O-Fucosylation plays crucial roles in various essential biological events. Alongside the well-established O-fucosylation of epidermal growth factor-like repeats by protein O-fucosyltransferase 1 (POFUT1) and thrombospondin type 1 repeats by POFUT2, we recently identified a type of O-fucosylation on the elastin microfibril interface (EMI) domain of Multimerin-1 (MMRN1). Here, using AlphaFold2 screens, co-immunoprecipitation, enzymatic assays combined with mass spectrometric analysis and CRISPR-Cas9 knockouts, we demonstrate that FUT10 and FUT11, originally annotated in UniProt as α1,3-fucosyltransferases, are actually POFUTs responsible for modifying EMI domains; thus, we renamed them as POFUT3 and POFUT4, respectively. Like POFUT1/2, POFUT3/4 function in the endoplasmic reticulum, require folded domain structures for modification and participate in a non-canonical endoplasmic reticulum quality control pathway for EMI domain-containing protein secretion. This finding expands the O-fucosylation repertoire and provides an entry point for further exploration in this emerging field of O-fucosylation.
FUT10 and FUT11 are protein O-fucosyltransferases that modify protein EMI domains.
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作者:Hao Huilin, Yuan Youxi, Ito Atsuko, Eberand Benjamin M, Tjondro Harry, Cielesh Michelle, Norris Nicholas, Moreno Cesar L, Maxwell Joshua W C, Neely G Gregory, Payne Richard J, Kebede Melkam A, Urbauer Ramona J Bieber, Passam Freda H, Larance Mark, Haltiwanger Robert S
期刊: | Nature Chemical Biology | 影响因子: | 13.700 |
时间: | 2025 | 起止号: | 2025 Apr;21(4):598-610 |
doi: | 10.1038/s41589-024-01815-x |
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