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Effects of Desialylation on Human alpha1-Acid Glycoprotein-Ligand Interactions

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Author(s)

Richard Y. Huang, Jeffrey W. Hudgens

Abstract

Human α1-Acid Glycoprotein (AGP), an acute phase glycoprotein, exists predominantly in blood. With its ability to bind basic, lipophilic, and acidic drugs, AGP has served as a drug carrier. It has been shown that the carbohydrate composition of AGP changes in response to tissue injury, inflammation or infection, and can have great impact on AGP's drug-binding activities. The molecular-level details of the effects of desialylation on the AGP conformation and AGP-ligand interactions, however, are unknown. Here we report the use of hydrogen/deuterium exchange coupled with mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) to reveal the changes in AGP conformational dynamics induced by the removal of terminal sialic acid. HDX-MS also reveals the changes in conformational dynamics of sialylated and unsialylated AGP upon formation of holo-AGP-complexes with progesterone or propranolol. Our HDX-MS results demonstrate that desialylation stabilizes two loop regions that are exterior to the β-sheet barrel in AGP, and this stabilization minimizes the conformational changes of AGP upon binding with progesterone or propranolol.
Citation
Biochemistry
Volume
52
Issue
40

Keywords

AGP, glycoprotein, human alpha1-acid, hydrogen/deuterium exchange, mass spectrometry, sialylation, progesterone, propranolol, HDX-ETD

Citation

Huang, R. and Hudgens, J. (2013), Effects of Desialylation on Human alpha1-Acid Glycoprotein-Ligand Interactions, Biochemistry, [online], https://doi.org/10.1021/bi4011094, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=914495 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created September 15, 2013, Updated October 12, 2021