Bifunctional Monosaccharides Preferentially Localize to Nuclear Subcompartments
Barahtjan, P.; Iglesias-Artola, J. M.; Boehlig, K.; Lohmann, A.; Nadler, A.
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Recent progress in glycan research has been driven by widespread implementations of metabolic oligosaccharide engineering. Complementing existing approaches, we here introduce bifunctional, UV-crosslinkable and clickable N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylgalactosamine analogues, which enable direct visualization of the intracellular probe distribution as well as distinguishing monomeric and macromolecule-bound fractions. Using this feature, we find that monomeric N-acetylmonosaccharides partition into RNA-rich nuclear compartments such as nuclear speckles and nucleoli. This suggests the existence of spatially separated N-acetylmonosccharide pools within the nucleoplasm. Taken together, bifunctional N-acetylmonosaccharide probes are a powerful discovery tool for probing intracellular localization of monosaccharides and glycosylated macromolecules.
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