1. Glycan Determinants of Heparin-Tau Interaction
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Isabelle Huvent, Peter M. Tessier, Guy Lippens, Robert J. Linhardt, Fuming Zhang, David Eliezer, Jing Zhao, Anqiang Zhang, Quanhong Li, Chunyu Wang, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University (CAU), Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Biochemistry, Program in Structural Biology, Cornell University [New York], Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, The National Institutes of Health (AG019391 and AG025440 to D.E., and R01GM104130 to P.M.T.), China Agricultural University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Cornell University, and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Models, Molecular ,0301 basic medicine ,Glycan ,Protein Conformation ,Biophysics ,tau Proteins ,macromolecular substances ,Plasma protein binding ,nmr spectrometry ,héparine ,Sodium Chloride ,Dermatan sulfate ,heparinic acid ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Protein structure ,medicine ,[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering ,Binding site ,Surface plasmon resonance ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,030102 biochemistry & molecular biology ,biology ,spectrométrie rmn ,Heparin ,Proteins ,résonance plasmonique de surface ,Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ,Surface Plasmon Resonance ,Peptide Fragments ,3. Good health ,maladie d'alzheimer ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,Biochemistry ,biology.protein ,[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology ,Protein Binding ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Tau aggregates into paired helical filaments within neurons, a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Heparin promotes tau aggregation and recently has been shown to be involved in the cellular uptake of tau aggregates. Although the tau-heparin interaction has been extensively studied, little is known about the glycan determinants of this interaction. Here, we used surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and NMR spectroscopy to characterize the interaction between two tau fragments, K18 and K19, and several polysaccharides, including heparin, heparin oligosaccharides, chemically modified heparin, and related glycans. Using a heparin-immobilized chip, SPR revealed that tau K18 and K19 bind heparin with a K-D of 0.2 and 70 mu M, respectively. In SPR competition experiments, N-desulfation and 2-O-desulfation had no effect on heparin binding to K18, whereas 6-O-desulfation severely reduced binding, suggesting a critical role for 6-O-sulfation in the tau-heparin interaction. The tau-heparin interaction became stronger with longer-chain heparin oligosaccharides. As expected for an electrostatics-driven interaction, a moderate amount of salt (0.3 M NaCl) abolished binding. NMR showed the largest chemical-shift perturbation (CSP) in R2 in tau K18, which was absent in K19, revealing differential binding sites in K18 and K19 to heparin. Dermatan sulfate binding produced minimal CSP, whereas dermatan disulfate, with the additional 6-O-sulfo group, induced much larger CSP. 2-O-desulfated heparin induced much larger CSP in K18 than 6-O-desulfated heparin. Our data demonstrate a crucial role for the 6-O-sulfo group in the tau-heparin interaction, which to our knowledge has not been reported before.
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- 2017