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Recognition of Sulphated and Fucosylated Receptor Sialosides by A/Vietnam/1194/2004 (H5N1) Influenza Virus

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Virus Res. 2013 Sep 10. pii: S0168-1702(13)00286-4. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.08.007. [Epub ahead of print]
Recognition of Sulphated and Fucosylated Receptor Sialosides by A/Vietnam/1194/2004 (H5N1) Influenza Virus.
Xiong X, Tuzikov A, Coombs P, Martin S, Walker PA, Gamblin SJ, Bovin N, Skehel JJ.
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National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, U.K.
Abstract

Like most avian influenza viruses, H5 viruses preferentially, bind to sialic acid in α2-3-linkage to galactose, the second saccharide, of carbohydrate side-chains (Ha et al., 2001; Matrosovich et al., 1999). H5 viruses isolated from different, avian species also show preferences for different linkages of galactose, to N-acetyl glucosamine, the third saccharide; wild duck viruses prefer, Galβ1-3GlcNAc, and domesticated poultry prefer Galβ1-4GlcNAc- linked, sialosides (Gambaryan et al., 2006, 2005, 2008, 2004). Probably as a consequence of their route of, transmission to humans, H5 viruses isolated from humans show the same, preference as poultry viruses., GlcNAc in these different linkages can also be fucosylated and/or, sulphated (Gambaryan et al., 2006, 2008, 2004) and the effects of these modifications on receptor, binding are also species specific. Since the fucosylated and sulphated, sialoside Neu5Acα2-3Galβ1-4(Fucα1-3)(6-HSO3)GlcNac (Su-SLex) is a, component of endothelial cells (Gambaryan et al., 2012), for which highly pathogenic H5, viruses have been seen to display strong cell tropism (Klenk, 2005; Ocana-Macchi et al., 2009; Zeng et al., 2012), we have, studied the nature of this analogue's interactions with a human H5 virus. For this purpose we have used X-ray crystallography to examine complexes, formed by A/Vietnam/1194/2003 (H5N1) HA with four related, Galβ1-4GlcNAclinked, sialoside receptor analogues: Neu5Acα2-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc (3'SLN), Neu5Acα2-3Galβ1-4(6-HSO3)GlcNAc (Su-3'SLN), Neu5Acα2-3Galβ1-4(Fucα1-, 3)GlcNac (SLex), and Neu5Acα2-3Galβ1-4(Fucα1-3)(6-HSO3)GlcNAc (Su-SLex)., We have also determined virus affinity for the analogues by surface, biolayer interferometry.

Copyright ? 2013. Published by Elsevier B.V.
KEYWORDS:

X-ray crystallography, acid, influenza viruses, sialic, sialosides, surface biolayer interferometry

PMID:
24036174
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24036174
 
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