Saccharide binding to three Gal/GalNAc specific lectins: Fluorescence, spectroscopic and stopped-flow kinetic studies

Khan, MI and Swamy, Joginadha M and Sastry, Krishna MV and Sajjan, Umadevi S and Patanjali, SR and Rao, Prasad and Swarnalatha, GV and Banerjee, P and Surolia, A (1988) Saccharide binding to three Gal/GalNAc specific lectins: Fluorescence, spectroscopic and stopped-flow kinetic studies. In: Glycoconjugate Journal, 5 (1). pp. 75-84.

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Abstract

Fluorescence and stopped-flow spectrophotometric studies on three plant lectins fromPsophocarpus tetragonolobus (winged bean),Glycine max (soybean) andArtocarpus integrifolia (jack fruit) have been studied usingN-dansylgalactosamine as a fluorescent ligand. The best monosaccharide for the winged bean agglutinin I (WBA I) and soybean (SBA) is Me-agrGalNAc and for jack fruit agglutinin (JFA) is Me-agrGal. Examination of the percentage enhancement and association constants (1.51×106, 6.56×106 and 4.17×105 M–1 for SBA, WBA I and JFA, respectively) suggests that the combining regions of the lectins SBA and WBA I are apolar whereas that of JFA is polar. Thermodynamic parameters obtained for the binding of several monosaccharides to these lectins are enthalpically favourable. The binding of monosaccharides to these lectins suggests that the-OH groups at C-1, C-2, C-4 and C-6 in thed-galactose configuration are important loci for interaction with these lectins. An important finding is that the JFA binds specifically to Galß1-3GaINAc with much higher affinity than the other disaccharides which are structurally and topographically similar.The results of stopped-flow spectrometry on the binding ofN-dansylgalactosamine to these lectins are consistent with a bimolecular single step mechanism. The association rate constants (2.4×105, 1.3×104, and 11.7×105 M–1 sec–1 for SBA, WBA I and JFA, respectively) obtained are several orders of magnitude slower than the ones expected for diffusion controlled reactions. The dissociation rate constants (0.2, 3.2×10–2, 83.3 sec–1 for SBA, WBA I and JFA, respectively) obtained for the dissociation ofN-dansylgalactosamine from its lectin complex are slowest for SBA and WBA I when compared with any other lectin-ligand dissociation process.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Glycoconjugate Journal
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Keywords:	Lectin;sugar binding fluorescent ligand.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2010 08:20
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2010 08:20
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/32537

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