport et al., 2011). In addition, covalent EXT-pectin cross-links were also suggested (Nuñez et al., 2009). However, it is unclear how EXT monomers are secreted and assembled into the glyco-network and how EXT and related glycoproteins-pectin interactions are controlled in a coordinated way during new cell wall formation.
Several mutants in O-glycosylation GTs of EXTs and related proteins (e.g., LRXs) have similarities to root hair-defective growth phenotypes (Velasquez et al., 2011; 2015b) and EXT content and their O-glycosylation levels were correlated with cotton fiber cell elongation (Guo et al., 2019), highlighting that O-glycans in EXTs affect EXT function during plant cell expansion. Furthermore, an in vitro study has revealed that both Ser-O-galactosylation and Hyp-O-arabinosylation determine the rate of EXT crosslinking and hence the efficiency of EXT network formation (Chen et al., 2015). Thus, correct arabinosylation of EXTs is essential for their in vivo functions. In addition, some of these mutants (e.g., rra2 and xeg113) showed enhanced susceptibility for specific root pathogens (Castilleux et al., 2020). The known roles of EXTs in cell wall assembly, cell shape and growth raises the question to the function of each individual EXT molecule (Hall and Cannon, 2002; Cannon et al., 2008; Velasquez et al., 2011). Although the Arabidopsis genome encodes several EXTs, so far only a single EXT mutant rsh (for root shoot hypocotyl-defective)/ext3) have a nearly lethal phenotype (Cannon et al., 2008). This finding suggests either the high redundancy or masked functions of EXTs in plant development, although their role in root hairs, pollen tubes and root growth are clear exceptions to this rule. Several EXT mutants (ext6-7/12-14/18) (Velasquez et al., 2011) and lrx1/2 mutants have aberrant root hair morphologies (Baumberger et al., 2001, 2003a, b; Ringli, 2010) and prp3 (Bernhardt and Tierney, 2000) display short root hairs. Characterization of multiple mutants for pollen LRXs (lrx8/9/10/11) indicates they are key components for proper polar growth as sentinels of cell wall integrity in these rapidly expanding cells (Fabrice et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2017; Sede et al., 2018; Herger et al., 2019) while the triple mutant lrx3/4/5 showed defects in cell expansion in root cells (Draeger et al., 2015), possibly mediated by abnormal vacuolar expansion (Dünser et al., 2019). Recently, a mechanism of action for LRXs was proposed based on LRX8 and LRX9 binding in the apoplast to the Rapid Alkalinization Factor 4-19 (RALF4 and RALF19) peptides as well as to the extracellular domains of some transmembrane receptors such as CrRLK1Ls (e.g., ANX1,2 and BUDS1,2) (Ge et al., 2017; Mecchia et al., 2017). In a similar manner, the extracellular LRX3/4/5-RALF22/23 together with CrRLK1L FERONIA (FER) are able to coordinate growth under salt conditions (Zhao et al., 2018, 2020) and LRX1/5-RALF1-FER in shoot and root growth (Dünser et al., 2019; Herger et al., 2020). It has been proposed that LRXs work together with CrRLK1Ls and RALF peptides to monitor the plant cell wall integrity status during cell growth (Ge et al., 2017; Mecchia et al., 2017; Dünser et al., 2019; Herger et al., 2020). Although the structural basis for the interaction between LRXs and RALFs peptides was recently established (Moussu et al., 2020), it is unclear how the O-glycans in the EXT domain of LRXs affects these protein-protein interactions. Since the EXT domain is variable among LRXs both in terms of length and motif (Baumberger et al., 2003a, b; Borassi et al., 2016), it is proposed that it has adapted to the specific cell wall architecture of the numerous tissues where they are located as putative cell wall integrity sensors (Baumberger et al., 2003a, b; Marzol et al., 2018; Sede et al., 2018; Herger et al., 2019).
Chemical Synthesis, Glycan Arrays and Technological Challenges
The tremendous heterogeneity of plant cell wall glycans such as the O-glycans in AGPs make the identification of the exact molecular structures that serve either as acceptors for GTs, substrates for GHs or epitopes for mAbs very challenging. There are basically two options to procure suitable oligosaccharide samples for biochemical assays used in GT functional studies. One possibility is purification of oligosaccharides from digests of natural polysaccharides or glycoproteins, which can provide a large number of oligosaccharides in acceptable time, but oftentimes with compromised purity and in limited quantities (Tan et al., 2012). The second possibility is chemical synthesis, which gives access to significant amounts of well-defined and pure oligosaccharides but is very time consuming (Kinnaert et al., 2017; Pfrengle, 2017). Automated glycan assembly (AGA) can significantly accelerate the process of chemical synthesis for a number a glycan classes (Seeberger, 2015). In AGA, protected monosaccharide building blocks are coupled in a stepwise manner to a linker-functionalized Merrifield resin, in a computer-controlled and automated manner. While many different complex oligosaccharides have been synthesized by AGA, only recently has it begun to be explored for synthesizing plant glycans, including AGP O-glycans (Bartetzko and Pfrengle, 2019). Chemically synthesized glycans as well as natural polysaccharides and isolated oligosaccharides can be printed as glycan arrays to obtain high-throughput platforms for analyzing plant cell wall-related enzymes and molecular probes such as mAbs (Møller et al., 2008; Pedersen et al., 2012). A recently developed glycan array equipped with chemically synthesized plant cell wall glycans, including many AGP glycan related substrates, has proven useful for the rapid characterization of a large number of cell wall glycan-directed mAbs (Ruprecht et al., 2017). The same glycan array has also aided in identifying acceptor substrates for GTs involved in AGP glycan biosynthesis such as GalT31A and FUT7 (Figure 4; Ruprecht et al., 2020). By extension, this technology has the potential to reveal the biochemical function of novel GTs that act in the O-glycosylation pathway of plant HRGPs and other glycoproteins.
Figure 4. Glycan array assay for GT characterization. Glass slides equipped with plant cell wall-related oligosaccharides are incubated with azido-functionalized sugar nucleotides and GT candidates expressed in, for example human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells. Any transferred monosaccharide is visualized by azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction with a fluorescent dye to determine reactive acceptors (reprinted from Ruprecht et al., 2020).
Perspectives and Future Challenges in Plant Glycobiology
Major developments in nuclease-based gene editing, quantitative transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics are now enabling high throughput approaches to explore plant protein and lipid glycosylation through analyzing and targeting enzymes involved in glycosylation processes. Although there has been significant progress in plant glycobiology, there are still many remaining fundamental questions to be addressed. Here, we attempt to highlight some selected aspects that are key to accelerating progress in this field:
• In vivo N- and O-glycan mapping. The chemical reporter strategy known as bio-orthogonal click chemistry has arisen as a powerful methodology to investigate the dynamics and functions of non-genetically encoded biomolecules such as sialylated (Chang et al., 2009; Laughlin and Bertozzi, 2009; Mbua et al., 2013), fucosylated (Hsu et al., 2007; Laughlin and Bertozzi, 2009; Besanceney-Webler et al., 2011), and mucin-type O-linked glycans (Laughlin and Bertozzi, 2009; Baskin et al., 2010) in live cells and model organisms (Prescher and Bertozzi, 2005; Grammel and Hang, 2013). This approach relies on the labeling of specific sugars by feeding cells with a synthetic monosaccharide analog carrying a chemical reporter that is then reacted with a probe (e.g., a fluorophore suitable for fluorescent microscopy imaging) in living systems to locate/visualize the incorporated reporter. Despite the fast-growing number of examples of this potent method in animal cells, reports describing its use in plant biology are surprisingly few (Anderson et al., 2012; Dumont et al., 2016; Zhu et al., 2016; Zhu and Chen, 2017). In part, this is due to the capacity of these probes to penetrate the cell wall barrier and, in part, due to the limited diversity of sugar analogs available to replace the endogenous sugars that need to be transported into the plant cell, and incorporated into glycan structures by GTs in a similar manner. Other new technologies are being developed to directly perform imaging of single glycan molecules that are isolated by mass-selective, soft-landing electrospray ion beam deposition and imaged by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (Wu et al., 2020). This generates glycan structures at the single-molecule and single cell levels to directly relate how molecular structure correlates with properties – a step forward toward cracking the “sugar code.”
• GT activity characterization by glycan arrays. The use of glycan arrays equipped with oligosaccharide acceptors, in combination with expressed GT/GH candidates, may significantly accelerate the identification and characterization of further GTs/GHs responsible for plant glycosylation/modulation in the future. To enable rapid progress in this area, intensive research on the chemical and/or enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharide acceptors and sugar nucleotide donors as well as on high-yielding production of active GT candidates in different expression systems is required. In this direction, a JBEI (The Joint BioEnergy Institute) GT Collection with almost 500 GTs from Arabidopsis and rice were cloned in-frame into Gateway technology compatible vectors to readily enable downstream applications (Lao et al., 2014). Either more collective resources from our laboratories (a major barrier for individual groups when research funding is scarce) or commercial intervention (which would require the same importance placed on plant biology as medical research where such resources are provided) are necessary to drive functional genomic approaches in plant glycobiology.
• Structural diversity in N- and O-glycans present in plant glycoproteins. Although some progress has been made recently, the precise N-glycan composition of individual native plant glycoproteins from different cells or tissues is only partially known (Xu et al., 2016; Zeng et al., 2018). Future efforts will aim to obtain a more comprehensive picture on N-glycan composition within specific glycoproteins to identify distinct N-glycan structures that are causative for a specific phenotype. In the same vein, determining functional roles for individual HRGP O-glycoproteins has been hampered by our failure to directly characterize each of these complex O-glycan structures. Only few studies have been able to purify AGPs and analyze their glycan structural variations in detail (Tan et al., 2004; Tryfona et al., 2010, 2012, 2014; Pfeifer et al., 2020). Biochemical characterization needs to be linked to detailed functional studies (e.g., site-directed mutagenesis). In general, functional validation is experimentally much more complex as well as time-consuming compared to the biochemical quantitation of the O-glycosylation levels. Furthermore, small changes in O-glycosylation in AGPs/FLAs and in EXTs can result in either activation or inactivation of their in vivo functions and can have an effect on their subcellular localization targeting (Velasquez et al., 2015b; Xue et al., 2017; Borassi et al., 2020; Seifert, 2020), so the functional relevance of each event cannot directly be inferred from large-scale quantitative analysis. A dual convergent approach between both enzymology/biochemistry and genetics is required to address this important aspect of plant glycoprotein structural diversity at the single cell level.
• Overcome functional genetic redundancy of plant glycoproteins. Addressing genetic redundancy and functional overlap might be achieved by using multiplex CRISPR-CAS9/genome editing/gene knock-out technology. Some recent reports have used this approach to overcome functional redundancy in AGPs (Moreira et al., 2020) and in GTs (e.g., GLCATs) acting on AGPs (Zhang et al., 2020). This might be extended to investigate their function in other plant species.
• Plant glycoproteome-interactome. Finding new proteins associated with plant glycoproteins, plant GTs and GHs will expand our knowledge on the regulatory aspects of plant glycobiology. New techniques such as proximity labeling (e.g., APEX, TurboID, etc.) together with the existing tools for detecting in vivo protein-protein interactions (e.g., BiFC, TriFC, FRET, etc.) will allow us to improve our plant glycobiology interactome inventory. Deeper integration of the N-and O-glycosylation pathway into the broader context of plant cell biology and systems biology is necessary. We envisage the development of a broad atlas of glycomes across plant tissues and cell types to integrate protein glycosylation features into plant gene and protein databases.
Author Contributions
KJ, MD, CR, and FP analyzed the references, wrote the manuscript, and helped on the figures design. RS, GS, AB, and JE analyzed the references, supervised the project, and wrote the manuscript. All authors have read the manuscript and have approved this submission.
Funding
This work was supported by grants from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P31920-B22 to RS and P32332-B to GS, the German Research Council (DFG) PF850/1-1 and PF850/7-1 to FP, the Australia Research Council to the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls (CE1101007) to AB, MD, and KJ, and ANPCyT (PICT2016-0132 and PICT2017-0066), Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (1200010), and Instituto Milenio iBio – Iniciativa Científica Milenio, MINECON to JE.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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Keywords: Arabidopsis, glycosyltransferases, plant protein glycosylation, glycan arrays, O-glycosylation, N-glycosylation, glycosyl hydrolases, glycan functions
Citation: Strasser R, Seifert G, Doblin MS, Johnson KL, Ruprecht C, Pfrengle F, Bacic A and Estevez JM (2021) Cracking the “Sugar Code”: A Snapshot of N- and O-Glycosylation Pathways and Functions in Plants Cells. Front. Plant Sci. 12:640919. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.640919
Received: 12 December 2020; Accepted: 22 January 2021;
Published: 19 February 2021.
Edited by:
Elison B. Blancaflor, Noble Research Institute, LLC, United StatesReviewed by:
Peter Ulvskov, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkAlison W. Roberts, University of Rhode Island, United States
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*Correspondence: José M. Estevez, jestevez@leloir.org.ar
†These authors share first authorship