Carbohydrate-binding specificity of a fucose-specific lectin from aspergillus oryzae: A novel probe for core fucose
Author:
Matsumura K, Higashida K, Ishida H, Hata Y, Yamamoto K, Shigeta M, Mizuno-Horikawa Y, Wang X, Miyoshi E, Gu J, Taniguchi N
Date: 5 April 2007
Abstract:
The α1,6-fucosyl residue (‘core fucose’) of glycoproteins is widely distributed in mammalian tissues and is altered under pathological conditions. A probe that specifically detects core fucose is important for understanding the role of this oligosaccharide structure. Aleuria aurantia lectin (AAL) and Lens culimaris agglutinin-A (LCA) have been often used as carbohydrate probes for core fucose in glycoproteins. Here we show, by using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis, that Aspergillus oryzae L-fucose-specific lectin (AOL) has strongest preference for the α1,6-fucosylated chain among α1,2-, α1,3-, α1,4- and α1,6-fucosylated pyridylaminated (PA)-sugar chains. These results suggest that AOL is a novel probe for detecting core fucose in glycoproteins on the surface of animal cells. A comparison of the carbohydrate-binding specificity of AOL, AAL and LCA by SPR showed that the irreversible binding of AOL to the α1,2-fucosylated PA-sugar chain (H antigen) relative to the α1,6-fucosylated chain was weaker than that of AAL, and that the interactions of AOL and AAL with α1,6-fucosylated glycopeptide (FGP), which is considered more similar to in vivo glycoproteins than PA-sugar chains, were similar to their interactions with the α1,6-fucosylated PA-sugar chain. Furthermore, positive staining of AOL, but not AAL, was completely abolished in the cultured embryo fibroblast (MEF) cells obtained from α1,6-fucosyltransferase (Fut8) knockout mice, as assessed by cytological staining. Taken together, these results suggest that AOL is more suitable for detecting core fucose than AAL or LCA.
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