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* Departments of Molecular Biology and Molecular and Experimental Medicine and
DNA Microarray Core Facility, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037;
Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; and
Scripps-Palo Alto Research Center Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Differentiation and activation of lymphocytes are documented to result in changes in glycosylation associated with biologically important consequences. In this report, we have systematically examined global changes in N-linked glycosylation following activation of murine CD4 T cells, CD8 T cells, and B cells by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry profiling, and investigated the molecular basis for those changes by assessing alterations in the expression of glycan transferase genes. Surprisingly, the major change observed in activated CD4 and CD8 T cells was a dramatic reduction of sialylated biantennary N-glycans carrying the terminal NeuGc
2-6Gal sequence, and a corresponding increase in glycans carrying the Gal1-3Gal sequence. This change was accounted for by a decrease in the expression of the sialyltransferase ST6Gal I, and an increase in the expression of the galactosyltransferase, 1-3GalT. Conversely, in B cells no change in terminal sialylation of N-linked glycans was evident, and the expression of the same two glycosyltransferases was increased and decreased, respectively. The results have implications for differential recognition of activated and unactivated T cells by dendritic cells and B cells expressing glycan-binding proteins that recognize terminal sequences of N-linked glycans.
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