title: Glycan specificity of myelin-associated glycoprotein and sialoadhesin deduced from interactions with synthetic oligosaccharides.
abstract: Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) and sialoadhesin (Sn) bind to sialylated glycans on cell surfaces and are thought to be involved in cell-cell interactions. In order to investigate how the interactions of these proteins are influenced by the glycan structure, we compared the inhibitory potencies of different synthetic monovalent oligosaccharides and polyvalent polyacrylamide derivatives. Using oligosaccharides with modifications in the sialic acid, galactose or N-acetylglucosamine moieties, we could demonstrate that both MAG and Sn bind with high preference to alpha2,3-linked sialic acid and interact at least with the three terminal monosaccharide units. For MAG, contacts with even more distant monosaccharides are likely, since pentasaccharides are bound better than trisaccharides. Also, an additional sialic acid at position six of the third-terminal monosaccharide unit enhances binding to MAG, whereas it does not influence binding to Sn significantly. Modifications of the sialic acid glycerol side chain demonstrated that the hydroxy groups at positions 8 and 9 are required for binding to both proteins. Surprisingly, MAG binds 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-glycero-D-galacto-nononic acid significantly better than N-acetylneuraminic acid, whereas Sn prefers the latter structure. These results indicate that the interactions of MAG and Sn are mainly with sialic acid and that additional contacts with the subterminal galactose and N-acetylglucosamine residues also contribute to the binding strength, although to a lesser degree.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, University of Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Strenge
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schauer
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bovin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kiso
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kelm
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D007141:Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments / Q000235:genetics; D008322:Mammals; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018992:Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein / Q000378:metabolism*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D063267:Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1; D012794:Sialic Acids / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007141:Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D018992:Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011134:Polysaccharides; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D063267:Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1; D012794:Sialic Acids