Detection of N-glycolyl-neuraminic acid-containing glycolipids in human skin.
Front Immunol
; 14: 1291292, 2023.
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ABSTRACT
Humans lack the enzyme that produces the sialic acid N-glycolyl neuraminic acid (Neu5Gc), but several lines of evidence have shown that Neu5Gc can be taken up by mammalian food sources and replace the common human sialic acid N-acetyl neuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) in glycans. Cancer tissue has been shown to have increased the presence of Neu5Gc and Neu5Gc-containing glycolipids such as the ganglioside GM3, which have been proposed as tumor-specific antigens for antibody treatment. Here, we show that a previously described antibody against Neu5Gc-GM3 is binding to Neu5GC-containing gangliosides and is strongly staining different cancer tissues. However, we also found a strong intracellular staining of keratinocytes of healthy skin. We confirmed this staining on freshly isolated keratinocytes by flow cytometry and detected Neu5Gc by mass spectrometry. This finding implicates that non-human Neu5Gc can be incorporated into gangliosides in human skin, and this should be taken into consideration when targeting Neu5Gc-containing gangliosides for cancer immunotherapy.
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Neoplasias
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Humans
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Front Immunol
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2023
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