Publication Date:
2012-03-01
Description:
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are highly poisonous substances that are also effective medicines. Accidental BoNT poisoning often occurs through ingestion of Clostridium botulinum-contaminated food. Here, we present the crystal structure of a BoNT in complex with a clostridial nontoxic nonhemagglutinin (NTNHA) protein at 2.7 angstroms. Biochemical and functional studies show that NTNHA provides large and multivalent binding interfaces to protect BoNT from gastrointestinal degradation. Moreover, the structure highlights key residues in BoNT that regulate complex assembly in a pH-dependent manner. Collectively, our findings define the molecular mechanisms by which NTNHA shields BoNT in the hostile gastrointestinal environment and releases it upon entry into the circulation. These results will assist in the design of small molecules for inhibiting oral BoNT intoxication and of delivery vehicles for oral administration of biologics.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3545708/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3545708/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gu, Shenyan -- Rumpel, Sophie -- Zhou, Jie -- Strotmeier, Jasmin -- Bigalke, Hans -- Perry, Kay -- Shoemaker, Charles B -- Rummel, Andreas -- Jin, Rongsheng -- R01 AI091823/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U54 AI057159/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 24;335(6071):977-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1214270.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Neuroscience, Aging and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22363010" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
;
Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
;
Binding Sites
;
Botulinum Toxins, Type A/*chemistry/metabolism
;
Crystallography, X-Ray
;
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
;
Models, Molecular
;
Molecular Sequence Data
;
Multiprotein Complexes/chemistry/metabolism
;
Mutagenesis
;
Protein Binding
;
Protein Conformation
;
Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
;
Protein Structure, Secondary
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink
