title: Aah VI, a novel, N-glycosylated anti-insect toxin from Androctonus australis hector scorpion venom: isolation, characterisation, and glycan structure determination.
abstract: Aah VI was isolated from the venom of the North African scorpion, Androctonus australis hector. It is the first glycosylated neurotoxin from scorpion venom to be described. It was not toxic to mice, when injected intracerebroventricularly at a dose of 1.2 microg per animal. However, it had typical activity in Blatella germanica cockroaches resulting in gradual paralysis and very low toxicity (LD50 = 8.5 microg/g of animal). It consists of 66 amino acid residues and is heterogeneously N-glycosylated at a single site, on asparagine 9, of the Asn-Gly-Thr sequence. The potential N-glycosylation site was deduced from automatic Edman degradation and amino acid analysis, and glycan heterogeneity was evidenced by ESMS. Determination of the N-glycan structures (dHex, Hex and HexNAc) was assessed by nanoESMS/MS with picomolar amounts of sample. Current knowledge of N-glycan structure and composition suggests that the glycan structures are derived from a common core.
authors.affiliation: UMR 6560, Université de la Méditerranée CNRS, Laboratoire de Biochimie, Ingénierie des Protéines, IFR Jean Roche, Faculté de Médicine Secteur Nord, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hassani
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Loew
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Van Dorsselaer
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Papandréou
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sorokine
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rochat
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sampieri
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mansuelle
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D006031:Glycosylation; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009498:Neurotoxins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry*; D012604:Scorpion Venoms / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid