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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 44, Issue 35, Pages 11669-11675Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi0509954
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Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase (VCNA) plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of cholera by removing sialic acid residues from higher-order gangliosides to an unmasked GM1, the essential receptor for cholera toxin. Here we report that a novel mechanism-based fluorescent labeling reagent, 5-acetamido2-(4-N-5-dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulfonyl-2-difluoroi-nethylphenyl)-3,5-dideoxy-D-glycero-alpha-D-galacto-2-nonulopyranosonic acid (1), becomes a unique irreversible inhibitor of VCNA. Characterization of an inactivated VCNA by MALDI-TOF/TOFMS analysis revealed that the Asp-576 and Arg-577 residues, which are located within the (DRFF571)-D-576 sequence, were specifically labeled with this suicide-type fluorescent substrate. Neither Asp-576 nor Arg-577 has ever been known to contribute to a specific residue in the rigid and highly conserved active site of VCNA investigated by crystallographic analysis, suggesting that a flexible beta-turn structure containing this sequence may have a crucial role in the dynamic nature of substrate recognition and catalytic action by VCNA.
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