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Jang L, Kim A, Park CS, Moon C, Kim M, Kim J, Yang S, Jang JY, Jeong CM, Lee HS, Park J, Kim K, Byeon H, Kim HH. Fucosylation and galactosylation in N-glycans of bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase and their role in its enzymatic activity. Arch Biochem Biophys 2024; 758:110069. [PMID: 38914216 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2024.110069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Revised: 06/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024]
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Bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase (biALP), a membrane-bound plasma metalloenzyme, maintains intestinal homeostasis, regulates duodenal surface pH, and protects against infections caused by pathogenic bacteria. The N-glycans of biALP regulate its enzymatic activity, protein folding, and thermostability, but their structures are not fully reported. In this study, the structures and quantities of the N-glycans of biALP were analyzed by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-high energy collision dissociation-tandem mass spectrometry. In total, 48 N-glycans were identified and quantified, comprising high-mannose [6 N-glycans, 33.1 % (sum of relative quantities of each N-glycan)], hybrid (6, 11.9 %), and complex (36, 55.0 %) structures [bi- (13, 26.1 %), tri- (16, 21.5 %), and tetra-antennary (7, 7.4 %)]. These included bisecting N-acetylglucosamine (33, 56.6 %), mono-to tri-fucosylation (32, 53.3 %), mono-to tri-α-galactosylation (16, 20.7 %), and mono-to tetra-β-galactosylation (36, 58.5 %). No sialylation was identified. N-glycans with non-bisecting GlcNAc (9, 10.3 %), non-fucosylation (10, 13.6 %), non-α-galactosylation (26, 46.2 %), and non-β-galactosylation (6, 8.4 %) were also identified. The activity (100 %) of biALP was reduced to 37.3 ± 0.2 % (by de-fucosylation), 32.7 ± 2.9 % (by de-α-galactosylation), and 0.2 ± 0.2 % (by de-β-galactosylation), comparable to inhibition by 10-4 to 101 mM EDTA, a biALP inhibitor. These results indicate that fucosylated and galactosylated N-glycans, especially β-galactosylation, affected the activity of biALP. This study is the first to identify 48 diverse N-glycan structures and quantities of bovine as well as human intestinal ALP and to demonstrate the importance of the role of fucosylation and galactosylation for maintaining the activity of biALP.
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- Leeseul Jang
- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Sciences, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea; Department of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Sciences, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea.
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Skurska E, Szulc B, Kreczko K, Olczak M. Mutations in the SLC35C1 gene, contributing to significant differences in fucosylation patterns, may underlie the diverse phenotypic manifestations observed in leukocyte adhesion deficiency type II patients. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2024; 173:106602. [PMID: 38843991 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2024.106602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 05/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/10/2024]
Abstract
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are a large family of genetic diseases resulting from defects in the synthesis of glycans and the attachment of glycans to macromolecules. The CDG known as leukocyte adhesion deficiency II (LAD II) is an autosomal, recessive disorder caused by mutations in the SLC35C1 gene, encoding a transmembrane protein of the Golgi apparatus, involved in GDP-fucose transport from the cytosol to the Golgi lumen. In this study, a cell-based model was used as a tool to characterize the molecular background of a therapy based on a fucose-supplemented diet. Such therapies have been successfully introduced in some (but not all) known cases of LAD II. In this study, the effect of external fucose was analyzed in SLC35C1 KO cell lines, expressing 11 mutated SLC35C1 proteins, previously discovered in patients with an LAD II diagnosis. For many of them, the cis-Golgi subcellular localization was affected; however, some proteins were localized properly. Additionally, although mutated SLC35C1 caused different α-1-6 core fucosylation of N-glycans, which explains previously described, more or less severe disorder symptoms, the differences practically disappeared after external fucose supplementation, with fucosylation restored to the level observed in healthy cells. This indicates that additional fucose in the diet should improve the condition of all patients. Thus, for patients diagnosed with LAD II we advocate careful analysis of particular mutations using the SLC35C1-KO cell line-based model, to predict changes in localization and fucosylation rate. We also recommend searching for additional mutations in the human genome of LAD II patients, when fucose supplementation does not influence patients' state.
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- E Skurska
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
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Comparative studies on the substrate specificity and defucosylation activity of three α-l-fucosidases using synthetic fucosylated glycopeptides and glycoproteins as substrates. Bioorg Med Chem 2021; 42:116243. [PMID: 34126284 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Revised: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Core fucosylation is the attachment of an α-1,6-fucose moiety to the innermost N-acetyl glucosamine (GlcNAc) in N-glycans in mammalian systems. It plays a pivotal role in modulating the structural and biological functions of glycoproteins including therapeutic antibodies. Yet, few α-l-fucosidases appear to be capable of removing core fucose from intact glycoproteins. This paper describes a comparative study of the substrate specificity and relative activity of the human α-l-fucosidase (FucA1) and two bacterial α-l-fucosidases, the AlfC from Lactobacillus casei and the BfFuc from Bacteroides fragilis. This study was enabled by the synthesis of an array of structurally well-defined core-fucosylated substrates, including core-fucosylated N-glycopeptides and a few antibody glycoforms. It was found that AlfC and BfFuc could not remove core fucose from intact full-length N-glycopeptides or N-glycoproteins but could hydrolyze only the truncated Fucα1,6GlcNAc-peptide substrates. In contrast, the human α-l-fucosidase (FucA1) showed low activity on truncated Fucα1,6GlcNAc substrates but was able to remove core fucose from intact and full-length core-fucosylated N-glycopeptides and N-glycoproteins. In addition, it was found that FucA1 was the only α-l-fucosidase that showed low but apparent activity to remove core fucose from intact IgG antibodies. The ability of FucA1 to defucosylate intact monoclonal antibodies reveals an opportunity to evolve the human α-l-fucosidase for direct enzymatic defucosylation of therapeutic antibodies to improve their antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity.
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Weiss M, Ott D, Karagiannis T, Weishaupt M, Niemietz M, Eller S, Lott M, Martínez-Orts M, Canales Á, Razi N, Paulson JC, Unverzagt C. Efficient Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of N-Glycans with a β1,4-Galactosylated Bisecting GlcNAc Motif. Chembiochem 2020; 21:3212-3215. [PMID: 32597008 PMCID: PMC7723014 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In human serum immunoglobulin G (IgG), a rare modification of biantennary complex N‐glycans lead to a β1,4‐galactosylated bisecting GlcNAc branch. We found that the bisecting GlcNAc on a biantennary core‐fucosylated N‐glycan was enzymatically galactosylated under stringent reaction conditions. Further optimizations led to an efficient enzymatic approach to this particular modification for biantennary substrates. Notably, tri‐ and tetra‐antennary complex N‐glycans were not converted by bovine galactosyltransferase. An N‐glycan with a galactosylated bisecting GlcNAc was linked to a lanthanide binding tag. The pseudo‐contact shifts (PCS) obtained from the corresponding Dy‐complex were used to calculate the conformational preferences of the rare N‐glycan. Besides two extended conformations only a single folded conformation was found.
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- Michael Weiss
- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Dpto. Química Orgánica I, Fac. Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avd. Complutense s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Dpto. Química Orgánica I, Fac. Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avd. Complutense s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Depts. of Molecular Medicine, and Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Depts. of Molecular Medicine, and Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- University of Bayreuth, Bioorganic Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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Achilli S, Monteiro JT, Serna S, Mayer-Lambertz S, Thépaut M, Le Roy A, Ebel C, Reichardt NC, Lepenies B, Fieschi F, Vivès C. TETRALEC, Artificial Tetrameric Lectins: A Tool to Screen Ligand and Pathogen Interactions. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E5290. [PMID: 32722514 PMCID: PMC7432041 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21155290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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C-type lectin receptor (CLR)/carbohydrate recognition occurs through low affinity interactions. Nature compensates that weakness by multivalent display of the lectin carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) at the cell surface. Mimicking these low affinity interactions in vitro is essential to better understand CLR/glycan interactions. Here, we present a strategy to create a generic construct with a tetrameric presentation of the CRD for any CLR, termed TETRALEC. We applied our strategy to a naturally occurring tetrameric CRD, DC-SIGNR, and compared the TETRALEC ligand binding capacity by synthetic N- and O-glycans microarray using three different DC-SIGNR constructs i) its natural tetrameric counterpart, ii) the monomeric CRD and iii) a dimeric Fc-CRD fusion. DC-SIGNR TETRALEC construct showed a similar binding profile to that of its natural tetrameric counterpart. However, differences observed in recognition of low affinity ligands underlined the importance of the CRD spatial arrangement. Moreover, we further extended the applications of DC-SIGNR TETRALEC to evaluate CLR/pathogens interactions. This construct was able to recognize heat-killed Candida albicans by flow cytometry and confocal microscopy, a so far unreported specificity of DC-SIGNR. In summary, the newly developed DC-SIGNR TETRALEC tool proved to be useful to unravel novel CLR/glycan interactions, an approach which could be applied to other CLRs.
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- Silvia Achilli
- Institut de Biologie Structurale, CEA, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (S.A.); (M.T.); (A.L.R.); (C.E.); (F.F.)
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- Immunology Unit & Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30559 Hannover, Germany; (J.T.M.); (S.M.-L.); (B.L.)
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- Glycotechnology Laboratory, Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), CIBER-BBN, Paseo Miramón 182, 20014 San Sebastian, Spain; (S.S.); (N.-C.R.)
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- Immunology Unit & Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30559 Hannover, Germany; (J.T.M.); (S.M.-L.); (B.L.)
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, CEA, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (S.A.); (M.T.); (A.L.R.); (C.E.); (F.F.)
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, CEA, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (S.A.); (M.T.); (A.L.R.); (C.E.); (F.F.)
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, CEA, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (S.A.); (M.T.); (A.L.R.); (C.E.); (F.F.)
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- Glycotechnology Laboratory, Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), CIBER-BBN, Paseo Miramón 182, 20014 San Sebastian, Spain; (S.S.); (N.-C.R.)
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- Immunology Unit & Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30559 Hannover, Germany; (J.T.M.); (S.M.-L.); (B.L.)
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, CEA, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (S.A.); (M.T.); (A.L.R.); (C.E.); (F.F.)
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, CEA, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (S.A.); (M.T.); (A.L.R.); (C.E.); (F.F.)
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Vong K, Yamamoto T, Tanaka K. Artificial Glycoproteins as a Scaffold for Targeted Drug Therapy. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2020; 16:e1906890. [PMID: 32068952 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201906890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 12/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Akin to a cellular "fingerprint," the glycocalyx is a glycan-enriched cellular coating that plays a crucial role in mediating cell-to-cell interactions. To gain a better understanding of the factors that govern in vivo recognition, artificial glycoproteins were initially created to probe changes made to the accumulation and biodistribution of specific glycan assemblies through biomimicry. As a result, the organ-specific accumulation for a variety of glycoproteins decorated with simple and/or complex glycans was identified. Additionally, binding trends with regard to cancer cell selectivity were also investigated. To exploit the knowledge gained from these studies, numerous groups thus became engaged in developing targeted drug methodologies based on the use of artificial glycoproteins. This has either been done through adopting the glycoprotein scaffold as a drug carrier, or to directly glycosylate therapeutic proteins/enzymes to localize their biological activity. The principle aim of this Review is to present the foundational research that has driven artificial glycoprotein-based targeting and subsequent adaptations with potential therapeutic applications.
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- Kenward Vong
- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan
- Biofunctional Chemistry Laboratory, A. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya Street, Kazan, 420008, Russian Federation
- GlycoTargeting Research Laboratory, RIKEN Baton Zone Program, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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Zhang W, Meredith RJ, Oliver AG, Carmichael I, Serianni AS. Glycosidic linkage, N-acetyl side-chain, and other structural properties of methyl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-D-mannopyranoside monohydrate and related compounds. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C-STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY 2020; 76:287-297. [PMID: 32132287 DOI: 10.1107/s2053229620001515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 02/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The crystal structure of methyl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-β-D-glycopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-D-mannopyranoside monohydrate, C15H27NO11·H2O, was determined and its structural properties compared to those in a set of mono- and disaccharides bearing N-acetyl side-chains in βGlcNAc aldohexopyranosyl rings. Valence bond angles and torsion angles in these side chains are relatively uniform, but C-N (amide) and C-O (carbonyl) bond lengths depend on the state of hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl O atom and N-H hydrogen. Relative to N-acetyl side chains devoid of hydrogen bonding, those in which the carbonyl O atom serves as a hydrogen-bond acceptor display elongated C-O and shortened C-N bonds. This behavior is reproduced by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, indicating that the relative contributions of amide resonance forms to experimental C-N and C-O bond lengths depend on the solvation state, leading to expectations that activation barriers to amide cis-trans isomerization will depend on the polarity of the environment. DFT calculations also revealed useful predictive information on the dependencies of inter-residue hydrogen bonding and some bond angles in or proximal to β-(1→4) O-glycosidic linkages on linkage torsion angles φ and ψ. Hypersurfaces correlating φ and ψ with the linkage C-O-C bond angle and total energy are sufficiently similar to render the former a proxy of the latter.
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- Wenhui Zhang
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA
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- Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA
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Structural basis for substrate specificity and catalysis of α1,6-fucosyltransferase. Nat Commun 2020; 11:973. [PMID: 32080177 PMCID: PMC7033129 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14794-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2020] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Core-fucosylation is an essential biological modification by which a fucose is transferred from GDP-β-L-fucose to the innermost N-acetylglucosamine residue of N-linked glycans. A single human enzyme α1,6-fucosyltransferase (FUT8) is the only enzyme responsible for this modification via the addition of an α-1,6-linked fucose to N-glycans. To date, the details of substrate recognition and catalysis by FUT8 remain unknown. Here, we report the crystal structure of FUT8 complexed with GDP and a biantennary complex N-glycan (G0), which provides insight into both substrate recognition and catalysis. FUT8 follows an SN2 mechanism and deploys a series of loops and an α-helix which all contribute in forming the binding site. An exosite, formed by one of these loops and an SH3 domain, is responsible for the recognition of branched sugars, making contacts specifically to the α1,3 arm GlcNAc, a feature required for catalysis. This information serves as a framework for inhibitor design, and helps to assess its potential as a therapeutic target.
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Luber T, Niemietz M, Karagiannis T, Mönnich M, Ott D, Perkams L, Walcher J, Berger L, Pischl M, Weishaupt M, Eller S, Hoffman J, Unverzagt C. A Single Route to Mammalian N-Glycans Substituted with Core Fucose and Bisecting GlcNAc. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:14543-14549. [PMID: 30144245 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201807742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The occurrence of α1,6-linked core fucose on the N-glycans of mammalian glycoproteins is involved in tumor progression and reduces the bioactivity of antibodies in antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC). Since core-fucosylated N-glycans are difficult to isolate from natural sources, only chemical or enzymatic synthesis can provide the desired compounds for biological studies. A general drawback of chemical α-fucosylation is that the chemical assembly of α1,6-linked fucosides is not stereospecific. A robust and general method for the α-selective fucosylation of acceptors with primary hydroxy groups in α/β ratios exceeding 99:1 was developed. The high selectivities result from the interplay of an optimized protecting group pattern of the fucosyl donors in combination with the activation principle and the reaction conditions. Selective deprotection yielded versatile azides of all mammalian complex-type core-fucosylated N-glycans with 2-4 antennae and optional bisecting GlcNAc.
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- Thomas Luber
- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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Luber T, Niemietz M, Karagiannis T, Mönnich M, Ott D, Perkams L, Walcher J, Berger L, Pischl M, Weishaupt M, Eller S, Hoffman J, Unverzagt C. A Single Route to Mammalian N-Glycans Substituted with Core Fucose and Bisecting GlcNAc. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201807742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Thomas Luber
- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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Pang X, Li H, Guan F, Li X. Multiple Roles of Glycans in Hematological Malignancies. Front Oncol 2018; 8:364. [PMID: 30237983 PMCID: PMC6135871 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2018.00364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The three types of blood cells (red blood cells for carrying oxygen, white blood cells for immune protection, and platelets for wound clotting) arise from hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in the adult bone marrow, and function in physiological regulation and communication with local microenvironments to maintain systemic homeostasis. Hematological malignancies are relatively uncommon malignant disorders derived from the two major blood cell lineages: myeloid (leukemia) and lymphoid (lymphoma). Malignant clones lose their regulatory mechanisms, resulting in production of a large number of dysfunctional cells and destruction of normal hematopoiesis. Glycans are one of the four major types of essential biological macromolecules, along with nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids. Major glycan subgroups are N-glycans, O-glycans, glycosaminoglycans, and glycosphingolipids. Aberrant expression of glycan structures, resulting from dysregulation of glycan-related genes, is associated with cancer development and progression in terms of cell signaling and communication, tumor cell dissociation and invasion, cell-matrix interactions, tumor angiogenesis, immune modulation, and metastasis formation. Aberrant glycan expression occurs in most hematological malignancies, notably acute myeloid leukemia, myeloproliferative neoplasms, and multiple myeloma, etc. Here, we review recent research advances regarding aberrant glycans, their related genes, and their roles in hematological malignancies. Our improved understanding of the mechanisms that underlie aberrant patterns of glycosylation will lead to development of novel, more effective therapeutic approaches targeted to hematological malignancies.
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- Xingchen Pang
- School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.,Wuxi Medical School, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Zhao Q, Jia TZ, Cao QC, Tian F, Ying WT. A Crude 1-DNJ Extract from Home Made Bombyx Batryticatus Inhibits Diabetic Cardiomyopathy-Associated Fibrosis in db/db Mice and Reduces Protein N-Glycosylation Levels. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19061699. [PMID: 29880742 PMCID: PMC6032278 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19061699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 05/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
The traditional Chinese drug Bombyx Batryticatus (BB), which is also named the white stiff silkworm, has been widely used in Chinese clinics for thousands of years. It is famous for its antispasmodic and blood circulation-promoting effects. Cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, interstitial cell hyperplasia, and myocardial fibrosis are closely related to the N-glycosylation of key proteins. To examine the alterations of N-glycosylation that occur in diabetic myocardium during the early stage of the disease, and to clarify the therapeutic effect of 1-Deoxynojirimycin (1-DNJ) extracted from BB, we used the db/db (diabetic) mouse model and an approach based on hydrophilic chromatography solid-phase extraction integrated with an liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (LC-MS) identification strategy to perform a site-specific N-glycosylation analysis of left ventricular cardiomyocyte proteins. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs), hydroxyproline, connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), and other serum biochemical indicators were measured with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). In addition, the α-1,6-fucosylation of N-glycans was profiled with lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) lectin blots and fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labelled lectin affinity histochemistry. The results indicated that 1-DNJ administration obviously downregulated myocardium protein N-glycosylation in db/db mice. The expression levels of serum indicators and fibrosis-related cytokines were reduced significantly by 1-DNJ in a dose-dependent manner. The glycan α-1,6-fucosylation level of the db/db mouse myocardium was elevated, and the intervention effect of 1-DNJ administration on N-glycan α-1,6-fucosylation was significant. To verify this result, the well-known transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)/Smad2/3 pathway was selected, and core α-1,6-fucosylated TGF-β receptor II (TGFR-βII) was analysed semi-quantitatively with western blotting. The result supported the conclusions obtained from LCA lectin affinity histochemistry and lectin blot analysis. The expression level of α-1,6-fucosyltransferase (FUT8) mRNA was also detected, and the results showed that 1-DNJ administration did not cause obvious inhibitory effects on FUT8 expression. Therefore, the mechanism of 1-DNJ for relieving diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM)-associated fibrosis can be concluded as the inhibition of N-acetylglucosamine (N-GlcNAc) formation and the reduction of substrate concentration.
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- Qing Zhao
- The Key Laboratory of Chinese Materia Medica Processing Principle Analysis of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical College of Liaoning Traditional Chinese Medicine University, Chinese Materia Medica Processing Engineering Technology Research Center of Liaoning Province, Dalian 110060, China.
- Chinese Materia Medica Department, Traditional Chinese Medicine College of Hebei University, Baoding 071000, China.
- Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing 102206, China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Chinese Materia Medica Processing Principle Analysis of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical College of Liaoning Traditional Chinese Medicine University, Chinese Materia Medica Processing Engineering Technology Research Center of Liaoning Province, Dalian 110060, China.
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin 300308, China.
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- Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing 102206, China.
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- Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing 102206, China.
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Pearce OMT. Cancer glycan epitopes: biosynthesis, structure and function. Glycobiology 2018; 28:670-696. [DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwy023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- Oliver M T Pearce
- Centre for Cancer & Inflammation, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, UK
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Novel Mechanism of the Pericyte-Myofibroblast Transition in Renal Interstitial Fibrosis: Core Fucosylation Regulation. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16914. [PMID: 29209018 PMCID: PMC5717002 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17193-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Pericytes have been identified as a major source of myofibroblasts in renal interstitial fibrosis (RIF). The overactivation of several signaling pathways, mainly the TGF-β and PDGF pathways, initiates the pericyte-myofibroblast transition during RIF. Key receptors in these two pathways have been shown to be modified by fucosyltransferase 8 (FUT8), the enzyme that catalyzes core fucosylation. This study postulated that core fucosylation might play an important role in regulating the pericyte transition in RIF. The data showed that core fucosylation increased with the extent of RIF in patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN). Similarly, core fucosylation of pericytes increased in both a unilateral ureteral occlusion (UUO) mouse model and an in vitro model of pericyte transition. Inhibition of core fucosylation by adenoviral-mediated FUT8 shRNA in vivo and FUT8 siRNA in vitro significantly reduced pericyte transition and RIF. In addition, the activation of both the TGF-β/Smad and PDGF/ERK pathways was blocked by core fucosylation inhibition. In conclusion, core fucosylation may regulate the pericyte transition in RIF by modifying both the TGF-β/Smad and PDGF/ERK pathways. Glycosylation might be a novel "hub" target to prevent RIF.
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Li C, Zhu S, Ma C, Wang LX. Designer α1,6-Fucosidase Mutants Enable Direct Core Fucosylation of Intact N-Glycopeptides and N-Glycoproteins. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:15074-15087. [PMID: 28990779 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Core fucosylation of N-glycoproteins plays a crucial role in modulating the biological functions of glycoproteins. Yet, the synthesis of structurally well-defined, core-fucosylated glycoproteins remains a challenging task due to the complexity in multistep chemical synthesis or the inability of the biosynthetic α1,6-fucosyltransferase (FUT8) to directly fucosylate full-size mature N-glycans in a chemoenzymatic approach. We report in this paper the design and generation of potential α1,6-fucosynthase and fucoligase for direct core fucosylation of intact N-glycoproteins. We found that mutation at the nucleophilic residue (D200) did not provide a typical glycosynthase from this bacterial enzyme, but several mutants with mutation at the general acid/base residue E274 of the Lactobacillus casei α1,6-fucosidase, including E274A, E274S, and E274G, acted as efficient glycoligases that could fucosylate a wide variety of complex N-glycopeptides and intact glycoproteins by using α-fucosyl fluoride as a simple donor substrate. Studies on the substrate specificity revealed that the α1,6-fucosidase mutants could introduce an α1,6-fucose moiety specifically at the Asn-linked GlcNAc moiety not only to GlcNAc-peptide but also to high-mannose and complex-type N-glycans in the context of N-glycopeptides, N-glycoproteins, and intact antibodies. This discovery opens a new avenue to a wide variety of homogeneous, core-fucosylated N-glycopeptides and N-glycoproteins that are hitherto difficult to obtain for structural and functional studies.
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- Chao Li
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland , 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland , 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland , 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland , 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Nagae M, Mishra SK, Hanashima S, Tateno H, Yamaguchi Y. Distinct roles for each N-glycan branch interacting with mannose-binding type Jacalin-related lectins Orysata and Calsepa. Glycobiology 2017; 27:1120-1133. [DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwx081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2017] [Accepted: 09/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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- Masamichi Nagae
- Structural Glycobiology Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN Global Research Cluster, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Structural Glycobiology Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN Global Research Cluster, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka University, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- Structural Glycobiology Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN Global Research Cluster, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Gimeno A, Reichardt NC, Cañada FJ, Perkams L, Unverzagt C, Jiménez-Barbero J, Ardá A. NMR and Molecular Recognition of N-Glycans: Remote Modifications of the Saccharide Chain Modulate Binding Features. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:1104-1112. [PMID: 28192664 PMCID: PMC5435455 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b01116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Glycans
play a key role as recognition elements in the communication
of cells and other organisms. Thus, the analysis of carbohydrate–protein
interactions has gained significant importance. In particular, nuclear
magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques are considered powerful tools
to detect relevant features in the interaction between sugars and
their natural receptors. Here, we present the results obtained in
the study on the molecular recognition of different mannose-containing
glycans by Pisum sativum agglutinin. NMR experiments
supported by Corcema-ST analysis, isothermal titration calorimetry
(ITC) experiments, and molecular dynamics (MD) protocols have been
successfully applied to unmask important binding features and especially
to determine how a remote branching substituent significantly alters
the binding mode of the sugar entity. These results highlight the
key influence of common structural modifications in natural glycans
on molecular recognition processes and underscore their importance
for the development of biomedical applications.
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- Ana Gimeno
- Molecular Recognition & Host−Pathogen Interactions Unit, CIC bioGUNE, Bizkaia Technology Park, Building 801A, 48170 Derio, Spain
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- Glycotechnology
Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo Miramón 182, 20014 San Sebastián, Spain
- CIBER-BBN, Paseo Miramón 182, 20014 San Sebastián, Spain
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- Chemical
and Physical Biology, CIB-CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Bioorganic
Chemistry, Gebäude NWI, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganic
Chemistry, Gebäude NWI, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Molecular Recognition & Host−Pathogen Interactions Unit, CIC bioGUNE, Bizkaia Technology Park, Building 801A, 48170 Derio, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Maria Diaz de Haro 13, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
- Department of Organic Chemistry II, Faculty of Science & Technology, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain
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- Molecular Recognition & Host−Pathogen Interactions Unit, CIC bioGUNE, Bizkaia Technology Park, Building 801A, 48170 Derio, Spain
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Manning JC, García Caballero G, Knospe C, Kaltner H, Gabius HJ. Network analysis of adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins and their binding sites in adult chicken retina and choroid. J Anat 2017; 231:23-37. [PMID: 28425099 DOI: 10.1111/joa.12612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The highly ordered multilayered organization of the adult chicken retina is a suitable test model for examining zonal distribution of the members of a bioeffector family. Based on the concept of the sugar code, the functional pairing of glycan epitopes with cognate receptors (lectins) is emerging as a means to explain the control of diverse physiological activities. Having recently completed the biochemical characterization of all seven adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins present in chicken, it was possible to establish how the individual characteristics of their expression profiles add up to shape the galectin network, which until now has not been defined at this level of complexity. This information will also have relevance in explaining the region-specific presence of glycan determinants in the retina, as illustrated in the first part of this study using a panel of nine plant/fungal agglutinins. The following systematic monitoring of the galectins yielded patterns for which quantitative and qualitative differences were detected. Obviously, positivity in distinct layers is not confined to a single protein of this family, e.g. CG-1A, CG-3 or CG-8. These results underline the requirement for network analysis for these proteins that can functionally interact in additive or antagonistic modes. Labeling of the tissue galectins facilitated profiling of their accessible binding sites. It also revealed differences among the galectin family members, highlighting the ability of this method to define binding properties on the level of tissue sections. Methodologically, the detection of endogenous lectins intimates that cognate glycans can become inaccessible, a notable caveat for lectin histochemical studies.
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- Joachim C Manning
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Corfield A. Eukaryotic protein glycosylation: a primer for histochemists and cell biologists. Histochem Cell Biol 2017; 147:119-147. [PMID: 28012131 PMCID: PMC5306191 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-016-1526-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Proteins undergo co- and posttranslational modifications, and their glycosylation is the most frequent and structurally variegated type. Histochemically, the detection of glycan presence has first been performed by stains. The availability of carbohydrate-specific tools (lectins, monoclonal antibodies) has revolutionized glycophenotyping, allowing monitoring of distinct structures. The different types of protein glycosylation in Eukaryotes are described. Following this educational survey, examples where known biological function is related to the glycan structures carried by proteins are given. In particular, mucins and their glycosylation patterns are considered as instructive proof-of-principle case. The tissue and cellular location of glycoprotein biosynthesis and metabolism is reviewed, with attention to new findings in goblet cells. Finally, protein glycosylation in disease is documented, with selected examples, where aberrant glycan expression impacts on normal function to let disease pathology become manifest. The histological applications adopted in these studies are emphasized throughout the text.
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- Anthony Corfield
- Mucin Research Group, School of Clinical Sciences, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK.
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Latypova L, Sibgatullina R, Ogura A, Fujiki K, Khabibrakhmanova A, Tahara T, Nozaki S, Urano S, Tsubokura K, Onoe H, Watanabe Y, Kurbangalieva A, Tanaka K. Sequential Double "Clicks" toward Structurally Well-Defined Heterogeneous N-Glycoclusters: The Importance of Cluster Heterogeneity on Pattern Recognition In Vivo. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2017; 4:1600394. [PMID: 28251056 PMCID: PMC5323863 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201600394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Structurally well-defined heterogeneous N-glycoclusters are prepared on albumin via a double click procedure. The number of glycan molecules present, in addition to the spatial arrangement of glycans in the heterogeneous glycoclusters, plays an important role in the in vivo kinetics and organ-selective accumulation through glycan pattern recognition mechanisms.
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- Liliya Latypova
- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry LaboratoryRIKEN, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
- Biofunctional Chemistry LaboratoryA. Butlerov Institute of ChemistryKazan Federal University18 Kremlyovskaya streetKazan420008Russia
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry LaboratoryRIKEN, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
- Biofunctional Chemistry LaboratoryA. Butlerov Institute of ChemistryKazan Federal University18 Kremlyovskaya streetKazan420008Russia
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry LaboratoryRIKEN, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry LaboratoryRIKEN, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
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- Biofunctional Chemistry LaboratoryA. Butlerov Institute of ChemistryKazan Federal University18 Kremlyovskaya streetKazan420008Russia
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- Center for Life Science TechnologiesRIKENMinatojima‐minamimachi, Chuo‐kuKobe, Hyogo650‐0047Japan
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- Center for Life Science TechnologiesRIKENMinatojima‐minamimachi, Chuo‐kuKobe, Hyogo650‐0047Japan
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry LaboratoryRIKEN, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry LaboratoryRIKEN, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
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- Center for Life Science TechnologiesRIKENMinatojima‐minamimachi, Chuo‐kuKobe, Hyogo650‐0047Japan
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- Center for Life Science TechnologiesRIKENMinatojima‐minamimachi, Chuo‐kuKobe, Hyogo650‐0047Japan
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- Biofunctional Chemistry LaboratoryA. Butlerov Institute of ChemistryKazan Federal University18 Kremlyovskaya streetKazan420008Russia
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry LaboratoryRIKEN, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
- Biofunctional Chemistry LaboratoryA. Butlerov Institute of ChemistryKazan Federal University18 Kremlyovskaya streetKazan420008Russia
- JST‐PRESTO, HirosawaWako‐shi, Saitama351‐0198Japan
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Katoh T, Katayama T, Tomabechi Y, Nishikawa Y, Kumada J, Matsuzaki Y, Yamamoto K. Generation of a Mutant Mucor hiemalis Endoglycosidase That Acts on Core-fucosylated N-Glycans. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:23305-23317. [PMID: 27629418 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.737395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase M (Endo-M), an endoglycosidase from the fungus Mucor hiemalis, is a useful tool for chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycoconjugates, including glycoprotein-based therapeutics having a precisely defined glycoform, by virtue of its transglycosylation activity. Although Endo-M has been known to act on various N-glycans, it does not act on core-fucosylated N-glycans, which exist widely in mammalian glycoproteins, thus limiting its application. Therefore, we performed site-directed mutagenesis on Endo-M to isolate mutant enzymes that are able to act on mammalian-type core-α1,6-fucosylated glycans. Among the Endo-M mutant enzymes generated, those in which the tryptophan at position 251 was substituted with alanine or asparagine showed altered substrate specificities. Such mutant enzymes exhibited increased hydrolysis of a synthetic α1,6-fucosylated trimannosyl core structure, whereas their activity on the afucosylated form decreased. In addition, among the Trp-251 mutants, the W251N mutant was most efficient in hydrolyzing the core-fucosylated substrate. W251N mutants could act on the immunoglobulin G-derived core-fucosylated glycopeptides and human lactoferrin glycoproteins. This mutant was also capable of transferring the sialyl glycan from an activated substrate intermediate (sialyl glyco-oxazoline) onto an α1,6-fucosyl-N-acetylglucosaminyl biotin. Furthermore, the W251N mutant gained a glycosynthase-like activity when a N175Q substitution was introduced and it caused accumulation of the transglycosylation products. These findings not only give insights into the substrate recognition mechanism of glycoside hydrolase family 85 enzymes but also widen their scope of application in preparing homogeneous glycoforms of core-fucosylated glycoproteins for the production of potent glycoprotein-based therapeutics.
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- Toshihiko Katoh
- From the Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan,
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- From the Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.,the Host-Microbe Interaction Research Laboratory and
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- the Research Institute for Bioresources and Biotechnology, Ishikawa Prefectural University, Nonoichi, Ishikawa 921-8836, Japan, and
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- Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., 6-15-9 Toshima, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-0003, Japan
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- Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., 6-15-9 Toshima, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-0003, Japan
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- Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., 6-15-9 Toshima, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-0003, Japan
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- the Research Institute for Bioresources and Biotechnology, Ishikawa Prefectural University, Nonoichi, Ishikawa 921-8836, Japan, and
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Yang M, Angles d’Ortoli T, Säwén E, Jana M, Widmalm G, MacKerell AD. Delineating the conformational flexibility of trisaccharides from NMR spectroscopy experiments and computer simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:18776-94. [PMID: 27346493 PMCID: PMC4945446 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02970a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
The conformation of saccharides in solution is challenging to characterize in the context of a single well-defined three-dimensional structure. Instead, they are better represented by an ensemble of conformations associated with their structural diversity and flexibility. In this study, we delineate the conformational heterogeneity of five trisaccharides via a combination of experimental and computational techniques. Experimental NMR measurements target conformationally sensitive parameters, including J couplings and effective distances around the glycosidic linkages, while the computational simulations apply the well-calibrated additive CHARMM carbohydrate force field in combination with efficient enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulation methods. Analysis of conformational heterogeneity is performed based on sampling of discreet states as defined by dihedral angles, on root-mean-square differences of Cartesian coordinates and on the extent of volume sampled. Conformational clustering, based on the glycosidic linkage dihedral angles, shows that accounting for the full range of sampled conformations is required to reproduce the experimental data, emphasizing the utility of the molecular simulations in obtaining an atomic detailed description of the conformational properties of the saccharides. Results show the presence of differential conformational preferences as a function of primary sequence and glycosidic linkage types. Significant differences in conformational ensembles associated with the anomeric configuration of a single glycosidic linkage reinforce the impact of such changes on the conformational properties of carbohydrates. The present structural insights of the studied trisaccharides represent a foundation for understanding the range of conformations adopted in larger oligosaccharides and how these molecules encode their conformational heterogeneity into the monosaccharide sequence.
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- Mingjun Yang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
- Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India 769008
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
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Mönnich M, Eller S, Karagiannis T, Perkams L, Luber T, Ott D, Niemietz M, Hoffman J, Walcher J, Berger L, Pischl M, Weishaupt M, Wirkner C, Lichtenstein RG, Unverzagt C. Hocheffiziente Synthese von multiantennären “bisected” N-Glycanen über Imidate. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201604190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Manuel Mönnich
- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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- Department of Biotechnology Engineering; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1; Universität Bayreuth; 95440 Bayreuth Deutschland
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Mönnich M, Eller S, Karagiannis T, Perkams L, Luber T, Ott D, Niemietz M, Hoffman J, Walcher J, Berger L, Pischl M, Weishaupt M, Wirkner C, Lichtenstein RG, Unverzagt C. Highly Efficient Synthesis of Multiantennary Bisected N-glycans Based on Imidates. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:10487-92. [PMID: 27443163 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201604190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The occurrence of N-glycans with a bisecting GlcNAc modification on glycoproteins has many implications in developmental and immune biology. However, these particular N-glycans are difficult to obtain either from nature or through synthesis. We have developed a flexible and general method for synthesizing bisected N-glycans of the complex type by employing modular TFAc-protected donors for all antennae. The TFAc-protected N-glycans are suitable for the late introduction of a bisecting GlcNAc. This integrated strategy permits for the first time the use of a single approach for multiantennary N-glycans as well as their bisected derivatives via imidates, with unprecedented yields even in a one-pot double glycosylation. With this new method, rare N-glycans of the bisected type can be obtained readily, thereby providing defined tools to decipher the biological roles of bisecting GlcNAc modifications.
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- Manuel Mönnich
- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
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- Bioorganische Chemie, Gebäude NW1, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany.
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A robust platform for facile defined glycan synthesis does not exist. Yet the need for such technology has never been greater as researchers seek to understand the full scope of carbohydrate function, stretching beyond the classical roles of structure and energy storage to encompass highly nuanced cell signaling events. To comprehensively explore and exploit the full diversity of carbohydrate functions, we must first be able to synthesize them in a controlled manner. Toward this goal, traditional chemical syntheses are inefficient while nature's own synthetic enzymes, the glycosyl transferases, can be challenging to express and expensive to employ on scale. Glycoside hydrolases represent a pool of glycan processing enzymes that can be either used in a transglycosylation mode or, better, engineered to function as "glycosynthases," mutant enzymes capable of assembling glycosides. Glycosynthases grant access to valuable glycans that act as functional and structural probes or indeed as inhibitors and therapeutics in their own right. The remodelling of glycosylation patterns in therapeutic proteins via glycoside hydrolases and their mutants is an exciting frontier in both basic research and industrial scale processes.
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- Phillip M. Danby
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Yang M, Huang J, MacKerell AD. Enhanced conformational sampling using replica exchange with concurrent solute scaling and hamiltonian biasing realized in one dimension. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 11:2855-67. [PMID: 26082676 PMCID: PMC4463548 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Replica exchange (REX) is a powerful
computational tool for overcoming
the quasi-ergodic sampling problem of complex molecular systems. Recently,
several multidimensional extensions of this method have been developed
to realize exchanges in both temperature and biasing potential space
or the use of multiple biasing potentials to improve sampling efficiency.
However, increased computational cost due to the multidimensionality
of exchanges becomes challenging for use on complex systems under
explicit solvent conditions. In this study, we develop a one-dimensional
(1D) REX algorithm to concurrently combine the advantages of overall
enhanced sampling from Hamiltonian solute scaling and the specific
enhancement of collective variables using Hamiltonian biasing potentials.
In the present Hamiltonian replica exchange method, termed HREST-BP,
Hamiltonian solute scaling is applied to the solute subsystem, and
its interactions with the environment to enhance overall conformational
transitions and biasing potentials are added along selected collective
variables associated with specific conformational transitions, thereby
balancing the sampling of different hierarchical degrees of freedom.
The two enhanced sampling approaches are implemented concurrently
allowing for the use of a small number of replicas (e.g., 6 to 8)
in 1D, thus greatly reducing the computational cost in complex system
simulations. The present method is applied to conformational sampling
of two nitrogen-linked glycans (N-glycans) found
on the HIV gp120 envelope protein. Considering the general importance
of the conformational sampling problem, HREST-BP represents an efficient
procedure for the study of complex saccharides, and, more generally,
the method is anticipated to be of general utility for the conformational
sampling in a wide range of macromolecular systems.
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- Mingjun Yang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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Yang M, MacKerell AD. Conformational sampling of oligosaccharides using Hamiltonian replica exchange with two-dimensional dihedral biasing potentials and the weighted histogram analysis method (WHAM). J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 11:788-99. [PMID: 25705140 DOI: 10.1021/ct500993h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Oligosaccharides and polysaccharides exert numerous functional roles in biology through their structural diversity and conformational properties. To investigate their conformational properties using computational methods, Hamiltonian replica exchange (H-REX) combined with two-dimensional grid-based correction maps as biasing potentials (bpCMAP) significantly improves the sampling efficiency about glycosidic linkages. In the current study, we extend the application of H-REX with bpCMAP to complex saccharides and establish systematic procedures for bpCMAP construction, determination of replica distribution, and data analysis. Our main findings are that (1) the bpCMAP for each type of glycosidic linkage can be constructed from the corresponding disaccharide using gas-phase umbrella sampling simulations, (2) the replica distribution can be conveniently determined following the exact definition of the average acceptance ratio based on the assigned distribution of biasing potentials, and (3) the extracted free energy surface (or potential of mean force (PMF)) can be improved using the weighted histogram analysis method (WHAM) allowing for the inclusion of data from the excited state replicas in the calculated probability distribution. The method is applied to a branched N-glycan found on the HIV gp120 protein, and a linear N-glycan. Considering the general importance of N-glycans and the wide appreciation of the sampling problem, the present method represents an efficient procedure for the conformational sampling of complex oligo- and polysaccharides under explicit solvent conditions. More generally, the use of WHAM is anticipated to be of general utility for the calculation of PMFs from H-REX simulations in a wide range of macromolecular systems.
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- Mingjun Yang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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Gabius HJ, Manning JC, Kopitz J, André S, Kaltner H. Sweet complementarity: the functional pairing of glycans with lectins. Cell Mol Life Sci 2016; 73:1989-2016. [PMID: 26956894 PMCID: PMC11108359 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-016-2163-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Revised: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Carbohydrates establish the third alphabet of life. As part of cellular glycoconjugates, the glycans generate a multitude of signals in a minimum of space. The presence of distinct glycotopes and the glycome diversity are mapped by sugar receptors (antibodies and lectins). Endogenous (tissue) lectins can read the sugar-encoded information and translate it into functional aspects of cell sociology. Illustrated by instructive examples, each glycan has its own ligand properties. Lectins with different folds can converge to target the same epitope, while intrafamily diversification enables functional cooperation and antagonism. The emerging evidence for the concept of a network calls for a detailed fingerprinting. Due to the high degree of plasticity and dynamics of the display of genes for lectins the validity of extrapolations between different organisms of the phylogenetic tree yet is inevitably limited.
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- H-J Gabius
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, 80539, Munich, Germany.
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, 80539, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, Department of Applied Tumor Biology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 224, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, 80539, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, 80539, Munich, Germany
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Ogura A, Kurbangalieva A, Tanaka K. Exploring the glycan interaction in vivo: Future prospects of neo-glycoproteins for diagnostics. Glycobiology 2016; 26:804-12. [PMID: 26980440 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cww038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Accepted: 03/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Herein the biodistributions and in vivo kinetics of chemically prepared neoglycoproteins are reviewed. Chemical methods can be used to conjugate various mono- and oligosaccharides onto a protein surface. The kinetics and organ-specific accumulation profiles of these glycoconjugates, which are introduced through intravenous injections, have been analyzed using conventional dissection studies as well as noninvasive methods such as single photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography and fluorescence imaging. These studies suggest that glycan-dependent protein distribution kinetics may be useful for pharmacological and diagnostic applications.
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- Akihiro Ogura
- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Biofunctional Chemistry Laboratory, A. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya street, Kazan 420008, Russia
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- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Biofunctional Chemistry Laboratory, A. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya street, Kazan 420008, Russia JST PRESTO, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Nagae M, Kanagawa M, Morita-Matsumoto K, Hanashima S, Kizuka Y, Taniguchi N, Yamaguchi Y. Atomic visualization of a flipped-back conformation of bisected glycans bound to specific lectins. Sci Rep 2016; 6:22973. [PMID: 26971576 PMCID: PMC4789653 DOI: 10.1038/srep22973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Glycans normally exist as a dynamic equilibrium of several conformations. A fundamental question concerns how such molecules bind lectins despite disadvantageous entropic loss upon binding. Bisected glycan, a glycan possessing bisecting N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), is potentially a good model for investigating conformational dynamics and glycan-lectin interactions, owing to the unique ability of this sugar residue to alter conformer populations and thus modulate the biological activities. Here we analyzed bisected glycan in complex with two unrelated lectins, Calsepa and PHA-E. The crystal structures of the two complexes show a conspicuous flipped back glycan structure (designated 'back-fold' conformation), and solution NMR analysis also provides evidence of 'back-fold' glycan structure. Indeed, statistical conformational analysis of available bisected and non-bisected glycan structures suggests that bisecting GlcNAc restricts the conformations of branched structures. Restriction of glycan flexibility by certain sugar residues may be more common than previously thought and impinges on the mechanism of glycoform-dependent biological functions.
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- Masamichi Nagae
- Structural Glycobiology Team, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Structural Glycobiology Team, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka University, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Disease Glycomics Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN-Max Planck Joint Research Center, RIKEN Global Research Cluster, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Disease Glycomics Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN-Max Planck Joint Research Center, RIKEN Global Research Cluster, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Structural Glycobiology Team, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Giddens JP, Lomino JV, Amin MN, Wang LX. Endo-F3 Glycosynthase Mutants Enable Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Core-fucosylated Triantennary Complex Type Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:9356-70. [PMID: 26966183 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.721597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Chemoenzymatic synthesis is emerging as a promising approach to the synthesis of homogeneous glycopeptides and glycoproteins highly demanded for functional glycomics studies, but its generality relies on the availability of a range of enzymes with high catalytic efficiency and well defined substrate specificity. We describe in this paper the discovery of glycosynthase mutants derived from Elizabethkingia meningoseptica endoglycosidase F3 (Endo-F3) of the GH18 family, which are devoid of the inherent hydrolytic activity but are able to take glycan oxazolines for transglycosylation. Notably, the Endo-F3 D165A and D165Q mutants demonstrated high acceptorsubstrate specificity toward α1,6-fucosyl-GlcNAc-Asn or α1,6-fucosyl-GlcNAc-polypeptide in transglycosylation, enabling a highly convergent synthesis of core-fucosylated, complex CD52 glycopeptide antigen. The Endo-F3 mutants were able to use both bi- and triantennary glycan oxazolines as substrates for transglycosylation, in contrast to previously reported endoglycosidases derived from Endo-S, Endo-M, Endo-D, and Endo-A mutants that could not recognize triantennary N-glycans. Using rituximab as a model system, we have further demonstrated that the Endo-F3 mutants are highly efficient for glycosylation remodeling of monoclonal antibodies to produce homogeneous intact antibody glycoforms. Interestingly, the new triantennary glycan glycoform of antibody showed much higher affinity for galectin-3 than that of the commercial antibody. The Endo-F3 mutants represent the first endoglycosidase-based glycosynthases capable of transferring triantennary complex N-glycans, which would be very useful for glycoprotein synthesis and glycosylation remodeling of antibodies.
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- John P Giddens
- From the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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- From the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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- From the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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Tanaka K. Chemically synthesized glycoconjugates on proteins: effects of multivalency and glycoform in vivo. Org Biomol Chem 2016; 14:7610-21. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ob00788k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The biodistributions and in vivo kinetics of chemically prepared glycoconjugates on proteins are reviewed.
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- Katsunori Tanaka
- Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory
- RIKEN
- Wako-shi
- Japan
- Biofunctional Chemistry Laboratory
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Defaus S, Gupta P, Andreu D, Gutiérrez-Gallego R. Mammalian protein glycosylation--structure versus function. Analyst 2015; 139:2944-67. [PMID: 24779027 DOI: 10.1039/c3an02245e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Carbohydrates fulfil many common as well as extremely important functions in nature. They show a variety of molecular displays--e.g., free mono-, oligo-, and polysaccharides, glycolipids, proteoglycans, glycoproteins, etc.--with particular roles and localizations in living organisms. Structure-specific peculiarities are so many and diverse that it becomes virtually impossible to cover them all from an analytical perspective. Hence this manuscript, focused on mammalian glycosylation, rather than a complete list of analytical descriptors or recognized functions for carbohydrate structures, comprehensively reviews three central issues in current glycoscience, namely (i) structural analysis of glycoprotein glycans, covering both classical and novel approaches for teasing out the structural puzzle as well as potential pitfalls of these processes; (ii) an overview of functions attributed to carbohydrates, covering from monosaccharide to complex, well-defined epitopes and full glycans, including post-glycosylational modifications, and (iii) recent technical advances allowing structural identification of glycoprotein glycans with simultaneous assignation of biological functions.
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- S Defaus
- Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
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Brzezicka K, Echeverria B, Serna S, van Diepen A, Hokke CH, Reichardt NC. Synthesis and microarray-assisted binding studies of core xylose and fucose containing N-glycans. ACS Chem Biol 2015; 10:1290-302. [PMID: 25664929 DOI: 10.1021/cb501023u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The synthesis of a collection of 33 xylosylated and core-fucosylated N-glycans found only in nonmammalian organisms such as plants and parasitic helminths has been achieved by employing a highly convergent chemo-enzymatic approach. The influence of these core modifications on the interaction with plant lectins, with the human lectin DC-SIGN (Dendritic Cell-Specific Intercellular adhesion molecule-3-Grabbing Nonintegrin), and with serum antibodies from schistosome-infected individuals was studied. Core xylosylation markedly reduced or completely abolished binding to several mannose-binding plant lectins and to DC-SIGN, a C-type lectin receptor present on antigen presenting cells. Employing the synthetic collection of core-fucosylated and core-xylosylated N-glycans in the context of a larger glycan array including structures lacking these core modifications, we were able to dissect core xylose and core fucose specific antiglycan antibody responses in S. mansoni infection sera, and we observed clear and immunologically relevant differences between children and adult groups infected with this parasite. The work presented here suggests that, quite similar to bisecting N-acetylglucosamine, core xylose distorts the conformation of the unsubstituted glycan, with important implications for the immunogenicity and protein binding properties of complex N-glycans.
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- Katarzyna Brzezicka
- Glycotechnology
Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo Miramón 182, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain
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- Glycotechnology
Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo Miramón 182, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain
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- Glycotechnology
Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo Miramón 182, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain
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- Parasite
Glycobiology Group, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O.
Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Parasite
Glycobiology Group, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O.
Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Glycotechnology
Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo Miramón 182, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain
- CIBER BBN, Paseo Miramón
182, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain
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Gabius HJ, Kaltner H, Kopitz J, André S. The glycobiology of the CD system: a dictionary for translating marker designations into glycan/lectin structure and function. Trends Biochem Sci 2015; 40:360-76. [PMID: 25981696 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Revised: 03/26/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The profile of cell surface molecules, the biochemical platform for cellular communication, can be likened to a molecular fingerprint. Historically, raising monoclonal antibodies by immunization with cells has been instrumental in obtaining tools suited for phenotyping and functional analysis. Initially for leukocyte antigens, the resulting cluster of differentiation (CD) nomenclature has become a popular system for classification. Glycans presented on proteins or lipids and receptors for carbohydrate structures (lectins) are part of the CD list. Our review presents biochemical and biomedical highlights of the respective CD entries.
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- Hans-Joachim Gabius
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Veterinärstraße 13, 80539 Munich, Germany.
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Veterinärstraße 13, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, Department of Applied Tumor Biology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 224, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Veterinärstraße 13, 80539 Munich, Germany
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Lectins: getting familiar with translators of the sugar code. Molecules 2015; 20:1788-823. [PMID: 25621423 PMCID: PMC6272290 DOI: 10.3390/molecules20021788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Revised: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 01/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The view on the significance of the presence of glycans in glycoconjugates is undergoing a paradigmatic change. Initially mostly considered to be rather inert and passive, the concept of the sugar code identifies glycans as highly versatile platform to store information. Their chemical properties endow carbohydrates to form oligomers with unsurpassed structural variability. Owing to their capacity to engage in hydrogen (and coordination) bonding and C-H/π-interactions these “code words” can be “read” (in Latin, legere) by specific receptors. A distinct class of carbohydrate-binding proteins are the lectins. More than a dozen protein folds have developed carbohydrate-binding capacity in vertebrates. Taking galectins as an example, distinct expression patterns are traced. The availability of labeled endogenous lectins facilitates monitoring of tissue reactivity, extending the scope of lectin histochemistry beyond that which traditionally involved plant lectins. Presentation of glycan and its cognate lectin can be orchestrated, making a glycan-based effector pathway in growth control of tumor and activated T cells possible. In order to unravel the structural basis of lectin specificity for particular glycoconjugates mimetics of branched glycans and programmable models of cell surfaces are being developed by strategic combination of lectin research with synthetic and supramolecular chemistry.
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In vivo kinetics and biodistribution analysis of neoglycoproteins: effects of chemically introduced glycans on proteins. Glycoconj J 2014; 31:273-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s10719-014-9520-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Revised: 03/12/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Solís D, Bovin NV, Davis AP, Jiménez-Barbero J, Romero A, Roy R, Smetana K, Gabius HJ. A guide into glycosciences: How chemistry, biochemistry and biology cooperate to crack the sugar code. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2014; 1850:186-235. [PMID: 24685397 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2014.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2013] [Revised: 03/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND The most demanding challenge in research on molecular aspects within the flow of biological information is posed by the complex carbohydrates (glycan part of cellular glycoconjugates). How the 'message' encoded in carbohydrate 'letters' is 'read' and 'translated' can only be unraveled by interdisciplinary efforts. SCOPE OF REVIEW This review provides a didactic step-by-step survey of the concept of the sugar code and the way strategic combination of experimental approaches characterizes structure-function relationships, with resources for teaching. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS The unsurpassed coding capacity of glycans is an ideal platform for generating a broad range of molecular 'messages'. Structural and functional analyses of complex carbohydrates have been made possible by advances in chemical synthesis, rendering production of oligosaccharides, glycoclusters and neoglycoconjugates possible. This availability facilitates to test the glycans as ligands for natural sugar receptors (lectins). Their interaction is a means to turn sugar-encoded information into cellular effects. Glycan/lectin structures and their spatial modes of presentation underlie the exquisite specificity of the endogenous lectins in counterreceptor selection, that is, to home in on certain cellular glycoproteins or glycolipids. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Understanding how sugar-encoded 'messages' are 'read' and 'translated' by lectins provides insights into fundamental mechanisms of life, with potential for medical applications.
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- Dolores Solís
- Instituto de Química Física "Rocasolano", CSIC, Serrano 119, 28006 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), 07110 Bunyola, Mallorca, Illes Baleares, Spain.
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- Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul Miklukho-Maklaya 16/10, 117871 GSP-7, V-437, Moscow, Russian Federation.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
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- Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, P.O. Box 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada.
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- Charles University, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy, U nemocnice 3, 128 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, 80539 München, Germany.
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Gabius HJ, Kayser K. Introduction to glycopathology: the concept, the tools and the perspectives. Diagn Pathol 2014; 9:4. [PMID: 24443956 PMCID: PMC4029355 DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-9-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2013] [Accepted: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Virtual slides The virtual slides for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/1670639891114983. Analyzing the flow of biological information is a fundamental challenge for basic sciences. The emerging results will then lend themselves to the development of new approaches for medical applications. Toward this end, the products of protein/lipid glycosylation deserve special attention. The covalent attachment of sugars to these carriers means much more than just a change of the carriers’ physicochemical properties. In principle, the ubiquitous presence of glycoconjugates and the close inspection of the particular structural ‘talents’ of carbohydrates provide suggestive evidence for information coding by sugars. In fact, the theoretical number of ‘words’ (oligomers) formed by ‘letters’ (monosaccharides) is by far higher than by using nucleotides or amino acids. In other words, glycans harbor an unsurpassed coding capacity. The cyto- and histochemical detection of dynamic changes in the profile of cellular glycans (glycome, the equivalent of the proteome) by sugar receptors such as antibodies used as tools underscores the suitability of carbohydrates for such a task. The resulting staining patterns can be likened to a molecular fingerprint. By acting as ligand (counterreceptor) for endogenous receptors (tissue lectins), glycan epitopes become partners in a specific recognition pair, and the sugar-encoded information can then be translated into effects, e.g. in growth regulation. Of note, expression of both sides of such a pair, i.e. lectin and cognate glycan, can physiologically be orchestrated for optimal efficiency. Indeed, examples how to prevent autoimmune diseases by regulatory T cells and restrict carcinoma growth by a tumor suppressor attest occurrence of co-regulation. In consequence, these glycans have potential to establish a new class of functional biomarkers, and mapping presence of their receptors is warranted. In this review, the cyto- and histochemical methods, which contribute to explore information storage and transfer within the sugar code, are described. This introduction to the toolbox is flanked by illustrating the application of each type of tool in histopathology, with focus on adhesion/growth-regulating galectins. Together with an introduction to fundamental principles of the sugar code, the review is designed to guide into this field and to inspire respective research efforts.
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- Hans-Joachim Gabius
- Chair of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr 13, D-80539, Munich, Germany.
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André S, Wang GN, Gabius HJ, Murphy PV. Combining glycocluster synthesis with protein engineering: an approach to probe into the significance of linker length in a tandem-repeat-type lectin (galectin-4). Carbohydr Res 2014; 389:25-38. [PMID: 24698724 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2013.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2013] [Revised: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 12/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Complementarity in lectin-glycan interactions in situ is assumed to involve spatial features in both the lectin and the glycan, giving a functional meaning to structural aspects of the lectin beyond its carbohydrate-binding site. In combining protein engineering with glycocluster synthesis, it is shown that the natural linker length of a tandem-repeat-type human lectin (galectin-4) determines binding properties in two binding assays (using surface-presented glycoprotein and cell surface assays). The types of glycocluster tested included bivalent lactosides based on tertiary amides of terephthalic, isophthalic, 2,6-naphthalic and oxalic acids as well as bivalent H(type 2) trisaccharides grafted on secondary/tertiary terephthalamides and two triazole-linker-containing cores. The presented data reveal a marked change in susceptibility to the test compounds when turning the tandem-repeat-type to a proto-type-like display. The testing of glycoclusters is suggested as a general strategy to help to delineate the significance of distinct structural features of lectins beyond their contact sites to the glycan.
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- Sabine André
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Veterinärstr. 13, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
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Tanaka K, Fukase K. Chemical Approach to a Whole Body Imaging of Sialo-N-Linked Glycans. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2014; 367:201-30. [PMID: 25971916 DOI: 10.1007/128_2014_603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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PET and noninvasive fluorescence imaging of the sialo-N-linked glycan derivatives are described. To establish the efficient labeling protocol for N-glycans and/or glycoconjugates, new labeling probes of fluorescence and ⁶⁸Ga-DOTA, as the positron emission nucleus for PET, through rapid 6π-azaelectrocyclization were designed and synthesized, (E)-ester aldehydes. The high reactivity of these probes enabled the labeling of lysine residues in peptides, proteins, and even amino groups on the cell surfaces at very low concentrations of the target molecules (~10⁻⁸ M) within a short reaction time (~5 min) to result in "selective" and "non-destructive" labeling of the more accessible amines. The first MicroPET of glycoproteins, ⁶⁸Ga-DOTA-orosomucoid and asialoorosomucoid, successfully visualized the differences in the circulatory residence of glycoproteins, in the presence or absence of sialic acids. In vivo dynamics of the new N-glycoclusters, prepared by the "self-activating" Huisgen cycloaddition reaction, could also be affected significantly by their partial structures at the non-reducing end, i.e., the presence or absence of sialic acids, and/or sialoside linkages to galactose. Azaelectrocyclization chemistry is also applicable to the engineering of the proteins and/or the cell surfaces by the oligosaccharides; lymphocytes chemically engineered by sialo-N-glycan successfully target the tumor implanted in BALB/C nude mice, detected by noninvasive fluorescence imaging.
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- Katsunori Tanaka
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan,
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Canales A, Mallagaray A, Pérez-Castells J, Boos I, Unverzagt C, André S, Gabius HJ, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. Breaking Pseudo-Symmetry in Multiantennary Complex N-Glycans Using Lanthanide-Binding Tags and NMR Pseudo-Contact Shifts. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201307845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Canales A, Mallagaray A, Pérez-Castells J, Boos I, Unverzagt C, André S, Gabius HJ, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. Breaking Pseudo-Symmetry in Multiantennary Complex N-Glycans Using Lanthanide-Binding Tags and NMR Pseudo-Contact Shifts. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013; 52:13789-93. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Toegel S, Bieder D, André S, Altmann F, Walzer SM, Kaltner H, Hofstaetter JG, Windhager R, Gabius HJ. Glycophenotyping of osteoarthritic cartilage and chondrocytes by RT-qPCR, mass spectrometry, histochemistry with plant/human lectins and lectin localization with a glycoprotein. Arthritis Res Ther 2013; 15:R147. [PMID: 24289744 PMCID: PMC3978707 DOI: 10.1186/ar4330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 09/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION This study aimed to characterize the glycophenotype of osteoarthritic cartilage and human chondrocytes. METHODS Articular knee cartilage was obtained from nine osteoarthritis (OA) patients. mRNA levels for 27 glycosyltransferases were analyzed in OA chondrocytes using RT-qPCR. Additionally, N- and O-glycans were quantified using mass-spectrometry. Histologically, two cartilage areas with Mankin scores (MS) either ≤ 4 or ≥ 9 were selected from each patient representing areas of mild and severe OA, respectively. Tissue sections were stained with (1) a selected panel of plant lectins for probing into the OA glycophenotype, (2) the human lectins galectins-1 and -3, and (3) the glycoprotein asialofetuin (ASF) for visualizing β-galactoside-specific endogenous lectins. RESULTS We found that OA chondrocytes expressed oligomannosidic structures as well as non-, mono- and disialylated complex-type N-glycans, and core 2 O-glycans. Reflecting B4GALNT3 mRNA presence in OA chondrocytes, LacdiNAc-terminated structures were detected. Staining profiles for plant and human lectins were dependent on the grade of cartilage degeneration, and ASF-positive cells were observed in significantly higher rates in areas of severe degeneration. CONCLUSIONS In summary, distinct aspects of the glycome in OA cartilage are altered with progressing degeneration. In particular, the alterations measured by galectin-3 and the pan-galectin sensor ASF encourage detailed studies of galectin functionality in OA.
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Miwa HE, Koba WR, Fine EJ, Giricz O, Kenny PA, Stanley P. Bisected, complex N-glycans and galectins in mouse mammary tumor progression and human breast cancer. Glycobiology 2013; 23:1477-90. [PMID: 24037315 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwt075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Bisected, complex N-glycans on glycoproteins are generated by the glycosyltransferase MGAT3 and cause reduced cell surface binding of galectins. Previously, we showed that MGAT3 reduces growth factor signaling and retards mammary tumor progression driven by the Polyoma middle T antigen (PyMT) expressed in mammary epithelium under the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter. However, the penetrance of the tumor phenotype became variable in mixed FVB/N and C57BL/6 female mice and we therefore investigated a congenic C57BL/6 Mgat3(-/-)/MMTV-PyMT model. In the absence of MGAT3, C57BL/6 Mgat3(-/-)/MMTV-PyMT females exhibited accelerated tumor appearance and increased tumor burden, glucose uptake in tumors and lung metastasis. Nevertheless, activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)1/2 or protein kinase B (AKT) was reduced in ∼20-week C57BL/6 MMTV-PyMT tumors lacking MGAT3. Activation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), protein tyrosine kinase Src, and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase were similar to that of controls. All the eight mouse galectin genes were expressed in mammary tumors and tumor epithelial cells (TECs), but galectin-2 and -12 were not detected by western analysis in tumors, and galectin-7 was not detected in 60% of the TEC lines. From microarray data reported for human breast cancers, at least 10 galectin and 7 N-glycan N-acetylglucosaminyl (GlcNAc)-transferase (MGAT) genes are expressed in tumor tissue, and expression often varies significantly between different breast cancer subtypes. Thus, in summary, while MGAT3 and bisected complex N-glycans retard mouse mammary tumor progression, genetic background may modify this effect; identification of key galectins that promote mammary tumor progression in mice is not straightforward because all the eight galectin genes are expressed; and high levels of MGAT3, galectin-4, -8, -10, -13 and -14 transcripts correlate with better relapse-free survival in human breast cancer.
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The third dimension of reading the sugar code by lectins: design of glycoclusters with cyclic scaffolds as tools with the aim to define correlations between spatial presentation and activity. Molecules 2013; 18:4026-53. [PMID: 23558543 PMCID: PMC6269965 DOI: 10.3390/molecules18044026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2013] [Revised: 03/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/01/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Coding of biological information is not confined to nucleic acids and proteins. Endowed with the highest level of structural versatility among biomolecules, the glycan chains of cellular glycoconjugates are well-suited to generate molecular messages/signals in a minimum of space. The sequence and shape of oligosaccharides as well as spatial aspects of multivalent presentation are assumed to underlie the natural specificity/selectivity that cellular glycans have for endogenous lectins. In order to eventually unravel structure-activity profiles cyclic scaffolds have been used as platforms to produce glycoclusters and afford valuable tools. Using adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins and the pan-galectin ligand lactose as a model, emerging insights into the potential of cyclodextrins, cyclic peptides, calixarenes and glycophanes for this purpose are presented herein. The systematic testing of lectin panels with spatially defined ligand presentations can be considered as a biomimetic means to help clarify the mechanisms, which lead to the exquisite accuracy at which endogenous lectins select their physiological counterreceptors from the complexity of the cellular glycome.
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Ardá A, Blasco P, Varón Silva D, Schubert V, André S, Bruix M, Cañada FJ, Gabius HJ, Unverzagt C, Jiménez-Barbero J. Molecular recognition of complex-type biantennary N-glycans by protein receptors: a three-dimensional view on epitope selection by NMR. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:2667-75. [PMID: 23360551 DOI: 10.1021/ja3104928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The current surge in defining glycobiomarkers by applying lectins rekindles interest in definition of the sugar-binding sites of lectins at high resolution. Natural complex-type N-glycans can present more than one potential binding motif, posing the question of the actual mode of interaction when interpreting, for example, lectin array data. By strategically combining N-glycan preparation with saturation-transfer difference NMR and modeling, we illustrate that epitope recognition depends on the structural context of both the sugar and the lectin (here, wheat germ agglutinin and a single hevein domain) and cannot always be predicted from simplified model systems studied in the solid state. We also monitor branch-end substitutions by this strategy and describe a three-dimensional structure that accounts for the accommodation of the α2,6-sialylated terminus of a biantennary N-glycan by viscumin. In addition, we provide a structural explanation for the role of terminal α2,6-sialylation in precluding the interaction of natural N-glycans with lectin from Maackia amurensis . The approach described is thus capable of pinpointing lectin-binding motifs in natural N-glycans and providing detailed structural explanations for lectin selectivity.
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- Ana Ardá
- Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Amano M, Eriksson H, Manning JC, Detjen KM, André S, Nishimura SI, Lehtiö J, Gabius HJ. Tumour suppressor p16(INK4a) - anoikis-favouring decrease in N/O-glycan/cell surface sialylation by down-regulation of enzymes in sialic acid biosynthesis in tandem in a pancreatic carcinoma model. FEBS J 2013; 279:4062-80. [PMID: 22943525 DOI: 10.1111/febs.12001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Tumour suppressor p16(INK4a) is known to exert cell-cycle control via cyclin-dependent kinases. An emerging aspect of its functionality is the orchestrated modulation of N/O-glycosylation and galectin expression to induce anoikis in human Capan-1 pancreatic carcinoma cells. Using chemoselective N/O-glycan enrichment technology (glycoblotting) and product characterization, we first verified a substantial decrease in sialylation. Tests combining genetic (i.e. transfection with α2,6-sialyltransferase-specific cDNA) or metabolic (i.e. medium supplementation with N-acetylmannosamine to track down a bottleneck in sialic acid biosynthesis) engineering with cytofluorometric analysis of lectin binding indicated a role of limited substrate availability, especially for α2,6-sialylation, which switches off reactivity for anoikis-triggering homodimeric galectin-1. Quantitative MS analysis of protein level changes confirmed an enhanced galectin-1 presence along with an influence on glycosyltransferases (β1,4-galactosyltransferase-IV, α2,3-sialyltransferase-I) and detected p16(INK4a) -dependent down-regulation of two enzymes in the biosynthesis pathway for sialic acid [i.e. the bifunctional UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE) and N-acetylneuraminic acid 9-phosphate synthase] (P < 0.001). By contrast, quantitative assessment for the presence of nuclear CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid synthase (which is responsible for providing the donor for enzymatic sialylation that also acts as feedback inhibitor of the epimerase activity of GNE) revealed a trend for an increase. Partial restoration of sialylation in GNE-transfected cells supports the implied role of sialic acid availability for the glycophenotype. Fittingly, the extent of anoikis was reduced in double-transfected (p16(INK4a) /GNE) cells. Thus, a second means of modulating cell reactivity to the growth effector galectin-1 is established in addition to the common route of altering α2,6-sialyltransferase expression: regulating enzymes of the pathway for sialic acid biosynthesis.
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- Maho Amano
- Field of Drug Discovery Research, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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Fukase K, Tanaka K. Bio-imaging and cancer targeting with glycoproteins and N-glycans. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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