All major cholesterol-dependent cytolysins use glycans as cellular receptors

Autor: Bostjan Kobe, Victor J. Torres, Adrienne W. Paton, Thomas Haselhorst, James C. Paton, Josephine F. Reijneveld, Arun V. Everest-Dass, Kristina M. Boguslawski, David B. A. James, Victor Nizet, Michael P. Jennings, Mark von Itzstein, Stephan Brouwer, John M. Atack, Christine M. Gillen, Zhenyao Luo, Lucy K. Shewell, Freda E.-C. Jen, Mark J. Walker, Christopher J. Day
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Science Advances
ISSN: 2375-2548
Popis: Eight major CDCs use glycans as cellular receptors to potentiate cytotoxicity and bind glycans and cholesterol independently.
Cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) form pores in cholesterol-rich membranes, but cholesterol alone is insufficient to explain their cell and host tropism. Here, we show that all eight major CDCs have high-affinity lectin activity that identifies glycans as candidate cellular receptors. Streptolysin O, vaginolysin, and perfringolysin O bind multiple glycans, while pneumolysin, lectinolysin, and listeriolysin O recognize a single glycan class. Addition of exogenous carbohydrate receptors for each CDC inhibits toxin activity. We present a structure for suilysin domain 4 in complex with two distinct glycan receptors, P1 antigen and αGal/Galili. We report a wide range of binding affinities for cholesterol and for the cholesterol analog pregnenolone sulfate and show that CDCs bind glycans and cholesterol independently. Intermedilysin binds to the sialyl-TF O-glycan on its erythrocyte receptor, CD59. Removing sialyl-TF from CD59 reduces intermedilysin binding. Glycan-lectin interactions underpin the cellular tropism of CDCs and provide molecular targets to block their cytotoxic activity.
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