Structural- and Site-specific N-glycosylation Characterization of COVID-19 Virus Spike with StrucGP

Spike (S) protein plays a key role in COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and host-cell entry. Previous studies have systematically analyzed site-specific glycans compositions of S protein. Here, we further provide structure-clear N-glycosylation of S protein at site-specific level by using our recently developed structure- and site-specific N-glycoproteomics sequencing algorithm StrucGP. In addition to the common N-glycans as detected in previous studies, many uncommon glycosylation structures such as LacdiNAc structures, Lewis structures, Mannose 6-Phosphate (M6P) residues and bisected core structures were unambiguously mapped at a total of 20 glycosites in the S protein trimer and protomer. These data further supports the glycosylation structural-functional investigations of COVID-19 virus Spike.