Antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.

Modified gangliosides may be overexpressed in certain types of cancer, thus, they are considered a valuable target in cancer immunotherapy. Structural knowledge of their interaction with antibodies is currently limited, due to the large size and high flexibility of these ligands. In this study, we a...

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Autores principales: Mark Agostino, Elizabeth Yuriev, Paul A Ramsland
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:af14ca8bcbe0451596994dc406ff1a812021-11-18T07:21:25ZAntibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0035457https://doaj.org/article/af14ca8bcbe0451596994dc406ff1a812012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22536387/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Modified gangliosides may be overexpressed in certain types of cancer, thus, they are considered a valuable target in cancer immunotherapy. Structural knowledge of their interaction with antibodies is currently limited, due to the large size and high flexibility of these ligands. In this study, we apply our previously developed site mapping technique to investigate the recognition of cancer-related gangliosides by anti-ganglioside antibodies. The results reveal a potential ganglioside-binding motif in the four antibodies studied, suggesting the possibility of structural convergence in the anti-ganglioside immune response. The structural basis of the recognition of ganglioside-mimetic peptides is also investigated using site mapping and compared to ganglioside recognition. The peptides are shown to act as structural mimics of gangliosides by interacting with many of the same binding site residues as the cognate carbohydrate epitopes. These studies provide important clues as to the structural basis of immunological mimicry of carbohydrates.Mark AgostinoElizabeth YurievPaul A RamslandPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 4, p e35457 (2012)
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Mark Agostino
Elizabeth Yuriev
Paul A Ramsland
Antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.
description Modified gangliosides may be overexpressed in certain types of cancer, thus, they are considered a valuable target in cancer immunotherapy. Structural knowledge of their interaction with antibodies is currently limited, due to the large size and high flexibility of these ligands. In this study, we apply our previously developed site mapping technique to investigate the recognition of cancer-related gangliosides by anti-ganglioside antibodies. The results reveal a potential ganglioside-binding motif in the four antibodies studied, suggesting the possibility of structural convergence in the anti-ganglioside immune response. The structural basis of the recognition of ganglioside-mimetic peptides is also investigated using site mapping and compared to ganglioside recognition. The peptides are shown to act as structural mimics of gangliosides by interacting with many of the same binding site residues as the cognate carbohydrate epitopes. These studies provide important clues as to the structural basis of immunological mimicry of carbohydrates.
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author Mark Agostino
Elizabeth Yuriev
Paul A Ramsland
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Elizabeth Yuriev
Paul A Ramsland
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title Antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.
title_short Antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.
title_full Antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.
title_fullStr Antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.
title_full_unstemmed Antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.
title_sort antibody recognition of cancer-related gangliosides and their mimics investigated using in silico site mapping.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2012
url https://doaj.org/article/af14ca8bcbe0451596994dc406ff1a81
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