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ArticleNature biotechnology2012

A bacterial glycosidase enables mannose-6-phosphate modification and improved cellular uptake of yeast-produced recombinant human lysosomal enzymes.

Petra Tiels, Ekaterina Baranova, Kathleen Piens, Charlotte De Visscher, Gwenda Pynaert, Wim Nerinckx, Jan Stout, Franck Fudalej, Paco Hulpiau, Simon Tännler and 6 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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16 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Petra TielsUnit for Medical Biotechnology, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.
Ekaterina Baranova
Kathleen Piens
Charlotte De Visscher
Gwenda Pynaert
Wim Nerinckx
Jan Stout
Franck Fudalej
Paco Hulpiau
Simon Tännler
Steven Geysens
Annelies Van Hecke
Albena Valevska
Wouter Vervecken
Han Remaut
Nico Callewaert
VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology · BEGhent University · BEVIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology · BEVrije Universiteit Brussel · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lysosomal storage diseases are treated with human lysosomal enzymes produced in mammalian cells. Such enzyme therapeutics contain relatively low levels of mannose-6-phosphate, which is required to target them to the lysosomes of patient cells. Here we describe a method for increasing mannose-6-phosphate modification of lysosomal enzymes produced in yeast. We identified a glycosidase from C. cellulans that 'uncaps' N-glycans modified by yeast-type mannose-Pi-6-mannose to generate mammalian-type N-glycans with a mannose-6-phosphate substitution. Determination of the crystal structure of this glycosidase provided insight into its substrate specificity. We used this uncapping enzyme together with α-mannosidase to produce in yeast a form of the Pompe disease enzyme α-glucosidase rich in mannose-6-phosphate. Compared with the currently used therapeutic version, this form of α-glucosidase was more efficiently taken up by fibroblasts from Pompe disease patients, and it more effectively reduced cardiac muscular glycogen storage in a mouse model of the disease.

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alpha-GlucosidasesAnimalsArthrobacterBacterial ProteinsBiological Transport, ActiveBiotechnologyCatalytic DomainDisease Models, AnimalGlycogen Storage Disease Type IIGlycoside HydrolasesHumansLysosomal Storage DiseasesLysosomesMannosephosphatesMiceMice, Knockoutalpha-GlucosidasesBacterial ProteinsGlycoside Hydrolasesmannose-6-phosphateMannosephosphatesRecombinant Proteins

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PMID23159880
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