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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
Aberrant expression of human sialidases has been shown to associate with various pathological conditions. Despite the effort in the sialidase inhibitor design, less attention has been paid to designing specific inhibitors against human sialidases and characterizing the substrate specificity of different sialidases regarding diverse terminal sialic acid forms and sialyl linkages. This is mainly due to the lack of sialoside probes and efficient screening methods, as well as limited access to human sialidases. A low cellular expression level of the human sialidase NEU2 hampers its functional and inhibitory studies. Here we report the successful cloning and expression of the human sialidase NEU2 in E. coli. About 11 mg of soluble active NEU2 was routinely obtained from 1 L of E. coli cell culture. Substrate specificity studies of the recombinant human NEU2 using twenty p-nitrophenol (pNP)-tagged ?2-3- or ?2-6-linked sialyl galactosides containing different terminal sialic acid forms including common N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac), non-human N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc), 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-glycero-D-galacto-nonulosonic acid (Kdn), or their C5-derivatives in a microtiter plate-based high-throughput colorimetric assay identified a unique structural feature specifically recognized by the human NEU2 but not two bacterial sialidases. The results obtained from substrate specificity studies were used to guide the design of a sialidase inhibitor that was selective against human NEU2. The selectivity of the inhibitor was revealed by the comparison of sialidase crystal structures and inhibitor docking studies.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1742-2051
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1060-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Cations, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Drug Design, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-High-Throughput Screening Assays, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Inhibitory Concentration 50, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Neuraminidase, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Structure-Activity Relationship, pubmed-meshheading:21206954-Substrate Specificity
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Identifying selective inhibitors against the human cytosolic sialidase NEU2 by substrate specificity studies.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. chen@chem.ucdavis.edu.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural