scholarly journals Inhibition of the key enzyme of sialic acid biosynthesis by C6-Se modified N-acetylmannosamine analogs

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 3928-3933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaia Nieto-Garcia ◽  
Paul R. Wratil ◽  
Long D. Nguyen ◽  
Verena Böhrsch ◽  
Stephan Hinderlich ◽  
...  

Synthetically accessible C6-analogs ofN-acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) were tested as potential inhibitors of the bifunctional UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE/MNK), the key enzyme of sialic acid biosynthesis.

1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. G. Broxterman ◽  
G. A. van der Marel ◽  
J. H. van Boom

2004 ◽  
Vol 279 (53) ◽  
pp. 55722-55727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Benie ◽  
Astrid Blume ◽  
Richard R. Schmidt ◽  
Werner Reutter ◽  
Stephan Hinderlich ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-Chia Chen ◽  
Chi-Hung Huang ◽  
Shu-Jung Lai ◽  
Chia Shin Yang ◽  
Tzu-Hung Hsiao ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 384 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid BLUME ◽  
Wenke WEIDEMANN ◽  
Ulrich STELZL ◽  
Erich E. WANKER ◽  
Lothar LUCKA ◽  
...  

UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase is a bifunctional enzyme, which initiates and regulates sialic acid biosynthesis. Sialic acids are important compounds of mammalian glycoconjugates, mediating several biological processes, such as cell–cell or cell–matrix interactions. In order to characterize the function of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase, a number of deletion mutants were generated, lacking either parts of the N-terminal epimerase or the C-terminal kinase domain. N-terminal deletion of only 39 amino acids results in a complete loss of epimerase activity. Deletions in the C-terminal part result in a reduction or complete loss of kinase activity, depending on the size of the deletion. Deletions at either the N- or the C-terminus also result in a reduction of the other enzyme activity. These results indicate that a separate expression of both domains is possible, but that a strong intramolecular dependency of the two domains has arisen during evolution of the enzyme. N-terminal, as well as C-terminal, mutants tend to form trimers, in addition to the hexameric structure of the native enzyme. These results and yeast two-hybrid experiments show that structures required for dimerization are localized within the kinase domain, and a potential trimerization site is possibly located in a region between the two domains. In conclusion, our results reveal that the activities, as well as the oligomeric structure, of this bifunctional enzyme seem to be organized and regulated in a complex manner.


2004 ◽  
Vol 279 (53) ◽  
pp. 55715-55721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Blume ◽  
Andrew J. Benie ◽  
Florian Stolz ◽  
Richard R. Schmidt ◽  
Werner Reutter ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 390 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan O. Reinke ◽  
Gerhard Lehmer ◽  
Stephan Hinderlich ◽  
Werner Reutter

AbstractThe key enzyme for the biosynthesis ofN-acetylneuraminic acid, from which all other sialic acids are formed, is the bifunctional enzyme UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE). GNE is a highly conserved protein found throughout the animal kingdom. Its highest expression is seen in the liver and placenta. GNE is regulated by a variety of biochemical means, including tetramerization promoted by the substrate UDP-GlcNAc, phosphorylation by protein kinase C and feedback inhibition by CMP-Neu5Ac, which is defect in the human disease sialuria. GNE knock-out in mice leads to embryonic lethality, emphasizing the crucial role of this key enzyme for sialic acid biosynthesis. The metabolic capacity to synthesize sialic acid and CMP-sialic acid upon ManNAc loads is amazingly high. An additional characteristic of GNE is its interaction with proteins involved in the regulation of development, which might play a crucial role in the hereditary inclusion body myopathy. Due to the importance of increased concentrations of tumor-surface sialic acid, first attempts to find inhibitors of GNE have been successful.


2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (Fall) ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Blume ◽  
Andrew J. Benie ◽  
Stephan Hinderlich2 ◽  
Werner Reutter2 ◽  
Richard R. Schmidt3 ◽  
...  

Neuroreport ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1239-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kontou ◽  
Wenke Weidemann ◽  
Christian Bauer ◽  
Werner Reutter ◽  
Rüdiger Horstkorte

2007 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 1585-1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Galeano ◽  
Riko Klootwijk ◽  
Irini Manoli ◽  
MaoSen Sun ◽  
Carla Ciccone ◽  
...  

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