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. 2021 Mar 12;1:620382. doi: 10.3389/fragi.2020.620382

TABLE 4.

Altered levels of protein O-GlcNAcylation, OGT, and OGA levels, as well as OGA activity in human disease samples.

Specimen OGT and OGA levels and activities Protein O-GlcNAcylation Ref
AD postmortem brains ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation in detergent insoluble fractions observed using ELISA and HGAC85/39 antibodies Griffith and Schmitz (1995)
AD postmortem brains ↓ OGA protein levels and activities, unchanged OGT levels ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation observed using western blot analyses with the CTD110.6 antibody Förster et al. (2014)
AD postmortem brains ↓ protein O-GlcNAcylation observed using radioimmuno-dot-blot analyses with RL2 antibody Liu et al. (2004)
AD postmortem brains ↓ protein O-GlcNAcylation observed using western blots with RL2 Pinho et al. (2019)
AD postmortem brains ↓ O-GlcNAcylation of 12 peptides, and ↑ O-GlcNAcylation of 119 peptides, using quantitative proteomics Wang et al. (2017)
PD postmortem brains ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels in PD stage IV patients using western blot with the CTD110.6 antibody Wani et al. (2017b)
TLE patient hippocampal and cortical samples ↓ protein O-GlcNAcylation observed by western blot using CTD110.6 antibody Sanchez et al. (2019)
Myocardial biopsies from heart failure patients ↑ ncOGT, mOGT, sOGT, and ncOGA protein
↑ OGT mRNA
↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels by western blot with CTD110.6 antibody (no statistics since n = 3 each), in aortic stenosis left ventricular tissues, compared to patients with nonischemic areas with coronary artery disease Lunde et al. (2012)
Apical cores removed prior to LVAD implantation ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels by ∼20% as observed by click chemistry from apical cores removed during LVAD implantation in heart failure patients compared to patients without heart failure Dassanayaka et al. (2017)
Diabetes whole blood samples ↓ OGT and OGA mRNA Coomer and Essop (2014)
Endothelial cells in patients with T2DM ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels by immunofluorescence with RL2, from freshly isolated endothelial cells from forearm vein J-wire biopsy from patients with T2DM compared to non-diabetic controls Masaki et al. (2020)
Skeletal vastus lateralis muscle biopsy ↑ OGT in diabetic patients by western blot analyses with RL2 Shi et al. (2018)
Liver biopsy ↓ OGT and ↑ OGA protein levels ↓ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels from patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis by western blots with the RL2 antibody Zhang et al. (2019)
Colon tissues of IBD patients ↓ OGT ↓ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease patients using immunohistochemistry with RL2 Zhao et al. (2018)
Human lung and prostate cancers ↑OGT ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels in lung and prostate cancers using immunohistochemistry with RL2 antibodies compared to adjacent tissues Mi et al. (2011)
Human prostate cancers ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels in prostate cancers with poorer prognosis as measured by immunohistochemistry using the CTD110.6 antibody Kamigaito et al. (2014)
Human colon tumors ↑OGT ↑ protein O-GlcNAcylation levels in colon tumors vs. controls as measured with western blots with RL2 Olivier-Van Stichelen et al. (2014)