Glycobiology, 2000, Vol. 10, No. 1 11-20
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Conversion of cellular sialic acid expression from N-acetyl- to N-glycolylneuraminic acid using a synthetic precursor, N-glycolylmannosamine pentaacetate: inhibition of myelin-associated glycoprotein binding to neural cells
Departments of Pharmacology and 4Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Sialic acids are prominent termini of mammalian glycoconjugates and are key binding determinants for cell–cell recognition lectins. Binding of the sialic acid–dependent lectin, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), to nerve cells is implicated in the inhibition of nerve regeneration after injury. Therefore, blocking MAG binding to nerve cell sialoglycoconjugates might enhance nerve regeneration. Previously, we reported that certain sialoglycoconjugates bearing N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) but not N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc) support MAG binding (Collins et al., 1997a). We now report highly efficient conversion of sialic acids on living neural cells from exclusively NeuAc to predominantly NeuGc using a novel synthetic metabolic precursor, N-glycolylmannosamine pentaacetate (ManNGcPA). When NG108–15 neuroblastoma-glioma hybrid cells, which normally express only NeuAc (and bind to MAG), were cultured in the presence of 1 mM ManNGcPA, they expressed 80–90% of their sialic acid precursor pool as NeuGc within 24 h. Within 5 days, 80% of their ganglioside-associated sialic acids and 70% of their glycoprotein-associated sialic acids were converted to NeuGc. Consistent with this result, treatment of NG108–15 cells with ManNGcPA resulted in nearly complete abrogation of MAG binding. These results demonstrate that ManNGcPA treatment efficiently alters the sialic acid structures on living cells, with a commensurate change in recognition by a physiologically important lectin.
1 These two authors contributed equally to this work.
2 Present address: Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
3 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185
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