7KMU

Structure of WT Malaysian Banana Lectin

Summary for 7KMU

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb7kmu/pdb
• Descriptor: Jacalin-type lectin domain-containing protein, 1,2-ETHANEDIOL (3 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: mannose-specific jacalin-related lectin, sugar binding protein
• Biological source: Musa acuminata (Wild banana)
• Total number of polymer chains: 2
• Total formula weight: 32808.66

Authors

Meagher, J.L.,Stuckey, J.A. (deposition date: 2020-11-03, release date: 2021-01-27, Last modification date: 2023-10-18)

Primary citation

Coves-Datson, E.M.,King, S.R.,Legendre, M.,Swanson, M.D.,Gupta, A.,Claes, S.,Meagher, J.L.,Boonen, A.,Zhang, L.,Kalveram, B.,Raglow, Z.,Freiberg, A.N.,Prichard, M.,Stuckey, J.A.,Schols, D.,Markovitz, D.M.
Targeted disruption of pi-pi stacking in Malaysian banana lectin reduces mitogenicity while preserving antiviral activity.
Sci Rep, 11:656-656, 2021

PubMed Abstract: Lectins, carbohydrate-binding proteins, have been regarded as potential antiviral agents, as some can bind glycans on viral surface glycoproteins and inactivate their functions. However, clinical development of lectins has been stalled by the mitogenicity of many of these proteins, which is the ability to stimulate deleterious proliferation, especially of immune cells. We previously demonstrated that the mitogenic and antiviral activities of a lectin (banana lectin, BanLec) can be separated via a single amino acid mutation, histidine to threonine at position 84 (H84T), within the third Greek key. The resulting lectin, H84T BanLec, is virtually non-mitogenic but retains antiviral activity. Decreased mitogenicity was associated with disruption of pi-pi stacking between two aromatic amino acids. To examine whether we could provide further proof-of-principle of the ability to separate these two distinct lectin functions, we identified another lectin, Malaysian banana lectin (Malay BanLec), with similar structural features as BanLec, including pi-pi stacking, but with only 63% amino acid identity, and showed that it is both mitogenic and potently antiviral. We then engineered an F84T mutation expected to disrupt pi-pi stacking, analogous to H84T. As predicted, F84T Malay BanLec (F84T) was less mitogenic than wild type. However, F84T maintained strong antiviral activity and inhibited replication of HIV, Ebola, and other viruses. The F84T mutation disrupted pi-pi stacking without disrupting the overall lectin structure. These findings show that pi-pi stacking in the third Greek key is a conserved mitogenic motif in these two jacalin-related lectins BanLec and Malay BanLec, and further highlight the potential to rationally engineer antiviral lectins for therapeutic purposes.

PubMed: 33436903
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80577-7

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.51 Å)