Glycosylation Changes Triggered by the Differentiation of Monocytic THP-1 Cell Line into Macrophages

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• 作者：Clément P. Delannoy ; Yoann Rombouts ; Sophie Groux-Degroote ; Stephanie Holst ; Bernadette Coddeville ; Anne Harduin-Lepers ; Manfred Wuhrer ; Elisabeth Elass-Rochard ; Yann Guérardel
• 刊名：Journal of Proteome Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 6, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 页码：156-169
• 全文大小：741K
• ISSN：1535-3907

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The human acute monocytic leukemia cell line THP-1 is widely used as an in vitro phagocytic cell model because it exhibits several immune properties similar to native monocyte-derived macrophages. In this study, we investigated the alteration of N- and O-linked glycans as well as glycosphingolipids, during THP-1 differentiation, combining mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, and quantitative real-time PCR. Mass spectrometry revealed that macrophage differentiation led to a marked upregulation of expression of GM3 ganglioside as well as an increase in complex-type structures, particularly triantennary glycans, occurring at the expense of high-mannose N-glycans. Moreover, we observed a slight decrease in the proportion of multifucosylated N-glycans and α2,6-sialylation. The uncovered changes in glycosylation correlated with variations of gene expression of relevant glycosyltransferases and glycosidases including sialyltransferases, β-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases, fucosyltransferases, and neuraminidase. Furthermore, using flow cytometry and antibodies directed against glycan structures, we confirmed that the alteration of glycosylation occurs at the cell surface of THP-1 macrophage-like cells. Altogether, we established that macrophagic maturation of THP-1 induces dramatic modifications of the surface glycosylation pattern that may result in differential interaction of monocytic and macrophagic THP-1 with immune or bacterial lectins.