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Probing altered receptor specificities of antigenically drifting human H3N2 viruses by chemoenzymatic synthesis, NMR, and modeling.

ABSTRACT: Prototypic receptors for human influenza viruses are N-glycans carrying α2,6-linked sialosides. Due to immune pressure, A/H3N2 influenza viruses have emerged with altered receptor specificities that bind α2,6-linked sialosides presented on extended N-acetyl-lactosamine (LacNAc) chains. Here, binding modes of such drifted hemagglutinin's (HAs) are examined by chemoenzymatic synthesis of N-glycans having ¹³C-labeled monosaccharides at strategic positions. The labeled glycans are employed in 2D STD-¹H by ¹³C-HSQC NMR experiments to pinpoint which monosaccharides of the extended LacNAc chain engage with evolutionarily distinct HAs. The NMR data in combination with computation and mutagenesis demonstrate that mutations distal to the receptor binding domain of recent HAs create an extended binding site that accommodates with the extended LacNAc chain. A fluorine containing sialoside is used as NMR probe to derive relative binding affinities and confirms the contribution of the extended LacNAc chain for binding.

SUBMITTER: Unione L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10998905 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Probing altered receptor specificities of antigenically drifting human H3N2 viruses by chemoenzymatic synthesis, NMR, and modeling.

Unione Luca L Ammerlaan Augustinus N A ANA Bosman Gerlof P GP Uslu Elif E Liang Ruonan R Broszeit Frederik F van der Woude Roosmarijn R Liu Yanyan Y Ma Shengzhou S Liu Lin L Gómez-Redondo Marcos M Bermejo Iris A IA Valverde Pablo P Diercks Tammo T Ardá Ana A de Vries Robert P RP Boons Geert-Jan GJ

Nature communications 20240406 1

Prototypic receptors for human influenza viruses are N-glycans carrying α2,6-linked sialosides. Due to immune pressure, A/H3N2 influenza viruses have emerged with altered receptor specificities that bind α2,6-linked sialosides presented on extended N-acetyl-lactosamine (LacNAc) chains. Here, binding modes of such drifted hemagglutinin's (HAs) are examined by chemoenzymatic synthesis of N-glycans having <sup>13</sup>C-labeled monosaccharides at strategic positions. The labeled glycans are employe ...[more]

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Probing altered receptor specificities of antigenically drifting human H3N2 viruses by chemoenzymatic synthesis, NMR, and modeling.

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Probing altered receptor specificities of antigenically drifting human H3N2 viruses by chemoenzymatic synthesis, NMR, and modeling.

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