Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
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Cross-Link Formation between Mutant Galectins of Caenorhabditis elegans with a Substituted Cysteine Residue and Asialofetuin via a Photoactivatable Bifunctional Reagent
Mayumi TamuraTomoharu TakeuchiTakamasa NonakaKen-ichi KasaiYoichiro Arata
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2011 Volume 34 Issue 6 Pages 929-932

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LEC-1 is the first tandem repeat-type galectin isolated from an animal system; this galectin has two carbohydrate recognition domains in a single polypeptide chain. Because its two lectin domains have different sugar-binding profiles, these domains are thought to interact with different carbohydrate ligands. In our previous study, we showed that a mutant of LEC-1 in which a cysteine residue was introduced at a unique position in the N-terminal lectin domain (Nh) can be cross-linked with a model glycoprotein ligand, bovine asialofetuin, by using a bifunctional photoactivatable cross-linking reagent, benzophenone-4-maleimide. In the present work, we applied the same procedure to the C-terminal lectin domain (Ch) of LEC-1. Cross-linked products were formed in the cases of two mutants in which a cysteine residue was introduced at Lys177 and Ser268, respectively. This method is very useful for capturing and assigning endogenous ligand glycoconjugates with relatively low affinities to each carbohydrate recognition domain of the whole tandem repeat-type galectin molecule.

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