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Published on: May 17, 2024
Structures of glycans bound to receptors from saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR spectroscopy: quantitative
Pedro M Enríquez-Navas1, Cinzia Guzzi, Juan C Muñoz-García
1Andalusian Centre for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology (BIONAND), C/Severo Ochoa 35, Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía, 29590, Campanillas, Málaga, Spain.
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.
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