Proteins on the cell surface are frequently glycosylated, and they are essential for cells. Surface glycoproteins regulate nearly every extracellular event, but compared with global analysis of proteins, comprehensive and site-specific analysis of surface glycoproteins is much more challenging and dramatically understudied. Here, combining metabolic labeling, click-chemistry and enzymatic reactions, and mass spectrometry-based proteomics, we globally characterized surface glycoproteins from eight popular types of human cells. This integrative and effective method allowed for the identification of 2172 N-glycosylation sites and 1047 surface glycoproteins. The distribution and occurrence of N-glycosylation sites were systematically investigated, and protein secondary structures were found to have a dramatic influence on glycosylation sites. As expected, most sites are located on disordered regions. For the sites with the motif N-!P-C, about one-third of them are located on helix structures, while those with the motif N-!P-S/T prefer strand structures. There is almost no correlation between the number of glycosylation sites and protein length, but the number of sites corresponds well with the frequencies of the motif. Quantification results reveal that besides cell-specific glycoproteins, the uniqueness of each cell type further arises from differential expression of surface glycoproteins. The current research indicates that multiple surface glycoproteins including their abundances need to be considered for cell classification rather than a single cluster of differentiation (CD) protein normally used in conventional methods. These results provide valuable information to the *
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