Fucosylation and protein glycosylation create functional receptors for cholera toxin

Amberlyn M. Wands; Akiko Fujita; Janet E. McCombs; Jakob Cervin; Benjamin Dedic; Andrea C. Rodriguez; Nicole Nischan; Michelle R. Bond; Marcel Mettlen; David C. Trudgian; Andrew Lemoff; Marianne Quiding-Järbrink; Bengt Gustavsson; Catharina Steentoft; Henrik Clausen; Hamid Mirzaei; Susann Teneberg; Ulf Yrlid; Jennifer J. Kohler

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Fucosylation and protein glycosylation create functional receptors for cholera toxin

Amberlyn M. Wands, Akiko Fujita, Janet E. McCombs, Jakob Cervin, Benjamin Dedic, Andrea C. Rodriguez, Nicole Nischan, Michelle R. Bond, Marcel Mettlen, David C. Trudgian, Andrew Lemoff, Marianne Quiding-Järbrink, Bengt Gustavsson, Catharina Steentoft, Henrik Clausen, Hamid Mirzaei, Susann Teneberg, Ulf Yrlid, Jennifer J. Kohler

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Cholera toxin (CT) enters and intoxicates host cells after binding cell surface receptors using its B subunit (CTB). The ganglioside (glycolipid) GM1 is thought to be the sole CT receptor; however, the mechanism by which CTB binding to GM1 mediates internalization of CT remains enigmatic. Here we report that CTB binds cell surface glycoproteins. Relative contributions of gangliosides and glycoproteins to CTB binding depend on cell type, and CTB binds primarily to glycoproteins in colonic epithelial cell lines. Using a metabolically incorporated photocrosslinking sugar, we identified one CTB-binding glycoprotein and demonstrated that the glycan portion of the molecule, not the protein, provides the CTB interaction motif. We further show that fucosylated structures promote CTB entry into a colonic epithelial cell line and subsequent host cell intoxication. CTB-binding fucosylated glycoproteins are present in normal human intestinal epithelia and could play a role in cholera.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e09545
Journal	eLife
Volume	4
Issue number	OCTOBER2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09545
State	Published - Oct 29 2015

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General Neuroscience
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Immunology and Microbiology

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Wands, A. M., Fujita, A., McCombs, J. E., Cervin, J., Dedic, B., Rodriguez, A. C., Nischan, N., Bond, M. R., Mettlen, M., Trudgian, D. C., Lemoff, A., Quiding-Järbrink, M., Gustavsson, B., Steentoft, C., Clausen, H., Mirzaei, H., Teneberg, S., Yrlid, U., & Kohler, J. J. (2015). Fucosylation and protein glycosylation create functional receptors for cholera toxin. eLife, 4(OCTOBER2015), Article e09545. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09545

Wands, AM, Fujita, A, McCombs, JE, Cervin, J, Dedic, B, Rodriguez, AC, Nischan, N, Bond, MR, Mettlen, M, Trudgian, DC, Lemoff, A, Quiding-Järbrink, M, Gustavsson, B, Steentoft, C, Clausen, H, Mirzaei, H, Teneberg, S, Yrlid, U & Kohler, JJ 2015, 'Fucosylation and protein glycosylation create functional receptors for cholera toxin', eLife, vol. 4, no. OCTOBER2015, e09545. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09545

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