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CHARCOT-LEYDEN CRYSTAL PROTEIN- PCMBS COMPLEX
OverviewOverview
Charcot-Leyden crystal (CLC) protein, initially reported to possess weak, lysophospholipase activity, is still considered to be the eosinophil's, lysophospholipase, but it shows no sequence similarities to any known, lysophospholipases. In contrast, CLC protein has moderate sequence, similarity, conserved genomic organization, and near structural identity, to members of the galectin superfamily, and it has been designated, galectin-10. To definitively determine whether or not CLC protein is a, lysophospholipase, we reassessed its enzymatic activity in peripheral, blood eosinophils and an eosinophil myelocyte cell line (AML14.3D10)., Antibody affinity chromatography was used to fully deplete CLC protein, from eosinophil lysates. The CLC-depleted lysates retained their full, lysophospholipase activity, and this activity could be blocked by, sulfhydryl group-reactive inhibitors, N-ethylmaleimide and, p-chloromercuribenzenesulfonate, previously reported to inhibit the, eosinophil enzyme. In contrast, the affinity-purified CLC protein lacked, significant lysophospholipase activity. X-ray crystallographic structures, of CLC protein in complex with the inhibitors showed that, p-chloromercuribenzenesulfonate bound CLC protein via disulfide bonds with, Cys(29) and with Cys(57) near the carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD), whereas N-ethylmaleimide bound to the galectin-10 CRD via ring stacking, interactions with Trp(72), in a manner highly analogous to mannose binding, to this CRD. Antibodies to rat pancreatic lysophospholipase identified a, protein in eosinophil and AML14.3D10 cell lysates, comparable in size with, human pancreatic lysophospholipase, which co-purifies in small quantities, with CLC protein. Ligand blotting of human and murine eosinophil lysates, with CLC protein as probe showed that it binds proteins also recognized by, antibodies to pancreatic lysophospholipase. Our results definitively show, that CLC protein is not one of the eosinophil's lysophospholipases but, that it does interact with eosinophil lysophospholipases and known, inhibitors of this lipolytic activity.
About this StructureAbout this Structure
1HDK is a Single protein structure of sequence from Homo sapiens with PMB as ligand. Active as Lysophospholipase, with EC number 3.1.1.5 Structure known Active Site: AC1. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
ReferenceReference
Charcot-Leyden crystal protein (galectin-10) is not a dual function galectin with lysophospholipase activity but binds a lysophospholipase inhibitor in a novel structural fashion., Ackerman SJ, Liu L, Kwatia MA, Savage MP, Leonidas DD, Swaminathan GJ, Acharya KR, J Biol Chem. 2002 Apr 26;277(17):14859-68. Epub 2002 Feb 7. PMID:11834744
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