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GLYCOBIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 11-20Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/10.1.11
Keywords
sialic acid biosynthesis; N-acetylmannosamine; N-acetylneuraminic acid; N-glycolylneuraminic acid; siglec recognition
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS037096, R37NS037096] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM07626] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS37096] Funding Source: Medline
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Sialic acids are prominent termini of mammalian glycoconjugates and are key binding determinants for cell-cell recognition lectins, Binding of the sialic acid-dependent lectin, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), to nerve cells is implicated in the inhibition of nerve regeneration after injury. Therefore, blocking MAG binding to nerve cell sialoglycoconjugates might enhance nerve regeneration. Previously, we reported that certain sialoglycoconjugates bearing N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) but not N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc) support MAG binding (Collins et at, 1997a), We now report highly efficient conversion of sialic acids on living neural cells from exclusively NeuAc to predominantly NeuGc using a novel synthetic metabolic precursor, N-glycolylmannosamine pentaacetate (ManNGcPA). When NG108-15 neuroblastoma-glioma hybrid cells, which normally express only NeuAc (and bind to MAG), mere cultured in the presence of 1 mM ManNGcPA, they expressed 80-90% of their sialic acid precursor pool as NeuGc within 24 h, Within 5 days, 80% of their ganglioside-associated sialic acids and 70% of their glycoprotein-associated sialic acids were converted to NeuGc. Consistent with this result, treatment of NG108-15 cells with ManNGcPA resulted in nearly complete abrogation of MAG binding. These results demonstrate that ManNGcPA treatment efficiently alters the sialic acid structures on living cells, with a commensurate change in recognition by a physiologically important lectin.
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