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Oligosaccharide recognition and binding to the carbohydrate binding module of AMP-activated protein kinase
Ann Koay1, Kieran A Rimmer, Haydyn D T Mertens
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Abstract:
The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) contains a carbohydrate-binding module (beta1-CBM) that is conserved from yeast to mammals. Beta1-CBM has been shown to localize AMPK to glycogen in intact cells and in vitro. Here we use Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to investigate oligosaccharide binding to 15N labelled beta1-CBM. We find that beta1-CBM shows greatest affinity to carbohydrates of greater than five glucose units joined via alpha,1-->4 glycosidic linkages with a single, but not multiple, glucose units in an alpha,1-->6 branch. The near identical chemical shift profile for all oligosaccharides whether cyclic or linear suggest a similar binding conformation and confirms the presence of a single carbohydrate-binding site.
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