Issue 19, 2020

Mannosylated hemagglutinin peptides bind cyanovirin-N independent of disulfide-bonds in complementary binding sites

Abstract

Cyanovirin-N (CV-N) has been shown to reveal broad neutralizing activity against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to specifically bind Manα(1→2)Manα units exposed on various glycoproteins of enveloped viruses, such as influenza hemagglutinin (HA) and Ebola glycoprotein. Chemically synthesized dimannosylated HA peptides bound domain-swapped and dimeric CV-N with either four disulfide-bonds (Cys–Cys), or three Cys–Cys bonds and an intact fold of the high-affinity binding site at an equilibrium dissociation constant KD of 10 μM. Cys–Cys mutagenesis with ion-pairing amino-acids glutamic acid and arginine was calculated by in silico structure-based protein design and allowed for recognizing dimannose and dimannosylated peptide binding to low-affinity binding sites (KD ≈ 11 μM for one C58–C73 bond, and binding to dimannosylated peptide). In comparison, binding to HA was achieved based on one ion-pairing C58E–C73R substitution at KD = 275 nM, and KD = 5 μM for two C58E–C73R substitutions. We were utilizing a triazole bioisostere linkage to form the respective mannosylated-derivative on the HA peptide sequence of residues glutamine, glycine, and glutamic acid. Thus, mono- and dimannosylated peptides with N-terminal cysteine facilitated site-specific interactions with HA peptides, mimicking a naturally found N-linked glycosylation site on the HA head domain.

Graphical abstract: Mannosylated hemagglutinin peptides bind cyanovirin-N independent of disulfide-bonds in complementary binding sites

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 feb. 2020
Accepted
10 mar. 2020
First published
17 mar. 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2020,10, 11079-11087

Mannosylated hemagglutinin peptides bind cyanovirin-N independent of disulfide-bonds in complementary binding sites

P. E. Schilling, G. Kontaxis, M. Dragosits, R. H. Schiestl, C. F. W. Becker and I. Maier, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 11079 DOI: 10.1039/D0RA01128B

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