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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-5-6
pubmed:abstractText
There are different glycosylated proteins in snake venoms, but no glycosylated representatives of a large family of three-fingered toxins have previously been detected. A new glycoprotein was isolated from the venom of the Thai cobra Naja kaouthia. MALDI MS of the glycoprotein contained an array of peaks in the range from approximately 8900 to approximately 9400 Da indicating its microheterogeneity. Carbohydrate analysis showed the presence of mannose, galactose, N-acetylglucosamine, fucose and neuraminic acid. The N-terminal sequence of the glycoprotein was identical to that of cytotoxin 3 (CX3) from N. kaouthia, and CD spectra of the glycoprotein and CX3 were almost the same. Cleavage of a glycan moiety by N-glycosidase F gave a protein of molecular mass practically coinciding with that of CX3. MALDI MS of the tryptic digest of reduced glycoprotein S-pyridylethylated at cysteine residues, contained peaks corresponding to all tryptic fragments of CX3, with the exception of fragment 24-30. The peak corresponding to this peptide appeared in the mass-spectrum of similarly treated deglycosylated glycoprotein. These data show that the potential N-glycosylation site at Asn29 in CX3 is utilized for glycan attachment and that the glycoprotein is glycosylated CX3. In vivo toxicity of the glycoprotein to the cricket Gryllus assimilis was twofold lower than that of CX3. The cytotoxic activity of the glycoprotein towards HL60 cells was about two orders of magnitude lower than that of CX3, but could be made equal to the CX3 cytotoxicity by deglycosylation. Thus for the first time we have isolated a glycosylated three-fingered snake venom toxin wherein glycosylation appears to modulate its biological activity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0014-2956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
271
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2018-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Circular Dichroism, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Cobra, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Cobra Venoms, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Consensus Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Cytotoxins, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Glucans, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Glycosylation, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Gryllidae, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-HL-60 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser..., pubmed-meshheading:15128311-Trypsin
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
The first representative of glycosylated three-fingered toxins. Cytotoxin from the Naja kaouthia cobra venom.
pubmed:affiliation
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't