Structures of glycans bound to receptors from saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR spectroscopy: quantitative analysis by using CORCEMA-ST

Methods Mol Biol. 2015:1273:475-87. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2343-4_28.

Abstract

Glycan-receptor interactions are of fundamental relevance for a large number of biological processes, and their kinetics properties (medium/weak binding affinities) make them appropriated to be studied by ligand observed NMR techniques, among which saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR spectroscopy has been shown to be a very robust and powerful approach. The quantitative analysis of the results from a STD NMR study of a glycan-receptor interaction is essential to be able to translate the resulting spectral intensities into a 3D molecular model of the complex. This chapter describes how to carry out such a quantitative analysis by means of the Complete Relaxation and Conformational Exchange Matrix Approach for STD NMR (CORCEMA-ST), in general terms, and an example of a previous work on an antibody-glycan interaction is also shown.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbohydrate Conformation
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods*
  • Models, Molecular
  • Polysaccharides / chemistry*
  • Polysaccharides / metabolism*
  • Receptors, Cell Surface / metabolism*
  • Software*

Substances

  • Polysaccharides
  • Receptors, Cell Surface