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ArticleGlycobiology2010

Characterization of the secondary binding sites of Maclura pomifera agglutinin by glycan array and crystallographic analyses.

Jingwei Huang, Zan Xu, Die Wang, Craig M Ogata, Krzysztof Palczewski, Xavier Lee, N Martin Young

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Article in Glycobiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jingwei HuangDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 2109 Adelbert Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Zan Xu
Die Wang
Craig M Ogata
Krzysztof Palczewski
Xavier Lee
N Martin Young
Cleveland Clinic · USCase Western Reserve University · USArgonne National Laboratory · USCleveland Foundation · US

Funding

Structural Basis of Immune Recognition of Glycosylated AntigensU54GM062116 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI FINN, M.G. · 2001 to 2010
$80.3M
STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORSR01GM079191 · NIGMS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI PALCZEWSKI, KRZYSZTOF · 2007 to 2010
$845k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS GM079191NIGMS NIH HHS GM62116
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Maclura pomifera agglutinin (MPA) recognizes the T-antigen disaccharide Galβ1,3GalNAc mainly through interaction of the α-GalNAc moiety with its primary site, but the interactions of the two flanking subsites A and B with aglycones and substituents other than Gal, respectively, are not well understood. We therefore characterized the specificity of MPA in more detail by glycan microarray analysis and determined the crystal structures of MPA without ligand and in complexes with Galβ1,3GalNAc and p-nitrophenyl α-GalNAc. In both sugar complexes, pairs of ligands created inter-tetramer hydrogen-bond bridging networks. While subsite A showed increased affinity for hydrophobic aglycones, it also accommodated several sugar substituents. Notably, a GalNAc-O-tripeptide, a Tn-antigen mimic, showed lower affinity than these compounds in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) experiments. The glycan array data that showed subsite B accepted compounds in which the O3 position of the GalNAc was substituted with various sugars other than Gal, but substitutions at O6 led to inactivity. Additions to the Gal moiety of the disaccharide also had only small effects on reactivity. These results are all compatible with the features seen in the crystal structures.

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Antigens, Tumor-Associated, CarbohydrateBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayDisaccharidesMacluraPlant LectinsStructure-Activity RelationshipAntigens, Tumor-Associated, CarbohydrateDisaccharidesPlant LectinsThomsen-Friedenreich antigen

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PMID20826825
PMCPMC3003548
OpenAlexW2114909128

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