Molecular basis for disruption of E-cadherin adhesion by botulinum neurotoxin A complex

Author:

Lee Kwangkook1,Zhong Xiaofen2,Gu Shenyan1,Kruel Anna Magdalena3,Dorner Martin B.4,Perry Kay5,Rummel Andreas3,Dong Min2,Jin Rongsheng1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

2. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Division of Neuroscience, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA 01772, USA.

3. Institut für Toxikologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.

4. Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens–Biological Toxins (ZBS3), Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany.

5. Northeastern Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT) and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Building 436E, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.

Abstract

Breaking through the epithelial barrier Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) poisons its host when it crosses the intestinal epithelial barrier. To help it cross this barrier, the toxin forms a large complex with three bacterial proteins called hemagglutinins (HAs). To find out what happens when this complex binds to a cell-adhesion protein called E-cadherin, Lee et al. crystallized the bound complex and protein. Toxin binding disrupted the way E-cadherin maintains the epithelial barrier. When the researchers prevented the toxin complex from binding to E-cadherin, mice were protected from the toxin's deadly effects. Science , this issue p. 1405

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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