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Tyrikos-Ergas T, Fittolani G, Seeberger PH, Delbianco M. Structural Studies Using Unnatural Oligosaccharides: Toward Sugar Foldamers. Biomacromolecules 2019; 21:18-29. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.9b01090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Theodore Tyrikos-Ergas
- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Khanal N, Masellis C, Kamrath MZ, Clemmer DE, Rizzo TR. Cryogenic IR spectroscopy combined with ion mobility spectrometry for the analysis of human milk oligosaccharides. Analyst 2019. [PMID: 29541730 DOI: 10.1039/c8an00230d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We report here our combination of cryogenic, messenger-tagging, infrared (IR) spectroscopy with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) as a way to identify and analyze a set of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) ranging from trisaccharides to hexasaccharides. The added dimension of IR spectroscopy provides a diagnostic fingerprint in the OH and NH stretching region, which is crucial to identify these oligosaccharides, which are difficult to distinguish by IMS alone. These results extend our previous work in demonstrating the generality of this combined approach for distinguishing subtly different structural and regioisomers of glycans of biologically relevant size.
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- Neelam Khanal
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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Lopes JPB, Silva L, da Costa Franarin G, Antonio Ceschi M, Seibert Lüdtke D, Ferreira Dantas R, de Salles CMC, Paes Silva-jr F, Roberto Senger M, Alvim Guedes I, Emmanuel Dardenne L. Design, synthesis, cholinesterase inhibition and molecular modelling study of novel tacrine hybrids with carbohydrate derivatives. Bioorg Med Chem 2018; 26:5566-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2018.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Revised: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/07/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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This book chapter describes the basic principles of NMR-based techniques for detecting ligand binding and uses examples of the application of these techniques in drug discovery programs for screening, hit validation and optimization to illustrate their utility in characterizing ligand–protein interactions. The binding of small molecules to biological receptors can be observed directly by detecting changes in a particular NMR parameter when the protein is added to a sample containing the ligand, or indirectly, using a “spy” molecule in competitive NMR experiments. Combinations of different NMR experiments can be used to confirm binding and also to obtain structural information that can be used to guide medicinal chemistry decisions. Ligand-observed NMR methods are able to identify weak affinity ligands that cannot be detected by other biophysical techniques, which means that NMR-based methods are extremely valuable tools for fragment-based drug discovery approaches.
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- María Ángeles Canales
- Department of Química Orgánica I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Avd. Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Lilly Avda. de la Industria 30 28108, Alcobendas, Madrid Spain
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Lo Fiego MJ, Marino C, Varela O. Synthesis of galactofuranosyl-(1 → 5)-thiodisaccharide glycomimetics as inhibitors of a β-d-galactofuranosidase. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra06899a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Description of the synthesis, molecular modeling and inhibitory properties of furanosyl thiodisaccharides that are mimetics of the motif β-d-Galf-(1 → 5)-d-Galf, found in glycoconjugates of pathogenic microorganisms.
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- Marcos J. Lo Fiego
- CIHIDECAR-CONICET-UBA
- Departamento de Química Orgánica
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Argentina
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- CIHIDECAR-CONICET-UBA
- Departamento de Química Orgánica
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Argentina
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- CIHIDECAR-CONICET-UBA
- Departamento de Química Orgánica
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Argentina
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Blázquez-Sánchez MT, Marcelo F, Fernández-Alonso MC, Poveda A, Jiménez-Barbero J, Vicent C. Cooperative hydrogen bonding in glyco-oligoamides: DNA minor groove binders in aqueous media. Chemistry 2014; 20:17640-52. [PMID: 25359390 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201403911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A strategy to create cooperative hydrogen-bonding centers by using strong and directional intramolecular hydrogen-bonding motifs that can survive in aqueous media is presented. In particular, glyco-oligoamides, a family of DNA minor groove binders, with cooperative and non-cooperative hydrogen-bonding donor centers in the carbohydrate residues have been designed, synthesized, and studied by means of NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling methods. Indeed, two different sugar moieties, namely, β-D-Man-Py-γ-Py-Ind (1; Ind=indole, Man=mannose, Py=pyrrole) and β-D-Tal-Py-γ-Py-Ind (2; Tal=talose), were chosen according to our design. These sugar molecules should present one- or two-directional intramolecular hydrogen bonds. The challenge has been to study the conformation of the glyco-oligoamides at low temperature in physiological media by detecting the exchangeable protons (amide NH and OH resonances) by means of NMR spectroscopic analysis. In addition, two more glyco-oligoamides with non-cooperative hydrogen-bonding centers, that is, β-D-Glc-Py-γ-Py-Ind (3; Glc=glucose), β-D-Gal-Py-γ-Py-Ind (4; Gal=galactose), and the model compounds β-D-Man-Py-NHAc (5) and β-D-Tal-Py-NHAc (6) were synthesized and studied for comparison. We have demonstrated the existence of directional intramolecular hydrogen bonds in 1 and 2 in aqueous media. The unexpected differences in terms of stabilization of the intramolecular hydrogen bonds in 1 and 2 relative to 5 and 6 promoted us to evaluate the influence of CH-π interactions on the establishment of intramolecular hydrogen bonds by using computational methods. Initial binding studies of 1 and 2 with calf-thymus DNA and poly(dA-dT)2 by NMR spectroscopic analysis and molecular dynamics simulations were also carried out. Both new sugar-oligoamides are bound in the minor groove of DNA, thus keeping a stable hairpin structure, as in the free state, in which both intramolecular hydrogen-bonding and CH-π interactions are present.
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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: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [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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- Vitor H. Pomin
- Program of
Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry,
and University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-913,
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Stanca-Kaposta EC, Carçabal P, Cocinero EJ, Hurtado P, Simons JP. Carbohydrate-aromatic interactions: vibrational spectroscopy and structural assignment of isolated monosaccharide complexes with p-hydroxy toluene and N-acetyl l-tyrosine methylamide. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:8135-42. [PMID: 23773008 DOI: 10.1021/jp404527s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The nature of carbohydrate binding first to p-hydroxy toluene and then the capped amino acid, N-acetyl l-tyrosine methyl amide (AcTyrNHMe), has been investigated in a solvent-free environment under molecular beam conditions. A combination of double resonance IR-UV spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations has established the structures of complexes with the α and β anomers of methyl d-gluco- and d-galacto- and l-fucopyranosides (α/βMeGlc, MeGal, MeFuc). The new results, when combined with dispersion-corrected DFT calculations, reveal gas phase structures which are dominated by hydrogen bonding but also with evidence of CH-π bonded interactions in complexes with α/βMeGal. These adopt stacked intermolecular structures in marked contrast to those with α/βMeGlc; p-OH → O bonds linking AcTyrNHMe, or p-hydroxy toluene, to the carbohydrate provide an anchor that facilitates further binding, both through OH → O and NH → O hydrogen bonds to the peptide backbone and through CH-π dispersion interactions with the aromatic side group. "Stacked" structures associated with dispersion interactions with the aromatic ring are not detected in the corresponding complexes of capped phenylalanine, despite their common occurrence in bound carbohydrate-protein structures.
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- E Cristina Stanca-Kaposta
- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
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Repetto E, Marino C, Varela O. Synthesis of the (1→6)-linked thiodisaccharide of galactofuranose: Inhibitory activity against a β-galactofuranosidase. Bioorg Med Chem 2013; 21:3327-33. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2013.02.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2012] [Revised: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Canales A, Jiménez-Barbero J, Martín-Pastor M. Review: Use of residual dipolar couplings to determine the structure of carbohydrates. Magn Reson Chem 2012; 50 Suppl 1:S80-S85. [PMID: 23280664 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.3888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Revised: 09/08/2012] [Accepted: 09/20/2012] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is especially useful in the carbohydrate field. The measurement of residual dipolar couplings provides long-range structural information, a valuable complement for the structural study of carbohydrates either in its free form or in the bound state to proteins. They permit to deduce the geometry and the flexibility of the glycosidic linkages, which have a major influence on the conformation of carbohydrates and their overall shape. This article reviews the current application of the residual dipolar couplings methodology to carbohydrates.
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- A Canales
- Department Organic Chemistry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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The C-type lectin dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule 3-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) can serve as a docking site for pathogens on the surface of dendritic cells. Pathogen binding to DC-SIGN can have diverse consequences for the host. DC-SIGN can facilitate HIV-1 dissemination, but the interaction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with DC-SIGN is important for host immunity. The ability of pathogens to target DC-SIGN provides impetus to identify ligands that can perturb these interactions. Here, we describe the first stable small molecule inhibitors of DC-SIGN. These inhibitors were derived from a collection of quinoxalinones, which were assembled using a tandem cross metathesis-hydrogenation sequence. To assess the ability of these small molecules to block DC-SIGN-mediated glycan adhesion and internalization, we developed a sensitive flow cytometry assay. Our results reveal that the quinoxalinones are effective inhibitors of DC-SIGN-glycan interactions. These compounds block both glycan binding to cells and glycan internalization. We anticipate that these non-carbohydrate inhibitors can be used to elucidate the role of DC-SIGN in pathogenesis and immune function.
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- Shane L. Mangold
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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Tsuzuki S, Uchimaru T, Mikami M. Magnitude and nature of carbohydrate-aromatic interactions in fucose-phenol and fucose-indole complexes: CCSD(T) level interaction energy calculations. J Phys Chem A 2011; 115:11256-62. [PMID: 21812469 DOI: 10.1021/jp2045756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The CH/π contact structures of the fucose-phenol and fucose-indole complexes and the stabilization energies by formation of the complexes (E(form)) were studied by ab initio molecular orbital calculations. The three types of interactions (CH/π and OH/π interactions and OH/O hydrogen bonds) were compared and evaluated in a single molecular system and at the same level of theory. The E(form) calculated for the most stable CH/π contact structure of the fucose-phenol complex at the CCSD(T) level (-4.9 kcal/mol) is close to that for the most stable CH/π contact structure of the fucose-benzene complex (-4.5 kcal/mol). On the other hand the most stable CH/π contact structure of the fucose-indole complex has substantially larger E(form) (-6.5 kcal/mol). The dispersion interaction is the major source of the attraction in the CH/π contact structures of the fucose-phenol and fucose-indole complexes as in the case of the fucose-benzene complex. The electrostatic interactions in the CH/π contact structures are small (less than 1.5 kcal/mol). The nature of the interactions between the nonpolar surface of the carbohydrate and aromatic rings is completely different from that of the conventional hydrogen bonds where the electrostatic interaction is the major source of the attraction. The distributed multipole analysis and DFT-SATP analysis show that the dispersion interactions in the CH/π contact structure of fucose-indole complex are substantially larger than those in the CH/π contact structures of fucose-benzene and fucose-phenol complexes. The large dispersion interactions are responsible for the large E(form) for the fucose-indole complex.
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- Seiji Tsuzuki
- CREST, JST, and Research Initiative of Computational Sciences (RICS), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Thompson R, Creavin A, O’Connell M, O’Connor B, Clarke P. Optimization of the enzyme-linked lectin assay for enhanced glycoprotein and glycoconjugate analysis. Anal Biochem 2011; 413:114-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2011.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2010] [Revised: 02/07/2011] [Accepted: 02/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cocinero EJ, Çarçabal P, Vaden TD, Davis BG, Simons JP. Exploring Carbohydrate−Peptide Interactions in the Gas Phase: Structure and Selectivity in Complexes of Pyranosides with N-Acetylphenylalanine Methylamide. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:4548-57. [DOI: 10.1021/ja109664k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Emilio J. Cocinero
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, U.K
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- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, U.K
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- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, U.K
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, U.K
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Vacas T, Corzana F, Jiménez-Osés G, González C, Gómez AM, Bastida A, Revuelta J, Asensio JL. Role of Aromatic Rings in the Molecular Recognition of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics: Implications for Drug Design. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:12074-90. [DOI: 10.1021/ja1046439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Tatiana Vacas
- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica General (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA-CSIC, Logroño, Spain, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Química Física. Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, and Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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Hernández-Gay JJ, Ardá A, Eller S, Mezzato S, Leeflang BR, Unverzagt C, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. Insights into the Dynamics and Molecular Recognition Features of Glycopeptides by Protein Receptors: The 3D Solution Structure of Hevein Bound to the Trisaccharide Core of N-Glycoproteins. Chemistry 2010; 16:10715-26. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201000939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Chávez MI, Vila-Perelló M, Cañada FJ, Andreu D, Jiménez-Barbero J. Effect of a serine-to-aspartate replacement on the recognition of chitin oligosaccharides by truncated hevein. A 3D view by using NMR. Carbohydr Res 2010; 345:1461-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2010.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2009] [Revised: 02/11/2010] [Accepted: 02/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Recent technological advances in glycobiology and glycochemistry are paving the way for a new era in carbohydrate vaccine design. This is enabling greater efficiency in the identification, synthesis and evaluation of unique glycan epitopes found on a plethora of pathogens and malignant cells. Here, we review the progress being made in addressing challenges posed by targeting the surface carbohydrates of bacteria, protozoa, helminths, viruses, fungi and cancer cells for vaccine purposes.
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Ramírez-Gualito K, Alonso-Ríos R, Quiroz-García B, Rojas-Aguilar A, Díaz D, Jiménez-Barbero J, Cuevas G. Enthalpic nature of the CH/pi interaction involved in the recognition of carbohydrates by aromatic compounds, confirmed by a novel interplay of NMR, calorimetry, and theoretical calculations. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 131:18129-38. [PMID: 19928848 DOI: 10.1021/ja903950t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Specific interactions between molecules, including those produced by a given solute, and the surrounding solvent are essential to drive molecular recognition processes. A simple molecule such as benzene is capable of recognizing and differentiating among very similar entities, such as methyl 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-methyl-alpha-D-galactopyranoside (alpha-Me(5)Gal), methyl 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-methyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside (beta-Me(5)Gal), 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-acetyl-beta-D-galactopyranose (beta-Ac(5)Gal), and methyl 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-methyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside (alpha-Me(5)Man). In order to determine if these complexes are formed, the interaction energy between benzene and the different carbohydrates was determined, using Calvet microcalorimetry, as the enthalpy of solvation. These enthalpy values were -89.0 +/- 2.0, -88.7 +/- 5.5, -132.5 +/- 6.2, and -78.8 +/- 3.9 kJ mol(-1) for the four complexes, respectively. Characterization of the different complexes was completed by establishing the molecular region where the interaction takes place using NMR. It was determined that beta-Me(5)Gal is stabilized by the CH/pi interaction produced by the nonpolar region of the carbohydrate on the alpha face. In contrast, alpha-Me(5)Man is not specifically solvated by benzene and does not present any stacking interaction. Although alpha-Me(5)Gal has a geometry similar to that of its epimer, the obtained NMR data seem to indicate that the axial methoxy group at the anomeric position increases the distance of the benzene molecules from the pyranose ring. Substitution of the methoxy groups by acetate moieties, as in beta-Ac(5)Gal, precludes the approach of benzene to produce the CH/pi interaction. In fact, the elevated stabilization energy of beta-Ac(5)Gal is probably due to the interaction between benzene and the methyl groups of the acetyls. Therefore, methoxy and acetyl substituents have different effects on the protons of the pyranose ring.
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- Karla Ramírez-Gualito
- Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 70213, 04510 Coyoacán, Circuito Exterior, México D.F., México.
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Kato K, Yamaguchi Y, Arata Y. Stable-isotope-assisted NMR approaches to glycoproteins using immunoglobulin G as a model system. Prog Nucl Magn Reson Spectrosc 2010; 56:346-59. [PMID: 20633358 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2010.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2009] [Accepted: 12/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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- Koichi Kato
- Institute for Molecular Science and Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan.
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Banerjee A, Mikhailova E, Cheley S, Gu LQ, Montoya M, Nagaoka Y, Gouaux E, Bayley H. Molecular bases of cyclodextrin adapter interactions with engineered protein nanopores. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:8165-70. [PMID: 20400691 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914229107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Engineered protein pores have several potential applications in biotechnology: as sensor elements in stochastic detection and ultrarapid DNA sequencing, as nanoreactors to observe single-molecule chemistry, and in the construction of nano- and micro-devices. One important class of pores contains molecular adapters, which provide internal binding sites for small molecules. Mutants of the alpha-hemolysin (alphaHL) pore that bind the adapter beta-cyclodextrin (betaCD) approximately 10(4) times more tightly than the wild type have been obtained. We now use single-channel electrical recording, protein engineering including unnatural amino acid mutagenesis, and high-resolution x-ray crystallography to provide definitive structural information on these engineered protein nanopores in unparalleled detail.
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Kövér KE, Szilágyi L, Batta G, Uhrín D, Jiménez-Barbero J. Biomolecular Recognition by Oligosaccharides and Glycopeptides: The NMR Point of View. Comprehensive Natural Products II 2010:197-246. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-008045382-8.00193-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
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Alberti A, Macciantelli D, Naggi A, Urso E, Torri G, Vismara E. Electrochemical Characterisation of 6-Iodomaltose, 6′-Iodomaltose and 6-Iodomaltotriose on a Silver Cathode and Their One-Pot Electrochemical Dimerisation to New Mixed O/C Maltotetraose and Maltohexaose Mimics. Chemistry 2009; 15:8005-8014. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Supramolecular chemistry has expanded dramatically in recent years both in terms of potential applications and in its relevance to analogous biological systems. The formation and function of supramolecular complexes occur through a multiplicity of often difficult to differentiate noncovalent forces. The aim of this Review is to describe the crucial interaction mechanisms in context, and thus classify the entire subject. In most cases, organic host-guest complexes have been selected as examples, but biologically relevant problems are also considered. An understanding and quantification of intermolecular interactions is of importance both for the rational planning of new supramolecular systems, including intelligent materials, as well as for developing new biologically active agents.
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- Hans-Jörg Schneider
- Organische Chemie, Universität des Saarlandes, 66041 Saarbrücken, Deutschland.
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Tsuzuki S, Uchimaru T, Mikami M. Magnitude and nature of carbohydrate-aromatic interactions: ab initio calculations of fucose-benzene complex. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:5617-21. [PMID: 19331351 DOI: 10.1021/jp8093726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The stable geometries of fucose-benzene complex and the stabilization energies by formation of the complex (E(form)) were studied by ab initio molecular orbital calculations. The benzene ring has close contact with an O-H or C-H bond of fucose in the optimized geometries (OH/pi hydrogen-bonded structures and CH/pi contact structures). The E(form) calculated for the most stable OH/pi hydrogen-bonded structure was -5.1 kcal/mol. The E(form) calculated for the most stable CH/pi contact structure was -4.5 kcal/mol, which shows that significant attraction exists between the nonpolar surface of fucose and a benzene. The E(form) is close to the interaction energies in typical hydrogen-bonded complexes. A few nearly isoenergetic CH/pi contact structures were found by the calculations, which suggests that the directionality of the carbohydrate-aromatic interaction is weak. The dispersion interaction is the major source of the attraction in the complex. The electrostatic contributions to the attraction are relatively small. Although the size of the interaction energy is not largely different from that of typical hydrogen bonds, the nature of the carbohydrate-aromatic interaction, which is sometimes denoted as a CH/pi hydrogen bond, is completely different from that of typical hydrogen bonds, which have strong directionality due to the strong electrostatic interactions.
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- Seiji Tsuzuki
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan.
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Su Z, Cocinero EJ, Stanca-Kaposta EC, Davis BG, Simons JP. Carbohydrate–aromatic interactions: A computational and IR spectroscopic investigation of the complex, methyl α-l-fucopyranoside·toluene, isolated in the gas phase. Chem Phys Lett 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.02.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Fritzinger B, Moreels I, Lommens P, Koole R, Hens Z, Martins JC. In Situ Observation of Rapid Ligand Exchange in Colloidal Nanocrystal Suspensions Using Transfer NOE Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:3024-32. [DOI: 10.1021/ja809436y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Bernd Fritzinger
- NMR and Structure Analysis Unit, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S12, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, and Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, NL-3508 TH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NMR and Structure Analysis Unit, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S12, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, and Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, NL-3508 TH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NMR and Structure Analysis Unit, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S12, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, and Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, NL-3508 TH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NMR and Structure Analysis Unit, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S12, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, and Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, NL-3508 TH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NMR and Structure Analysis Unit, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S12, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, and Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, NL-3508 TH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NMR and Structure Analysis Unit, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S12, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, and Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, NL-3508 TH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Protein-carbohydrate interactions play an important role in many biologically important processes. The recognition is mediated by a number of noncovalent interactions, including an interaction between the alpha-face of the carbohydrate and the aromatic side chain of the protein. To elucidate this interaction, it has been studied in the context of a beta-hairpin in aqueous solution, in which the interaction can be investigated in the absence of other cooperative noncovalent interactions. In this beta-hairpin system, both the aromatic side chain and the carbohydrate were varied in an effort to gain greater insight into the driving force and magnitude of the carbohydrate-pi interaction. The magnitude of the interaction was found to vary from -0.5 to -0.8 kcal/mol, depending on the nature of the aromatic ring and the carbohydrate. Replacement of the aromatic ring with an aliphatic group resulted in a decrease in interaction energy to -0.1 kcal/mol, providing evidence for the contribution of CH-pi interactions to the driving force. These findings demonstrate the significance of carbohydrate-pi interactions within biological systems and also their utility as a molecular recognition element in designed systems.
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- Zachary R Laughrey
- Department of Chemistry, CB 3290, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Díaz MD, Fernández-alonso MDC, Cuevas G, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-barbero J. On the role of aromatic-sugar interactions in the molecular recognition of carbohydrates: A 3D view by using NMR. PURE APPL CHEM 2008; 80:1827-35. [DOI: 10.1351/pac200880081827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This revision describes an up-to-date review of our efforts to investigate the interaction of carbohydrates with aromatic moieties at different levels of complexity. Protein-sugar interactions have been studied using NMR experiments on a variety of hevein/chitooligosaccharide systems. In addition, NMR and computational methods have also been used to evaluate the interaction of simple aromatic entities with simple monosaccharides. In between, the stacking features of aromatic-containing glycomolecules have also been described by using an analogous experimental-theoretical approach.
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The C-type lectin dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule 3-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) is found on the surface of dendritic cells. It can mediate adhesion between dendritic cells and T lymphocytes and facilitate antigen capture and presentation. Many pathogens can exploit DC-SIGN binding for nefarious purposes. For example, DC-SIGN can facilitate the dissemination of viruses, like HIV-1. Alternatively, some microbes (e.g., Mycobacterium tuberculosis) use their ability to interact with DC-SIGN to evade immune detection. The diverse roles attributed to DC-SIGN provide impetus to identify ligands that can be used to explore its different functions. Such compounds also could serve as therapeutic leads. Most of the DC-SIGN ligands studied previously are mannose- or fucose-derived monosaccharides or oligosaccharides with inhibitory constants in the range of 0.1-10 mM. To identify monovalent ligands with more powerful DC-SIGN blocking properties, we devised a high-throughput fluorescence-based competition assay. This assay afforded potent non-carbohydrate, small molecule inhibitors (IC50 values of 1.6-10 microM). These compounds block not only DC-SIGN-carbohydrate interactions but also DC-SIGN-mediated cell adhesion. Thus, we anticipate that these non-carbohydrate inhibitors can be used to illuminate the role of DC-SIGN in pathogenesis and immune function.
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- M. Jack Borrok
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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Carbohydrate-protein interactions are frequently characterized by dissociation constants in the microM to mM range. This is normally associated with fast dissociation rates of the corresponding complexes, in turn leading to fast exchange on the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical shift time scale and on the NMR relaxation time scale. Therefore, NMR experiments that take advantage of fast exchange are well suited to study carbohydrate-protein interactions. In general, it is possible to analyze ligand binding by observing either protein signals or ligand resonances. Because most receptor proteins to which carbohydrates bind are rather large with molecular weights significantly exceeding 30 kDa, the analysis of the corresponding protein spectra is not trivial, and only very few studies have been addressing this issue so far. We, therefore, focus on NMR experiments that employ observation of free ligand, that is, carbohydrate signals to analyze the bound state. Two types of NMR experiments have been extremely valuable to analyze carbohydrate-protein interactions at atomic resolution. Whereas transferred nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) experiments deliver bioactive conformations of carbohydrates binding to proteins, saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR spectra provide binding epitopes and valuable information about the binding thermodynamics and kinetics. We demonstrate the power of a combined transfer NOE/STD NMR approach for the analysis of carbohydrate-protein complexes using selected examples.
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- Jesus Angulo
- Instituto de Investigacionies Químicas (CSIC-US), Sevilla, Spain
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Screen J, Stanca-kaposta E, Gamblin D, Liu B, Macleod N, Snoek L, Davis B, Simons J. IR-Spectral Signatures of Aromatic–Sugar Complexes: Probing Carbohydrate–Protein Interactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 119:3718-22. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200605116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Screen J, Stanca-Kaposta EC, Gamblin DP, Liu B, Macleod NA, Snoek LC, Davis BG, Simons JP. IR-Spectral Signatures of Aromatic–Sugar Complexes: Probing Carbohydrate–Protein Interactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 46:3644-8. [PMID: 17385782 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200605116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- James Screen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK
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Terraneo G, Potenza D, Canales A, Jiménez-Barbero J, Baldridge KK, Bernardi A. A Simple Model System for the Study of Carbohydrate−Aromatic Interactions. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 129:2890-900. [PMID: 17309255 DOI: 10.1021/ja066633g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A molecular scaffold was identified which enables the establishment of intramolecular interactions between a monosaccharide and a nearby phenyl ring. A group of molecules containing four different monosaccharides (glucose, galactose, N-acetyl-glucosamine, and N-acetyl-galactosamine) was synthesized and used to investigate the extent and nature of this carbohydrate-arene interaction, as well as the effect on the overall 3D structure of the molecules involved. The sugar-aromatic distance was evaluated by rigorous NMR studies supported by molecular modeling and found to be constant throughout the series, independent of the nature of the sugar and of the conformational behavior of the fragment connecting the two elements. Ab initio calculations at the B3LYP/DZV(2d,p) level of theory enable the analysis of the electronic nature of the interaction. The study shows that, given the opportunity, persistent intramolecular aromatic-sugar interactions can be established and can significantly influence overall molecular shape and energetics. These results have important implications in the design of structural mimics of oligosaccharides.
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- Giancarlo Terraneo
- Universita' di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale e Centro di Eccellenza CISI, via Venezian 21, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Stanca-Kaposta EC, Gamblin DP, Screen J, Liu B, Snoek LC, Davis BG, Simons JP. Carbohydrate molecular recognition: a spectroscopic investigation of carbohydrate–aromatic interactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2007; 9:4444-51. [PMID: 17690769 DOI: 10.1039/b704792d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The physical basis of carbohydrate molecular recognition at aromatic protein binding sites is explored by creating molecular complexes between a series of selected monosaccharides and toluene (as a truncated model for phenylalanine). They are formed at low temperatures under molecular beam conditions, and detected and characterized through mass-selected, infrared ion depletion spectroscopy-a strategy which exploits the extraordinary sensitivity of their vibrational signatures to the local hydrogen-bonded environment of their OH groups. The trial set of carbohydrates, alpha- and beta-anomers of glucose, galactose and fucose, reflects ligand fragments in naturally occurring protein-carbohydrate complexes and also allows an investigation of the effect of systematic structural changes, including the shape and extent of 'apolar' patches on the pyranose ring, removal of the OH on the exocyclic hydroxymethyl group, and removal of the aglycon. Bound complexes invariably form, establishing the general existence of intrinsic intermolecular potential minima. In most of the cases explored, comparison between recorded and computed vibrational spectra of the bound and free carbohydrates in the absence of solvent water molecules reveal that dispersion forces involving CH-pi interactions, which promote little if any distortion of the bound carbohydrate, predominate although complexes bound through specific OH-pi hydrogen-bonded interactions have also been identified. Since the complexes form at low temperatures in the absence of water, entropic contributions associated with the reorganization of surrounding water molecules, the essence of the proposed 'hydrophobic interaction', cannot contribute and other modes of binding drive the recognition of sugars by aromatic residues. Excitingly, some of the proposed structures mirror those found in naturally occurring protein-carbohydrate binding sites.
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- E Cristina Stanca-Kaposta
- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
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Chávez MI, Andreu C, Vidal P, Aboitiz N, Freire F, Groves P, Asensio JL, Asensio G, Muraki M, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. On the importance of carbohydrate-aromatic interactions for the molecular recognition of oligosaccharides by proteins: NMR studies of the structure and binding affinity of AcAMP2-like peptides with non-natural naphthyl and fluoroaromatic residues. Chemistry 2006; 11:7060-74. [PMID: 16220560 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200500367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The specific interaction of a variety of modified hevein domains to chitooligosaccharides has been studied by NMR spectroscopy in order to assess the importance of aromatic-carbohydrate interactions for the molecular recognition of neutral sugars. These mutant AcAMP2-like peptides, which have 4-fluoro-phenylalanine, tryptophan, or 2-naphthylalanine at the key interacting positions, have been prepared by solid-phase synthesis. Their three-dimensional structures, when bound to the chitin-derived trisaccharide, have been deduced by NMR spectroscopy. By using DYANA and restrained molecular dynamics simulations with the AMBER 5.0 force field, the three-dimensional structures of the protein-sugar complexes have been obtained. The thermodynamic analysis of the interactions that occur upon complex formation have also been carried out. Regarding binding affinity, the obtained data have permitted the deduction that the larger the aromatic group, the higher the association constant and the binding enthalpy. In all cases, entropy opposes binding. In contrast, deactivation of the aromatic rings by attaching fluorine atoms decreases the binding affinity, with a concomitant decrease in enthalpy. The role of the chemical nature of the aromatic ring for establishing sugar contacts has been thus evaluated.
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- M Isabel Chávez
- Department of Protein Structure and Function, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Aboitiz N, Vila-Perelló M, Groves P, Asensio JL, Andreu D, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. NMR and modeling studies of protein-carbohydrate interactions: synthesis, three-dimensional structure, and recognition properties of a minimum hevein domain with binding affinity for chitooligosaccharides. Chembiochem 2005; 5:1245-55. [PMID: 15368576 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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HEV32, a 32-residue, truncated hevein lacking eleven C-terminal amino acids, was synthesized by solid-phase methodology and correctly folded with three cysteine bridge pairs. The affinities of HEV32 for small chitin fragments--in the forms of N,N',N"-triacetylchitotriose ((GlcNAc)3) (millimolar) and N,N',N",N"',N"",N""'-hexaacetylchitohexaose ((GlcNAc)6) (micromolar)--as measured by NMR and fluorescence methods, are comparable with those of native hevein. The HEV32 ligand-binding process is enthalpy driven, while entropy opposes binding. The NMR structure of ligand-bound HEV32 in aqueous solution was determined to be highly similar to the NMR structure of ligand-bound hevein. Solvated molecular-dynamics simulations were performed in order to monitor the changes in side-chain conformation of the binding site of HEV32 and hevein upon interaction with ligands. The calculations suggest that the Trp21 side-chain orientation of HEV32 in the free form differs from that in the bound state; this agrees with fluorescence and thermodynamic data. HEV32 provides a simple molecular model for studying protein-carbohydrate interactions and for understanding the physiological relevance of small native hevein domains lacking C-terminal residues.
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- Nuria Aboitiz
- Department of Protein Structure and Function, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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A high-density coding system is essential to allow cells to communicate efficiently and swiftly through complex surface interactions. All the structural requirements for forming a wide array of signals with a system of minimal size are met by oligomers of carbohydrates. These molecules surpass amino acids and nucleotides by far in information-storing capacity and serve as ligands in biorecognition processes for the transfer of information. The results of work aiming to reveal the intricate ways in which oligosaccharide determinants of cellular glycoconjugates interact with tissue lectins and thereby trigger multifarious cellular responses (e.g. in adhesion or growth regulation) are teaching amazing lessons about the range of finely tuned activities involved. The ability of enzymes to generate an enormous diversity of biochemical signals is matched by receptor proteins (lectins), which are equally elaborate. The multiformity of lectins ensures accurate signal decoding and transmission. The exquisite refinement of both sides of the protein-carbohydrate recognition system turns the structural complexity of glycans--a demanding but essentially mastered problem for analytical chemistry--into a biochemical virtue. The emerging medical importance of protein-carbohydrate recognition, for example in combating infection and the spread of tumors or in targeting drugs, also explains why this interaction system is no longer below industrial radarscopes. Our review sketches the concept of the sugar code, with a solid description of the historical background. We also place emphasis on a distinctive feature of the code, that is, the potential of a carbohydrate ligand to adopt various defined shapes, each with its own particular ligand properties (differential conformer selection). Proper consideration of the structure and shape of the ligand enables us to envision the chemical design of potent binding partners for a target (in lectin-mediated drug delivery) or ways to block lectins of medical importance (in infection, tumor spread, or inflammation).
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- Hans-Joachim Gabius
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Tierärztliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Veterinärstrasse 13, 80539 Munich, Germany.
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Magnin D, Dumitriu S. Interactions Between Polysaccharides and Polypeptides. Polysaccharides 2004. [DOI: 10.1201/9781420030822.ch12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Bernardi A, Arosio D, Potenza D, Sánchez-Medina I, Mari S, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. Intramolecular Carbohydrate-Aromatic Interactions and Intermolecular van der Waals Interactions Enhance the Molecular Recognition Ability of GM1 Glycomimetics for Cholera Toxin. Chemistry 2004; 10:4395. [PMID: 15378617 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200400084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The design and synthesis of two GM1 glycomimetics, 6 and 7, and analysis of their conformation in the free state and when complexed to cholera toxin is described. These compounds, which include an (R)-cyclohexyllactic acid and an (R)-phenyllactic acid fragment, respectively, display significant affinity for cholera toxin. A detailed NMR spectroscopy study of the toxin/glycomimetic complexes, assisted by molecular modeling techniques, has allowed their interactions with the toxin to be explained at the atomic level. It is shown that intramolecular van der Waals and CH-pi carbohydrate-aromatic interactions define the conformational properties of 7, which adopts a three-dimensional structure significantly preorganized for proper interaction with the toxin. The exploitation of this kind of sugar-aromatic interaction, which is very well described in the context of carbohydrate/protein complexes, may open new avenues for the rational design of sugar mimics.
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- Anna Bernardi
- Università di Milano-Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale e Centro di Eccellenza CISI via Venezian 21, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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Neumann D, Lehr CM, Lenhof HP, Kohlbacher O. Computational modeling of the sugar-lectin interaction. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2004; 56:437-57. [PMID: 14969752 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2003.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2003] [Accepted: 10/14/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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In the last few years numerous experimental studies have shed light onto the details of the lectin-carbohydrate interaction. X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy have been used to elucidate the structures of lectins, sugars, and their complexes. In addition, an increasing number of experimental methods has been employed to determine the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of the binding process. Based on this experimental data, computational methods have been developed to model and predict these interactions. A plethora of techniques from Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry have been applied to the problem and current models achieve high-quality predictions. These successes are based on both new theoretical approaches and reliable experimental data. The aim of the present article is to outline the most relevant computational and experimental methods applied in the field of lectin-carbohydrate interaction and to give an overview of the current state of the art in the modeling of these interactions with a focus on plant lectins.
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- Dirk Neumann
- Center for Bioinformatics Saar, Bldg. 36.1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Ford MG, Weimar T, Köhli T, Woods RJ. Molecular dynamics simulations of galectin-1-oligosaccharide complexes reveal the molecular basis for ligand diversity. Proteins 2004; 53:229-40. [PMID: 14517974 PMCID: PMC4190840 DOI: 10.1002/prot.10428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Galectin-1 is a member of a protein family historically characterized by its ability to bind carbohydrates containing a terminal galactosyl residue. Galectin-1 is found in a variety of mammalian tissues as a homodimer of 14.5-kDa subunits. A number of developmental and regulatory processes have been attributed to the ability of galectin-1 to bind a variety of oligosaccharides containing the Gal-beta-(1,4)-GlcNAc (LacNAc(II)) sequence. To probe the origin of this permissive binding, solvated molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of several representative galectin-1-ligand complexes have been performed. Simulations of structurally defined complexes have validated the computational approach and expanded upon data obtained from X-ray crystallography and surface plasmon resonance measurements. The MD results indicate that a set of anchoring interactions between the galectin-1 carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) and the LacNAc core are maintained for a diverse set of ligands and that substituents at the nonreducing terminus of the oligosaccharide extend into the remainder of a characteristic surface groove. The anionic nature of ligands exhibiting relatively high affinities for galectin-1 implicates electrostatic interactions in ligand selectivity, which is confirmed by a generalized Born analysis of the complexes. The results suggest that the search for a single endogenous ligand or function for this lectin may be inappropriate and instead support a more general role for galectin-1, in which the lectin is able to crosslink heterogeneous oligosaccharides displayed on a variety of cell surfaces. Such binding promiscuity provides an explanation for the variety of adhesion phenomena mediated by galectin-1.
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- Michael G. Ford
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 220 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602
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- Institute for Chemistry, Medical University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry, Medical University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 220 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602
- Correspondence to: Robert J. Woods, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 220 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602.
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Siebert HC, Jiménez-Barbero J, André S, Kaltner H, Gabius HJ. Describing topology of bound ligand by transferred nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy and molecular modeling. Methods Enzymol 2003; 362:417-34. [PMID: 12968380 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(03)01029-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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- Hans-Christian Siebert
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Veterinarstrasse 13, Munich D-80539, Germany
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Takeda M, Terasawa H, Sakakura M, Yamaguchi Y, Kajiwara M, Kawashima H, Miyasaka M, Shimada I. Hyaluronan recognition mode of CD44 revealed by cross-saturation and chemical shift perturbation experiments. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:43550-5. [PMID: 12928429 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308199200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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CD44 is the main cell surface receptor for hyaluronic acid (HA) and contains a functional HA-binding domain (HABD) composed of a Link module with N- and C-terminal extensions. The contact residues of human CD44 HABD for HA have been determined by cross-saturation experiments and mapped on the topology of CD44 HABD, which we elucidated by NMR. The contact residues are distributed in both the consensus fold for the Link module superfamily and the additional structural elements consisting of the flanking regions. Interestingly, the contact residues exhibit small changes in chemical shift upon HA binding. In contrast, the residues with large chemical shift changes are localized in the C-terminal extension and the first alpha-helix and are generally inconsistent with the contact residues. These results suggest that, upon ligand binding, the C-terminal extension and the first alpha-helix undergo significant conformational changes, which may account for the broad ligand specificity of CD44 HABD.
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- Mitsuhiro Takeda
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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The conformations of a series of derivatives of the disaccharide α-L-fucopyranosyl-(1[Formula: see text]3)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranoside, part of the Lex determinant, were studied by molecular modelling using the MM3* forcefield and by 1H NMR spectroscopy. Unusually shielded O-benzyl protons were observed in the 1H NMR spectrum of phenyl 2,3,4-tri-O-benzyl-α-L-fucopyranosyl-(1[Formula: see text]3)-2-deoxy-2-phthalimido-1-thio-α-D-glucopyranoside and assigned to the 2-O-benzyl group. This observation was explained by a shift in the population of the conformational mixture present about the glycosidic linkage from the positive Ψ region in the unsubstituted disaccharide to the negative Ψ region induced by π-stacking between the phthalimide and the 2-O-benzyl phenyl ring. The experimental nuclear Overhauser enhancements confirm the accuracy of the calculations.Key words: disaccharide, conformation, π-stacking, Lex determinant, NOE measurements, MM3 calculations.
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