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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 6, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/srep33633
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- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- NSF & NIH/NIGMS via NSF award [DMR-1332208]
- NIGMS award [GM-103485]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo [2010/16153-2, 2011/21811-1]
- Nucleo de Apoio a Pesquisa em Doencas Inflamatorias (NAPDIN) [11.1.21625.01.0]
- National Institutes of Health grant [GM100008]
Galectins are proteins involved in diverse cellular contexts due to their capacity to decipher and respond to the information encoded by beta-galactoside sugars. In particular, human galectin-4, normally expressed in the healthy gastrointestinal tract, displays differential expression in cancerous tissues and is considered a potential drug target for liver and lung cancer. Galectin-4 is a tandem-repeat galectin characterized by two carbohydrate recognition domains connected by a linker-peptide. Despite their relevance to cell function and pathogenesis, structural characterization of full-length tandem-repeat galectins has remained elusive. Here, we investigate galectin-4 using X-ray crystallography, small-and wide-angle X-ray scattering, molecular modelling, molecular dynamics simulations, and differential scanning fluorimetry assays and describe for the first time a structural model for human galectin-4. Our results provide insight into the structural role of the linker-peptide and shed light on the dynamic characteristics of the mechanism of carbohydrate recognition among tandem-repeat galectins.
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