Molecular recognition XII. The binding of the H human blood group determinants and congeners by a lectin of Galactiatenuiflora

Autor: Rémy Cromer, Raymond U. Lemieux, Deveshwari P. Khare, Jacques LePendu, Ulrike Spohr
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 70:1511-1530
ISSN: 1480-3291
0008-4042
DOI: 10.1139/v92-187
Popis: The H-type 2 human blood group-related trisaccharide (α-L-Fuc-(1c → 2b)-β-D-Gal-(1b → 4a)-β-D-GlcNAc-OMe (52)) is bound by the anti-H lectin of Galactiatenuiflora very differently than by the lectin I of Ulexeuropaeus. The reason why the Galactia lectin binds the H-type 1 related trisaccharide (α-L-Fuc-(1c → 2b)-β-D-Gal-(1b → 3a)-β-D-GlcNAc-OMe (5)) more strongly and methyl α-L-fucopyranoside much more weakly than does the Ulex lectin is that, for the Galactia lectin, the hydroxyl groups at positions 3a, 3b, 4b, and 4c are indispensable to complex formation whereas it is the hydroxyl groups at positions 3b, 2c, 3c, and 4c which provide the key polar intractions in the case of the Ulex lectin. The H-type 2 (52)•Galactia lectin complex appears to have the hydroxyl groups at positions 6b, 2c, and 3c at or near the periphery of the combining site and the three key hydroxyl groups hydrogen bonded to the protein deep within the combining site and sheltered from water. The CH3O-1a, NHAc-2a, and CH2OH-6a groups likely remain in the aqueous phase remote from the surface of the protein.
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