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A mechanism that may support this is the modification of hydroxyamino acid rich sequences of nucleocytoplasmic proteins with O-fucose. O-fucosylation of possibly hundreds of proteins is mediated by a single highly conserved nucleocytoplasmic enzyme. Deletion of the SPY O-fucosyltransferase gene is tolerated but inhibits parasite proliferation in fibroblasts and their accumulation in mouse brains. A prior ectopic expression study suggested that O-fucose is required to detect proteins considered essential. To distinguish whether the SPY requirement was specific to the method or for protein expression per se, GPN1, an RNA polymerase chaperone, was epitope-tagged at its endogenous locus in both normal and SPY\u0394 strains. GPN1 was shown to be substantially and quantitatively O-fucosylated and exhibited a modest 24% reduction in level in SPY\u0394 cells. Proteomic analysis of its interactome indicated that fucosylation did not affect its association with RNA polymerase subunits. 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