Elongation of the N-acyl side chain of sialic acids in MDCK II cells inhibits influenza A virus infection
Elongation of the N-acyl side chain of sialic acids in MDCK II cells inhibits influenza A virus infection
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DOI:
10.1006/bbrc.1998.9650
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发表时间:
1998-12-18
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Pawlita, M
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作者:
Keppler, OT;Herrmann, M;Pawlita, M
The interaction of influenza A virus with sialyated receptor components is one of the best characterized ligand-receptor interactions. We pretreated MDCK II host cells with three different N-acyl-modified sialic acid precursor analogues, N-propanoyl, N-butanoyl or N-pentanoyl D-mannnosamine. Cellular sialic acid biosynthesis yielded 18-35% of new, modified sialic acids on cell surface glycoconjugates, N-propanoyl, N-butanoyl or N-pentanoyl neuraminic acid, respectively. The elongation of the N-acyl group of sialic acids resulted in an inhibition of influenza A virus (strain X31) binding and subsequent infection of up to 80%. In contrast, the sialic acid-independent infection of vesicular stomatitis virus was unaffected in these cells. Molecular modeling studies based on the crystal structure of the influenza A virus hemagglutinin complexed with sialyllactose suggest a steric hindrance of hemagglutinin binding to aliphatically elongated N-acyl groups. We propose that biosynthetic sialic acid modification in conjunction with molecular modeling is a potent tool to further analyze the influenza A virus-receptor interaction, (C) 1998 Academic Press.