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Haji-Ghassemi O, Müller-Loennies S, Brooks CL, MacKenzie CR, Caveney N, Van Petegem F, Brade L, Kosma P, Brade H, Evans SV. Subtle Changes in the Combining Site of the Chlamydiaceae-Specific mAb S25-23 Increase the Antibody-Carbohydrate Binding Affinity by an Order of Magnitude. Biochemistry 2019; 58:714-726. [PMID: 30571096 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Murine antibodies S25-23, S25-26, and S25-5 derive from a common germ-line origin, and all bind the Chlamydiaceae family-specific epitope αKdo(2→8)αKdo(2→4)αKdo (where Kdo is 3-deoxy-α-d- manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid) with high affinity and specificity. These antibodies recognize the entire trisaccharide antigen in a linkage-dependent manner via a groove composed largely of germ-line residues. Despite sharing identical heavy and light chain genes, S25-23 binds the family-specific epitope with nanomolar affinity, which is an order of magnitude higher than that of S25-26, while S25-5 displays an affinity between those of S25-23 and S25-26. We determined the high-resolution crystal structures of S25-23 and S25-5 antigen binding fragments in complex with a pentasaccharide derived from the LPS of Chlamydia and measured the affinity of S25-5 for chlamydial LPS antigens using isothermal titration microcalorimetry. The 1.75 Å resolution structure of S25-23 shows how subtle conservative mutations Arg(L)-27E to lysine and Ser(H)-56 to threonine lead to an order of magnitude increase in affinity. Importantly, comparison between previous S25-26 structures and the 1.99 and 2.05 Å resolution liganded and unliganded structures of S25-5, respectively, shows how a Ser(L)-27E mutation results in an intermediate affinity due to the reduced enthalpic penalty associated with complex formation that would otherwise be required for arginine in this position. This strategy allows for subtle adjustments in the combining site via affinity maturation that have dramatic consequences for the affinity of an antibody for its antigen.
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- Omid Haji-Ghassemi
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology , University of Victoria , P.O. Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria , British Columbia , Canada V8P 3P6
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- Research Center Borstel , Leibniz Lung Center , Parkallee 22 , Borstel D-23845 , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , Fresno State University , 2555 East San Ramon Avenue, MS SB70 , Fresno , California 93740 , United States
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- Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio , National Research Council Canada , 100 Sussex Drive , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada K1A 0R6
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology , University of Victoria , P.O. Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria , British Columbia , Canada V8P 3P6
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , A-1190 Vienna , Austria
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- Research Center Borstel , Leibniz Lung Center , Parkallee 22 , Borstel D-23845 , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , A-1190 Vienna , Austria
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- Research Center Borstel , Leibniz Lung Center , Parkallee 22 , Borstel D-23845 , Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology , University of Victoria , P.O. Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria , British Columbia , Canada V8P 3P6
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Zhou XY, Yang P, Luo S, Yang JS. Divergent Synthesis of 3-Deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic Acid (Kdo) Glycosides Containing α-(2→4)-Linked Kdo-Kdo Unit. Chem Asian J 2019; 14:454-461. [PMID: 30516348 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201801779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A convenient and divergent approach was developed to prepare diverse bacterial 3-deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid (Kdo) oligosaccharides containing a Kdo-α-(2→4)-Kdo fragment. The orthogonal protected α-(2→4) linked Kdo-Kdo disaccharide 3, serving as a common precursor, was divergently transformed into the corresponding 8-, 8'-, and 4'-hydroxy disaccharides 5, 7, and 14, respectively. Then, these alcohols were glycosylated, respectively, with the 5,7-O-di-tert-butylsilylene (DTBS) protected Kdo thioglycoside donors 1 or 2 in an α-stereoselective and high-yielding manner to afford a range of Kdo oligosaccharides. Finally, removal of all protecting groups of the newly formed glycosides resulted in the desired free Kdo oligomer.
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- Xian-Yang Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery Systems of the Education Ministry, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drugs and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery Systems of the Education Ministry, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drugs and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery Systems of the Education Ministry, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drugs and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery Systems of the Education Ministry, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drugs and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China
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Müller-Loennies S, Grimmecke D, Brade L, Lindner B, Kosma P, Brade H. A novel strategy for the synthesis of neoglycoconjugates from deacylated deep rough lipopolysaccharides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/09680519020080040601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We report a novel strategy for the preparation of neoglycoconjugates of oligosaccharides which are obtained after complete deacylation of bacterial deep rough lipopolysaccharides (LPS) isolated from recombinant Escherichia coli bacteria synthesizing a Kdo di-[α-Kdo-(2→4)-α-Kdo-(2→] and a Kdo trisaccharide [α-Kdo-(2→8)-α-Kdo-(2→4)-α-Kdo-(2→] of Re-type and chlamydial LPS, respectively. Unlike acylated LPS, such oligosaccharides can be obtained in pure form and thus lead to well-defined neoglycoconjugates. Cleavage of the 1-phosphate of the lipid A moiety by alkaline phosphatase treatment leads to a free reducing glucosamine which can be further reacted with allylamine. After reductive amination, spacer elongation of the allyl group with cysteamine and activation with thiophosgene, the ligands were reacted with BSA. We have compared the immunological reactivity of such defined neoglycoconjugates obtained from natural sources with those obtained by chemical synthesis and report that such neoglycoconjugates are immunogenic and well suited as antigens for the study of epitope specificities of monoclonal antibodies. In addition, we have compared these conjugates with those in which ligands were coupled by glutardialdehyde to BSA. Our approach proved to be superior since the latter led upon immunization of mice to a relatively high percentage of antibodies that reacted with glutardialdehyde derivatized BSA without the carbohydrate ligand. This was not the case for cysteamine-spacered ligands coupled via their isothiocyanate-derivatives.
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- Sven Müller-Loennies
- Division of Biochemical and Medical Microbiology, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Research Center Borstel, Germany
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- Division of Biochemical and Medical Microbiology, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Research Center Borstel, Germany
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- Division of Biochemical and Medical Microbiology, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Research Center Borstel, Germany,
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- Division of Biophysics, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biochemical and Medical Microbiology, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Research Center Borstel, Germany
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Pradhan TK, Mong KKT. Glycosylation Chemistry of 3-Deoxy-D-manno-Oct-2-ulosonic Acid (Kdo) Donors. Isr J Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201400145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Haji-Ghassemi O, Müller-Loennies S, Saldova R, Muniyappa M, Brade L, Rudd PM, Harvey DJ, Kosma P, Brade H, Evans SV. Groove-type recognition of chlamydiaceae-specific lipopolysaccharide antigen by a family of antibodies possessing an unusual variable heavy chain N-linked glycan. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:16644-61. [PMID: 24682362 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.528224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The structure of the antigen binding fragment of mAb S25-26, determined to 1.95 Å resolution in complex with the Chlamydiaceae family-specific trisaccharide antigen Kdo(2→8)Kdo(2→4)Kdo (Kdo = 3-deoxy-α-d-manno-oct-2-ulopyranosonic acid), displays a germ-line-coded paratope that differs significantly from previously characterized Chlamydiaceae-specific mAbs despite being raised against the identical immunogen. Unlike the terminal Kdo recognition pocket that promotes cross-reactivity in S25-2-type antibodies, S25-26 and the closely related S25-23 utilize a groove composed of germ-line residues to recognize the entire trisaccharide antigen and so confer strict specificity. Interest in S25-23 was sparked by its rare high μm affinity and strict specificity for the family-specific trisaccharide antigen; however, only the related antibody S25-26 proved amenable to crystallization. The structures of three unliganded forms of S25-26 have a labile complementary-determining region H3 adjacent to significant glycosylation of the variable heavy chain on asparagine 85 in Framework Region 3. Analysis of the glycan reveals a heterogeneous mixture with a common root structure that contains an unusually high number of terminal αGal-Gal moieties. One of the few reported structures of glycosylated mAbs containing these epitopes is the therapeutic antibody Cetuximab; however, unlike Cetuximab, one of the unliganded structures in S25-26 shows significant order in the glycan with appropriate electron density for nine residues. The elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of an αGal-containing N-linked glycan on a mAb variable heavy chain has potential clinical interest, as it has been implicated in allergic response in patients receiving therapeutic antibodies.
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- Omid Haji-Ghassemi
- From the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 3P6, Canada
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- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, Borstel D-23845, Germany,
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- GlycoScience Group, the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- GlycoScience Group, the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, Borstel D-23845, Germany
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- GlycoScience Group, the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Oxford Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, and
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- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, Borstel D-23845, Germany
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 3P6, Canada,
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Gadikota RR, Callam CS, Appelmelk BJ, Lowary TL. Synthesis of Oligosaccharide Fragments of Mannosylated Lipoarabinomannan Appropriately Functionalized for Neoglycoconjugate Preparation. J Carbohydr Chem 2011. [DOI: 10.1081/car-120021696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- a Department of Chemistry , Ohio State University , 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus , OH , 43210 , USA
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- b Department of Medical Microbiology , Medical School , Vrije University , van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
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- a Department of Chemistry , Ohio State University , 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus , OH , 43210 , USA
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Brooks CL, Müller-Loennies S, Borisova SN, Brade L, Kosma P, Hirama T, Mackenzie CR, Brade H, Evans SV. Antibodies raised against chlamydial lipopolysaccharide antigens reveal convergence in germline gene usage and differential epitope recognition. Biochemistry 2010; 49:570-81. [PMID: 20000757 DOI: 10.1021/bi9011308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The structures of antigen-binding fragments from two related monoclonal antibodies have been determined to high resolution in the presence of several carbohydrate antigens raised against chlamydial lipopolysaccharide. With the exception of CDR H3, antibodies S54-10 and S73-2 are both derived from the same set of germline gene segments as the previously reported structures S25-2 and S45-18. Despite this similarity, the antibodies differ in specificity and the mechanism by which they recognize their cognate antigen. S54-10 uses an unrelated CDR H3 to recognize its antigen in a fashion analogous to S45-18; however, S73-2 recognizes the same antigen as S45-18 and S54-10 in a wholly unrelated manner. Together, these antibody-antigen structures provide snapshots into how the immune system uses the same set of inherited germline gene segments to generate multiple possible specificities that allow for differential recognition of epitopes and how unrelated CDR H3 sequences can result in convergent binding of clinically relevant bacterial antigens.
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- Cory L Brooks
- University of Victoria, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, PO Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 3P6
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Synthesis of a neoglycoconjugate containing a Chlamydophila psittaci-specific branched Kdo trisaccharide epitope. Carbohydr Res 2009; 345:704-8. [PMID: 20116048 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2009.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2009] [Accepted: 12/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The branched Kdo trisaccharide sodium (3-deoxy-alpha-D-manno-oct-2-ulopyranosyl)onate-(2-->8)-[sodium (3-deoxy-alpha-D-manno-oct-2-ulopyranosyl)onate-(2-->4)]-sodium (allyl 3-deoxy-alpha-D-manno-oct-2-ulopyranosid)onate has been prepared utilizing the regioselective glycosylation of the C-7, C-8 diol entity of a Kdo monosaccharide acceptor with a Kdo bromide donor followed by the attachment of the third Kdo unit to O-4 of the disaccharide intermediate. Deacetylation and hydrolysis of the methyl ester groups furnished the trisaccharide allyl glycoside which was converted into the corresponding 3-(2-aminoethylthio)propyl glycoside. Subsequent covalent attachment to bovine serum albumin furnished a neoglycoconjugate serving as an antigen for the induction of Chlamydophila psittaci-specific monoclonal antibodies.
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Gadikota RR, Callam CS, Appelmelk BJ, Lowary TL. Synthesis of Oligosaccharide Fragments of Mannosylated Lipoarabinomannan Appropriately Functionalized for Neoglycoconjugate Preparation. J Carbohydr Chem 2006. [DOI: 10.1081/car-120025322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- a Department of Chemistry , Ohio State University , 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, USA
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- b Department of Medical Microbiology , Vrije University, Medical School , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- a Department of Chemistry , Ohio State University , 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, USA
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Müller-Loennies S, Gronow S, Brade L, MacKenzie R, Kosma P, Brade H. A monoclonal antibody against a carbohydrate epitope in lipopolysaccharide differentiates Chlamydophila psittaci from Chlamydophila pecorum, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Chlamydia trachomatis. Glycobiology 2005; 16:184-96. [PMID: 16282606 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwj055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Chlamydophila psittaci but not of Chlamydophila pneumoniae or Chlamydia trachomatis contains a tetrasaccharide of 3-deoxy-alpha-d-manno-oct-2-ulopyranosonic acid (Kdo) of the sequence Kdo(2-->8)[Kdo(2-->4)] Kdo(2-->4)Kdo. After immunization with the synthetic neoglycoconjugate antigen Kdo(2-->8)[Kdo(2-->4)]Kdo(2-->4) Kdo-BSA, we obtained the mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) S69-4 which was able to differentiate C. psittaci from Chlamydophila pecorum, C. pneumoniae, and C. trachomatis in double labeling experiments of infected cell monolayers and by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The epitope specificity of mAb S69-4 was determined by binding and inhibition assays using bacteria, LPS, and natural or synthetic Kdo oligosaccharides as free ligands or conjugated to BSA. The mAb bound preferentially Kdo(2-->8)[Kdo(2-->4)]Kdo(2-->4)Kdo(2-->4) with a K(d) of 10 microM, as determined by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) for the monovalent interaction using mAb or single chain Fv. Cross-reactivity was observed with Kdo(2-->4)Kdo(2-->4) Kdo but not with Kdo(2-->8)Kdo(2-->4)Kdo, Kdo disaccharides in 2-->4- or 2-->8-linkage, or Kdo monosaccharide. MAb S69-4 was able to detect LPS on thin-layer chromatography (TLC) plates in amounts of <10 ng by immunostaining. Due to the high sensitivity achieved in this assay, the antibody also detected in vitro products of cloned Kdo transferases of Chlamydia. The antibody can therefore be used in medical and veterinarian diagnostics, general microbiology, analytical biochemistry, and studies of chlamydial LPS biosynthesis. Further contribution to the general understanding of carbohydrate-binding antibodies was obtained by a comparison of the primary structure of mAb S69-4 to that of mAb S45-18 of which the crystal structure in complex with its ligand has been elucidated recently (Nguyen et al., 2003, Nat. Struct. Biol., 10, 1019-1025).
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- Sven Müller-Loennies
- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, D-23845 Borstel, Germany
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