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A comprehensive landscape of human organ N-glycoproteome

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: N-glycosylation, as a common post-translational modification with complex structures, plays key roles in protein folding, cellular recognition and signaling pathways. State-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based N-glycoproteomics has enabled deep N-glycoproteome characterization of various human organs. However, a comprehensive N-glycoproteome landscape of human organs remains lacking. Here we present a systematic human N-glycoproteome atlas spanning 74 subjects across 18 organs/tissues with identification of 57,884 N-glycan structure-level and 23,863 monosaccharide composition-level intact N-glycopeptides on 7543 N-glycosites of 5062 N-glycoproteins. Tissue-specific N-glycosylation patterns and crosstalk between sialylation and fucosylation are observed. An organ classifier using multiple machine learning models on our N-glycopeptide dataset is trained. This atlas, complemented by a unified multi-software analysis framework, provides insights into organ-specific glycobiology and establishes a fundamental reference for understanding physiological N-glycosylation characteristics of human tissues.

Source: Nature Communications

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74631-7