TY - JOUR A1 - Freund, Patricia A1 - Kerenyi, Marc A1 - Hager, Matthias A1 - Wagner, Tanja A1 - Wingelhofer, Bettina A1 - Ha, Pham A1 - Elabd, Mohamed A1 - Han, Xiaonan A1 - Valent, Peter A1 - Gouilleux, Fabrice A1 - Sexl, Veronika A1 - Krämer, Oliver Holger A1 - Groner, Bernd A1 - Moriggl, Richard T1 - O-GlcNAcylation of STAT5 controls tyrosine phosphorylation and oncogenic transcription in STAT5-dependent malignancies T2 - Leukemia N2 - The signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) regulates differentiation, survival, proliferation and transformation of hematopoietic cells. Upon cytokine stimulation, STAT5 tyrosine phosphorylation (pYSTAT5) is transient, while in diverse neoplastic cells persistent overexpression and enhanced pYSTAT5 are frequently found. Post-translational modifications might contribute to enhanced STAT5 activation in the context of transformation, but the strength and duration of pYSTAT5 are incompletely understood. We found that O-GlcNAcylation and tyrosine phosphorylation act together to trigger pYSTAT5 levels and oncogenic transcription in neoplastic cells. The expression of a mutated hyperactive gain-of-function (GOF) STAT5 without O-GlcNAcylation resulted in decreased tyrosine phosphorylation, oligomerization and transactivation potential and complete loss of oncogenic transformation capacity. The lack of O-GlcNAcylation diminished phospho-ERK and phospho-AKT levels. Our data show that O-GlcNAcylation of STAT5 is an important process that contributes to oncogenic transcription through enhanced STAT5 tyrosine phosphorylation and oligomerization driving myeloid transformation. O-GlcNAcylation of STAT5 could be required for nutrient sensing and metabolism of cancer cells. Y1 - 2017 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44706 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-447067 SN - 1476-5551 SN - 0887-6924 N1 - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ VL - 31 IS - 10 SP - 2132 EP - 2142 PB - Springer Nature CY - London ER -