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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Clostridium botulinum produces the botulinum neurotoxin, forming a large complex as progenitor toxins in association with non-toxic non-hemagglutinin and/or several different hemagglutinin (HA) subcomponents, HA33, HA17 and HA70, which bind to carbohydrate of glycoproteins from epithelial cells in the infection process. To elucidate the carbohydrate recognition mechanism of HA70, X-ray structures of HA70 from type C toxin (HA70/C) in complexes with sialylated oligosaccharides were determined, and a binding assay by the glycoconjugate microarray was performed. These results suggested that HA70/C can recognize both alpha2-3- and alpha2-6-sialylated oligosaccharides, and that it has a higher affinity for alpha2-3-sialylated oligosaccharides.

Carbohydrate recognition mechanism of HA70 from Clostridium botulinum deduced from X-ray structures in complexes with sialylated oligosaccharides.,Yamashita S, Yoshida H, Uchiyama N, Nakakita Y, Nakakita S, Tonozuka T, Oguma K, Nishikawa A, Kamitori S FEBS Lett. 2012 Jul 30;586(16):2404-10. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.05.055. Epub , 2012 Jun 7. PMID:22684008^[1]

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