期刊
CHEMBIOCHEM
卷 10, 期 2, 页码 329-337出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800550
关键词
aggregation; carbohydrates; cholera; dendrimers; multivalency
资金
- Royal Society
- NanoNed
- Graduate School VLAG (Wageningen, The Netherlands)
- Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS)
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- BBSRC CASE award
- AstraZeneca
- Wellcome Trust
Divalent and tetravalent analogues of ganglioside GM1 are potent inhibitors of cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin, However, they show little increase in inherent affinity when compared to the corresponding monovalent carbohydrate ligand Analytical ultracentrifugation and dynamic light scattering hove been used to demonstrate that the multivalent inhibitors induce protein aggregation and the formation of space-filling networks. This aggregation process appears to arise when using ligands that do not match the valency of the protein receptor. While it is generally accepted that multivalency is an effective strategy for increasing the activity of inhibitors, here we show that the valency of the inhibitor also has a dramatic effect on the kinetics of aggregation and the stability of intermediate protein complexes. Structural studies employing atomic force microscopy have revealed that a divalent inhibitor induces head-to-head dimerization of the protein toxin en route to higher aggregates.
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