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Marcos-Silva L, Ricardo S, Chen K, Blixt O, Arigi E, Pereira D, Høgdall E, Mandel U, Bennett EP, Vakhrushev SY, David L, Clausen H. A novel monoclonal antibody to a defined peptide epitope in MUC16. Glycobiology 2015. [PMID: 26201951 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwv056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
The MUC16 mucin is overexpressed and aberrantly glycosylated in ovarian carcinomas. Immunodetection of circulating MUC16 is one of the most used cancer biomarker assays, but existing antibodies to MUC16 fail to distinguish normal and aberrant cancer glycoforms. Although all antibodies react with the tandem-repeat region, their epitopes appear to be conformational dependent and not definable by a short peptide. Aberrant glycoforms of MUC16 may constitute promising targets for diagnostic and immunotherapeutic intervention, and it is important to develop well-defined immunogens for induction of potent MUC16 immunity. Here, we developed a MUC16 vaccine based on a 1.7TR (264 aa) expressed in Escherichia coli and in vitro enzymatically glycosylated to generate the aberrant cancer-associated glycoform Tn. This vaccine elicited a potent serum IgG response in mice and we identified two major immunodominant linear peptide epitopes within the tandem repeat. We developed one monoclonal antibody, 5E11, reactive with a minimum epitope with the sequence FNTTER. This sequence contains potential N- and O-glycosylation sites and, interestingly, glycosylation blocked binding of 5E11. In immunochemistry of ovarian benign and cancer lesions, 5E11 showed similar reactivity as traditional MUC16 antibodies, suggesting that the epitope is not efficiently glycosylated. The study provides a vaccine design and immunodominant MUC16 TR epitopes.
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- Lara Marcos-Silva
- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark
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Jacquez P, Avila G, Boone K, Altiyev A, Puschhof J, Sauter R, Arigi E, Ruiz B, Peng X, Almeida I, Sherman M, Xiao C, Sun J. The Disulfide Bond Cys255-Cys279 in the Immunoglobulin-Like Domain of Anthrax Toxin Receptor 2 Is Required for Membrane Insertion of Anthrax Protective Antigen Pore. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0130832. [PMID: 26107617 PMCID: PMC4479931 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Anthrax toxin receptors act as molecular clamps or switches that control anthrax toxin entry, pH-dependent pore formation, and translocation of enzymatic moieties across the endosomal membranes. We previously reported that reduction of the disulfide bonds in the immunoglobulin-like (Ig) domain of the anthrax toxin receptor 2 (ANTXR2) inhibited the function of the protective antigen (PA) pore. In the present study, the disulfide linkage in the Ig domain was identified as Cys255-Cys279 and Cys230-Cys315. Specific disulfide bond deletion mutants were achieved by replacing Cys residues with Ala residues. Deletion of the disulfide bond C255-C279, but not C230-C315, inhibited the PA pore-induced release of the fluorescence dyes from the liposomes, suggesting that C255-C279 is essential for PA pore function. Furthermore, we found that deletion of C255-C279 did not affect PA prepore-to-pore conversion, but inhibited PA pore membrane insertion by trapping the PA membrane-inserting loops in proteinaceous hydrophobic pockets. Fluorescence spectra of Trp59, a residue adjacent to the PA-binding motif in von Willebrand factor A (VWA) domain of ANTXR2, showed that deletion of C255-C279 resulted in a significant conformational change on the receptor ectodomain. The disulfide deletion-induced conformational change on the VWA domain was further confirmed by single-particle 3D reconstruction of the negatively stained PA-receptor heptameric complexes. Together, the biochemical and structural data obtained in this study provides a mechanistic insight into the role of the receptor disulfide bond C255-C279 in anthrax toxin action. Manipulation of the redox states of the receptor, specifically targeting to C255-C279, may become a novel strategy to treat anthrax.
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- Pedro Jacquez
- Department of Biological Sciences & Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Bioinformatics Program of University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Bioinformatics Program of University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences & Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences & Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences & Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences & Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- China National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, 430070, P. R. China
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- Department of Biological Sciences & Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 77555, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
- * E-mail: (CX); (JS)
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- Department of Biological Sciences & Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79968, United States of America
- * E-mail: (CX); (JS)
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Eaves-Pyles T, Patel J, Arigi E, Cong Y, Cao A, Garg N, Dhiman M, Pyles RB, Arulanandam B, Miller AL, Popov VL, Soong L, Carlsen ED, Coletta C, Szabo C, Almeida IC. Immunomodulatory and antibacterial effects of cystatin 9 against Francisella tularensis. Mol Med 2013; 19:263-75. [PMID: 23922243 DOI: 10.2119/molmed.2013.00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [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] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Cystatin 9 (CST9) is a member of the type 2 cysteine protease inhibitor family, which has been shown to have immunomodulatory effects that restrain inflammation, but its functions against bacterial infections are unknown. Here, we report that purified human recombinant (r)CST9 protects against the deadly bacterium Francisella tularensis (Ft) in vitro and in vivo. Macrophages infected with the Ft human pathogen Schu 4 (S4), then given 50 pg of rCST9 exhibited significantly decreased intracellular bacterial replication and increased killing via preventing the escape of S4 from the phagosome. Further, rCST9 induced autophagy in macrophages via the regulation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathways. rCST9 promoted the upregulation of macrophage proteins involved in antiinflammation and antiapoptosis, while restraining proinflammatory-associated proteins. Interestingly, the viability and virulence of S4 also was decreased directly by rCST9. In a mouse model of Ft inhalation, rCST9 significantly decreased organ bacterial burden and improved survival, which was not accompanied by excessive cytokine secretion or subsequent immune cell migration. The current report is the first to show the immunomodulatory and antimicrobial functions of rCST9 against Ft. We hypothesize that the attenuation of inflammation by rCST9 may be exploited for therapeutic purposes during infection.
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- Tonyia Eaves-Pyles
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA.
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Yang Z, Bennett EP, Jørgensen B, Drew DP, Arigi E, Mandel U, Ulvskov P, Levery SB, Clausen H, Petersen BL. Toward stable genetic engineering of human O-glycosylation in plants. Plant Physiol 2012; 160:450-63. [PMID: 22791304 PMCID: PMC3440218 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.198200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2012] [Accepted: 07/11/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Glycosylation is the most abundant and complex posttranslational modification to be considered for recombinant production of therapeutic proteins. Mucin-type (N-acetylgalactosamine [GalNAc]-type) O-glycosylation is found in eumetazoan cells but absent in plants and yeast, making these cell types an obvious choice for de novo engineering of this O-glycosylation pathway. We previously showed that transient implementation of O-glycosylation capacity in plants requires introduction of the synthesis of the donor substrate UDP-GalNAc and one or more polypeptide GalNAc-transferases for incorporating GalNAc residues into proteins. Here, we have stably engineered O-glycosylation capacity in two plant cell systems, soil-grown Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Bright Yellow-2 suspension culture cells. Efficient GalNAc O-glycosylation of two stably coexpressed substrate O-glycoproteins was obtained, but a high degree of proline hydroxylation and hydroxyproline-linked arabinosides, on a mucin (MUC1)-derived substrate, was also observed. Addition of the prolyl 4-hydroxylase inhibitor 2,2-dipyridyl, however, effectively suppressed proline hydroxylation and arabinosylation of MUC1 in Bright Yellow-2 cells. In summary, stably engineered mammalian type O-glycosylation was established in transgenic plants, demonstrating that plants may serve as host cells for the production of recombinant O-glycoproteins. However, the present stable implementation further strengthens the notion that elimination of endogenous posttranslational modifications may be needed for the production of protein therapeutics.
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- Zhang Yang
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark (Z.Y.); Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (D.P.D., P.U., B.L.P.); Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (B.J.); and Center for Glycomics, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark (Z.Y., E.P.B., E.A., U.M., S.B.L., H.C.)
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Arigi E, Blixt O, Buschard K, Clausen H, Levery SB. Design of a covalently bonded glycosphingolipid microarray. Glycoconj J 2011; 29:1-12. [PMID: 22102144 DOI: 10.1007/s10719-011-9359-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2011] [Revised: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) are well known ubiquitous constituents of all eukaryotic cell membranes, yet their normal biological functions are not fully understood. As with other glycoconjugates and saccharides, solid phase display on microarrays potentially provides an effective platform for in vitro study of their functional interactions. However, with few exceptions, the most widely used microarray platforms display only the glycan moiety of GSLs, which not only ignores potential modulating effects of the lipid aglycone, but inherently limits the scope of application, excluding, for example, the major classes of plant and fungal GSLs. In this work, a prototype "universal" GSL-based covalent microarray has been designed, and preliminary evaluation of its potential utility in assaying protein-GSL binding interactions investigated. An essential step in development involved the enzymatic release of the fatty acyl moiety of the ceramide aglycone of selected mammalian GSLs with sphingolipid N-deacylase (SCDase). Derivatization of the free amino group of a typical lyso-GSL, lyso-G(M1), with a prototype linker assembled from succinimidyl-[(N-maleimidopropionamido)-diethyleneglycol] ester and 2-mercaptoethylamine, was also tested. Underivatized or linker-derivatized lyso-GSL were then immobilized on N-hydroxysuccinimide- or epoxide-activated glass microarray slides and probed with carbohydrate binding proteins of known or partially known specificities (i.e., cholera toxin B-chain; peanut agglutinin, a monoclonal antibody to sulfatide, Sulph 1; and a polyclonal antiserum reactive to asialo-G(M2)). Preliminary evaluation of the method indicated successful immobilization of the GSLs, and selective binding of test probes. The potential utility of this methodology for designing covalent microarrays that incorporate GSLs for serodiagnosis is discussed.
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- Emma Arigi
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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A method for generation of novel fluorocarbon derivatives of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) with high affinity for fluorocarbon phases has been developed, and their potential applications to mass spectrometry (MS)-based methodologies for glycosphingolipidomics have been investigated. Sphingolipid ceramide N-deacylase (SCDase) is used to remove the fatty acid from the ceramide moiety, after which a fluorocarbon-rich substituent (F-Tag) is incorporated at the free amine of the sphingoid. In initial trials, a neutral GSL, globotriaosylceramide (Gb(3)Cer), three purified bovine brain gangliosides, and four fungal glycosylinositol phosphorylceramides (GIPCs) were de-N-acylated, derivatized by prototype F-Tags, and recovered by solid phase extraction on fluorocarbon-derivatized silica (F-SPE). The efficacy of SCDase treatment of GIPCs was here demonstrated for the first time. Compatibility with subsequent per-N,O-methylation was established for the F-tagged Gb(3) Cer and purified gangliosides, and extensive mass spectra (MS(1) and MS(2)) consistent with all of the expected products were acquired. The potential use of F-tagged derivatives for a comprehensive MS based profiling application was then demonstrated on a crude ganglioside mixture extracted from bovine brain. Finally, a simple trial in microarray format demonstrated fixation of F-tagged G(M1) ganglioside to a fluorous glass surface, with the glycan intact and available for interaction with a fluorescent derivative of cholera toxin B chain. The methods described thus provide a new avenue for rapid GSL recovery or cleanup, potentially compatible with a variety of platforms for mass spectrometric profiling and structure analysis, as well as parallel analysis of functional interactions.
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- Yunsen Li
- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824-3598, USA
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Arigi E, Singh S, Kahlili AH, Winter HC, Goldstein IJ, Levery SB. Characterization of neutral and acidic glycosphingolipids from the lectin-producing mushroom, Polyporus squamosus. Glycobiology 2007; 17:754-66. [PMID: 17395693 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwm035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 11/15/2022] Open
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The polypore mushroom Polyporus squamosus is the source of a lectin that exhibits a general affinity for terminal beta-galactosides, but appears to have an extended carbohydrate-binding site with high affinity and strict specificity for the nonreducing terminal trisaccharide sequence NeuAcalpha2 --> 6Galbeta1 --> 4Glc/GlcNAc. In considering the possibility that the lectin's in vivo function could involve interaction with an endogenous glycoconjugate, it would clearly be helpful to identify candidate ligands among various classes of carbohydrate-containing materials expressed by P. squamosus. Since evidence has been accumulating that glycosphingolipids (GSLs) may serve as key ligands for some endogenous lectins in animal species, possible similar roles for fungal GSLs could be considered. For this study, total lipids were extracted from mature fruiting body of P. squamosus. Multistep fractionation yielded a major monohexosylceramide (CMH) component and three major glycosylinositol phosphorylceramides (GIPCs) from the neutral and acidic lipids, respectively. These were characterized by a variety of techniques as required, including one- and two-dimensional (1)H- and (13)C-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy; electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS, tandem-MS/collision-induced decay-MS, and ion trap-MS(n)); and component and methylation linkage analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The CMH was determined to be glucosylceramide having a typical ceramide consisting of 2-hydroxy fatty-N-acylated (4E,8E)-9-methyl-sphinga-4,8-dienine. The GIPCs were identified as Manalpha1 --> 2Ins1-P-1Cer (Ps-1), Galbeta1 --> 6Manalpha1 --> 2Ins1-P-1Cer (Ps-2), and Manalpha1 --> 3Fucalpha1 --> 2Galalpha1 --> 6Galbeta1 --> 6Manalpha1 -->2Ins1-P-1Cer (Ps-5), respectively (where Ins = myo-inositol, P = phosphodiester, and Cer = ceramide consisting mainly of long-chain 2-hydroxy and 2,3-dihydroxy fatty-N-acylated 4-hydroxy-sphinganines). Of these GSLs, Ps-2 could potentially interact with P. squamosus lectin, and further investigations will focus on determining the binding affinity, if any, of the lectin for the GIPCs isolated from this fungus.
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- Emma Arigi
- Department of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824-3598, USA
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