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ArticleACS chemical biology2012

A sialyltransferase mutant with decreased donor hydrolysis and reduced sialidase activities for directly sialylating LewisX.

Go Sugiarto, Kam Lau, Jingyao Qu, Yanhong Li, Sunghyuk Lim, Shengmao Mu, James B Ames, Andrew J Fisher, Xi Chen

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers.

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Go SugiartoDepartment of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, 95616, United States.
Kam Lau
Jingyao Qu
Yanhong Li
Sunghyuk Lim
Shengmao Mu
James B Ames
Andrew J Fisher
Xi Chen
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

ZWITTERION SURFACTANT DDMAB FOR IMPROV STABIL OF PROTEINP41RR001209 · NCRR · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GONZALEZ, ANA M · 1985 to 2011
$38.9M
MEMBRANE TARGETING CALCIUM SENSORS IN VISIONR01EY012347 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MD BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE · PI AMES, JAMES B · 1999 to 2023
$6.9M
Studies of Naturally Occurring Structurally Modified CarbohydratesR01GM076360 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CHEN, XI · 2006 to 2010
$1.9M
Oligosaccharides as antimicrobials and prebioticsR01HD065122 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CHEN, XI · 2010 to 2013
$1.8M
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR001209NCRR NIH HHS P41RR001209NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012347NEI NIH HHS R01EY012347NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD065122NICHD NIH HHS R01HD065122NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076360NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM076360
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Abstract

Glycosyltransferases are important catalysts for enzymatic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex carbohydrates and glycoconjugates. The glycosylation efficiencies of wild-type glycosyltransferases vary considerably when different acceptor substrates are used. Using a multifunctional Pasteurella multocida sialyltransferase 1 (PmST1) as an example, we show here that the sugar nucleotide donor hydrolysis activity of glycosyltransferases contributes significantly to the low yield of glycosylation when a poor acceptor substrate is used. With a protein crystal structure-based rational design, we generated a single mutant (PmST1 M144D) with decreased donor hydrolysis activity without significantly affecting its α2-3-sialylation activity when a poor fucose-containing acceptor substrate was used. The single mutant also has a drastically decreased α2-3-sialidase activity. X-ray and NMR structural studies revealed that unlike the wild-type PmST1, which changes to a closed conformation once a donor binds, the M144D mutant structure adopts an open conformation even in the presence of the donor substrate. The PmST1 M144D mutant with decreased donor hydrolysis and reduced sialidase activity has been used as a powerful catalyst for efficient chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex sialyl Lewis(x) antigens containing different sialic acid forms. This work sheds new light on the effect of donor hydrolysis activity of glycosyltransferases on glycosyltransferase-catalyzed reactions and provides a novel strategy to improve glycosyltransferase substrate promiscuity by decreasing its donor hydrolysis activity.

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Crystallography, X-RayEnzyme ActivationHydrolysisLewis X AntigenMutationNeuraminidasePasteurella multocidaSialyltransferasesLewis X AntigenNeuraminidaseSialyltransferases

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