On the structural significance of the linkage region constituents of N-glycoproteins: an X-ray crystallographic investigation using models and analogs

Autor: Kuttikode Priya, Duraikkannu Loganathan, Thiruneelakantan Lakshmanan, Desikan Sriram
Rok vydání: 2003
Předmět:
Models
Molecular
Stereochemistry
Protein Conformation
Biophysics
Linkage (mechanical)
Crystal structure
Crystallography
X-Ray
Biochemistry
law.invention
Acetylglucosamine
chemistry.chemical_compound
Structure-Activity Relationship
Protein structure
law
Amide
Moiety
Computer Simulation
Trisaccharide
amide
amino acid
asparagine
bacterial protein
carbohydrate derivative
galactose
glutamine
glycoprotein
glycoside
hydrogen
mannose
propionamide derivative
rhamnose
trisaccharide
xylose
article
carbohydrate analysis
chemical bond
crystal structure
Geobacillus stearothermophilus
hydrogen bond
molecular model
priority journal
protein assembly
protein structure
rigidity
X ray crystallography
Asparagine
Binding Sites
Carbon
Glycolysis
Glycoproteins
Hydrogen Bonding
Protein Binding
Protein Subunits
Eukaryota
Molecular Biology
chemistry.chemical_classification
Chemistry
Hydrogen bond
Cell Biology
Crystallography
Acetamide
Zdroj: Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 312(2)
ISSN: 0006-291X
Popis: The linkage region constituents, namely, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranose and asparagine are conserved in the N-glycoproteins of all the eukaryotes. The present work is aimed at understanding the reasons for the occurrence of GlcNAc and Asn as the linkage region constituents. A total of six sugar amides have been designed as models and analogs of the linkage region and their crystal structures have been solved. This is the first report on the X-ray crystallographic investigation of the effect of systematic changes in the linkage sugar as well as its aglycon moiety on the N-glycosidic torsion, psi(N) (O5-C1-N1-C1(')). This also forms the first report on the crystal structure of a model of L-RhabetaAsn, a variant linkage found in the surface layer glycoprotein of Bacillus stearothermophillus. Among the models and analogs examined, the acetamido derivatives of Man and Xyl, the linkage sugars of O-glycoproteins, show a psi(N) value of -114.5 degrees and -121.2 degrees, respectively, deviating maximum from the value of -89.8 degrees reported for the model compound GlcNAcbetaNHAc. The L-Rha and Gal derivatives also show noticeable deviations. The psi(N) values, -89.5 degrees and -91.0 degrees, of the propionamide derivatives of Glc and GlcNAc (analogs of GlcbetaGln and GlcNAcbetaGln, respectively) agree well with those (-93.8 degrees and -89.8 degrees ) reported for their corresponding acetamide derivatives suggesting Gln could serve as well as Asn as the linkage region amino acid. However, the rotational freedom about the additional C-C bond would lead to altered rigidity of the linkage region. An analysis of packing reveals that the molecular assembly of these compounds is driven by different infinite and finite chains of hydrogen bonds. The double pillaring of hydrogen bonds involving the amide groups at C1 and C2 is seen as a unique packing feature characteristic of beta-1-N-acyl derivatives of GlcNAc. Based on the findings of the present study, it is speculated that the linkage region constituents of the eukaryotic N-glycoproteins appear to fulfill three essential structural requirements: rigidity, planarity, and linearity and these are met by the trisaccharide core and Asn at the linkage region.
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