ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The Nuclear Frontier: Expanding the Horizons of Protein Glycosylation
Glycosylation is the most common post-translational modification (PTM), decorating two thirds of secreted human proteins. Often dysregulated in disease, the specific attached glycan influences folding and function. Extended glycosylation is supposed to exclusively occur in the secretory pathway. I propose that this model needs to be revised. My preliminary results—both computational and experimental—question this long-standing dogma and hint at a new kind of PTM: extended glycosylation in mammalian nuclei. I propose a research project that exhaustively determines the presence, biosynthesis, transport, and function of extended nuclear glycosylation as a new group of PTMs. This ambitious…
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