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Here we investigated two strategies using artificial protein-protein interactions to couple the protein secretion and glycosylation machinery in E. coli. A novel model acceptor protein based on the human prosaposin was developed. While the proposed designs were ineffective under the conditions tested, we discovered that fusion proteins of the Campylobacter jejuni PglB were able to improve the expression of challenging acceptor proteins without sacrificing glycosylation efficiency. 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