Sialyl-LacNAc-PNA⋅DNA Concatamers by Rolling-Circle Amplification as Multivalent Inhibitors of Influenza A Virus Particles

Autor: Valentin Reiter-Scherer, Jürgen P. Rabe, Malte Hilsch, Christoph Böttcher, Daniel Lauster, Andreas Herrmann, Kai Ludwig, Oliver Seitz, Victor Bandlow
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology. 20(2)
ISSN: 1439-7633
Popis: The surfaces of influenza A virus (IAV) particles are packed with hundreds of homo-trimeric hemagglutinins (HAs). Monovalent sugars have low affinity for HA, but distance-optimized bivalent sialyl-LacNAc (SLN) conjugates bind it with 103 -fold enhanced potency. Herein, we describe the oligomerization of distance-optimized bivalent binders by branched and linear hybridization on long repetitive DNA templates. The most effective complexes fully inhibited IAVs at a DNA template concentration of 10-9 m. Although a 10-2 m concentration of free trisaccharide ligand is required for full inhibition of the virus, DNA templating enables a 104 -fold reduction in the amount of sugar required. Notably, hybridization-induced rigidification of the DNA templates increased the serospecificity. Cryo-TEM analysis revealed that both spaghetti-type linear forms and cotton-ball-like clusters are able to bridge several adjacent HA molecules on the IAV surface. Programmed self-assembly of ligand-nucleic acid conjugates on long DNA templates might provide generic access to target-specific, high-affinity binders of proteins on globular objects such as cells and viruses.
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