Structural and functional studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae neuraminidase B: An intramolecular trans‐sialidase
- 5 September 2008
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 582 (23-24), 3348-3352
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2008.08.026
Abstract
The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae expresses neuraminidase proteins that cleave sialic acids from complex carbohydrates. The pneumococcus genome encodes up to three neuraminidase proteins that have been shown to be important virulence factors. Here, we report the first structure of a neuraminidase from S. pneumoniae: the crystal structure of NanB in complex with its reaction product 2,7-anhydro-Neu5Ac. Our structural data, together with biochemical analysis, establish NanB as an intramolecular trans-sialidase with strict specificity towards alpha2-3 linked sialic acid substrates. In addition, we show that NanB differs in its substrate specificity from the other pneumococcal neuraminidase NanA.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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