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ArticleGlycobiology2016

Combining 3D structure with glycan array data provides insight into the origin of glycan specificity.

Oliver C Grant, Matthew B Tessier, Lawrence Meche, Lara K Mahal, Bethany L Foley, Robert J Woods

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Article in Glycobiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Oliver C GrantComplex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Matthew B TessierComplex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Lawrence MecheNew York University Department of Chemistry, Biomedical Chemistry Institute, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Lara K MahalNew York University Department of Chemistry, Biomedical Chemistry Institute, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Bethany L FoleyNew York University Department of Chemistry, Biomedical Chemistry Institute, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Robert J WoodsComplex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
New York University · USUniversity of Georgia · US

Funding

XRAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE ANALYSIS: PROTEIN SORTINGP41RR001081 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERRIN, THOMAS E · 1985 to 2011
$17.6M
TR&D3. Approaches to Proteoglycan Function at Biochemical and Cellular LevelsP41GM103390 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI MOREMEN, KELLEY W. · 2012 to 2019
$14.5M
Integrating Experiment and Theory to Characterize Diagnostic Antibody SpecificityR01GM094919 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI WOODS, ROBERT J · 2010 to 2013
$1.7M
Continued Development and Maintenance of GLYCAM-WebR01GM100058 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI FOLEY, B. LACHELE, WOODS, ROBERT J · 2012 to 2015
$1.1M
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR001081NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103390NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM094919NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100058
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Defining how a glycan-binding protein (GBP) specifically selects its cognate glycan from among the ensemble of glycans within the cellular glycome is an area of intense study. Powerful insight into recognition mechanisms can be gained from 3D structures of GBPs complexed to glycans; however, such structures remain difficult to obtain experimentally. Here an automated 3D structure generation technique, called computational carbohydrate grafting, is combined with the wealth of specificity information available from glycan array screening. Integration of the array data with modeling and crystallography allows generation of putative co-complex structures that can be objectively assessed and iteratively altered until a high level of agreement with experiment is achieved. Given an accurate model of the co-complexes, grafting is also able to discern which binding determinants are active when multiple potential determinants are present within a glycan. In some cases, induced fit in the protein or glycan was necessary to explain the observed specificity, while in other examples a revised definition of the minimal binding determinants was required. When applied to a collection of 10 GBP-glycan complexes, for which crystallographic and array data have been reported, grafting provided a structural rationalization for the binding specificity of >90% of 1223 arrayed glycans. A webtool that enables researchers to perform computational carbohydrate grafting is available at www.glycam.org/gr (accessed 03 March 2016).

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Molecular ConformationCarbohydratesCarrier ProteinsComputational BiologyPolysaccharidesProteinsCarbohydratesCarrier ProteinsPolysaccharidesProteins3D structurebinding determinantglycan array screeningglycan-binding proteinlectin specificity

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PMID26911287
PMCPMC4976521
OpenAlexW2322623174

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