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Tick saliva protein Evasin-3 modulates chemotaxis by disrupting CXCL8 interactions with glycosaminoglycans and CXCR2.


ABSTRACT: Chemokines are a group of chemotaxis proteins that regulate cell trafficking and play important roles in immune responses and inflammation. Ticks are blood-sucking parasites that secrete numerous immune-modulatory agents in their saliva to evade host immune responses. Evasin-3 is a small salivary protein that belongs to a class of chemokine-binding proteins isolated from the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus Evasin-3 has been shown to have a high affinity for chemokines CXCL1 and CXCL8 and to diminish inflammation in mice. In the present study, solution NMR spectroscopy was used to investigate the structure of Evasin-3 and its CXCL8-Evasin-3 complex. Evasin-3 is found to disrupt the glycosaminoglycan-binding site of CXCL8 and inhibit the interaction of CXCL8 with CXCR2. Structural data were used to design two novel CXCL8-binding peptides. The linear tEv3 17-56 and cyclic tcEv3 16-56 dPG Evasin-3 variants were chemically synthesized by solid-phase peptide synthesis. The affinity of these newly synthesized variants to CXCL8 was measured by surface plasmon resonance biosensor analysis. The Kd values of tEv3 17-56 and tcEv3 16-56 dPG were 27 and 13 nm, respectively. Both compounds effectively inhibited CXCL8-induced migration of polymorphonuclear neutrophils. The present results suggest utility of synthetic Evasin-3 variants as scaffolds for designing and fine-tuning new chemokine-binding agents that suppress immune responses and inflammation.

SUBMITTER: Denisov SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699855 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Tick saliva protein Evasin-3 modulates chemotaxis by disrupting CXCL8 interactions with glycosaminoglycans and CXCR2.

Denisov Stepan S SS   Ippel Johannes H JH   Heinzmann Alexandra C A ACA   Koenen Rory R RR   Ortega-Gomez Almudena A   Soehnlein Oliver O   Hackeng Tilman M TM   Dijkgraaf Ingrid I  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20190624 33


Chemokines are a group of chemotaxis proteins that regulate cell trafficking and play important roles in immune responses and inflammation. Ticks are blood-sucking parasites that secrete numerous immune-modulatory agents in their saliva to evade host immune responses. Evasin-3 is a small salivary protein that belongs to a class of chemokine-binding proteins isolated from the brown dog tick, <i>Rhipicephalus sanguineus</i> Evasin-3 has been shown to have a high affinity for chemokines CXCL1 and C  ...[more]

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