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Bimodal modulation of the botulinum neurotoxin protein-conducting channel.


ABSTRACT: Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is the causative agent of botulism, a neuroparalytic disease. We describe here a semisynthetic strategy to identify inhibitors based on toosendanin, a traditional Chinese medicine reported to protect from BoNT intoxication. Using a single molecule assay of BoNT serotypes A and E light chain (LC) translocation through the heavy chain (HC) channel in neurons, we discovered that toosendanin and its tetrahydrofuran analog selectively arrest the LC translocation step of intoxication with subnanomolar potency, and increase the unoccluded HC channel propensity to open with micromolar efficacy. The inhibitory profile on LC translocation is accurately recapitulated in 2 different BoNT intoxication assays, namely the mouse protection and the primary rat spinal cord cell assays. Toosendanin has an unprecedented dual mode of action on the protein-conducting channel acting as a cargo-dependent inhibitor of translocation and as cargo-free channel activator. These results imply that the bimodal modulation by toosendanin depends on the dynamic interactions between channel and cargo, highlighting their tight interplay during the progression of LC transit across endosomes.

SUBMITTER: Fischer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2635780 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bimodal modulation of the botulinum neurotoxin protein-conducting channel.

Fischer Audrey A   Nakai Yuya Y   Eubanks Lisa M LM   Clancy Colin M CM   Tepp William H WH   Pellett Sabine S   Dickerson Tobin J TJ   Johnson Eric A EA   Janda Kim D KD   Montal Mauricio M  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090121 5


Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is the causative agent of botulism, a neuroparalytic disease. We describe here a semisynthetic strategy to identify inhibitors based on toosendanin, a traditional Chinese medicine reported to protect from BoNT intoxication. Using a single molecule assay of BoNT serotypes A and E light chain (LC) translocation through the heavy chain (HC) channel in neurons, we discovered that toosendanin and its tetrahydrofuran analog selectively arrest the LC translocatio  ...[more]

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