Shiga Toxin

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Toxin structure and design of therapeutics Pertussis toxin vaccine design Shiga-like toxin drug design

The A-B Class of Toxins • • •

A (active) subunit: toxic enzymatic activity B (binding) subunit: binding to cell surface Examples: • • • • •

pertussis toxin (A1; B is heteropentamer) Shiga toxin family (A1B5) cholera toxin family (A1B5) diphtheria toxin (A1B1) ricin (A1B1)

A:B toxin mechanism

bacterium

host cell

Pertussis toxin structure and vaccine design

Pertussis toxin • •

Produced by Bordetella pertussis Essential part of whooping cough vaccines •



Acellular vaccines cause fewer reactions • •



but blamed for bad reactions to killed whole-cell vaccines contain chemically-detoxified pertussis toxin but immunogenicity may be reduced

Goal: design genetically-detoxified PT for use in next generation acellular vaccines

Pertussis toxin: A and B components •

Single A-subunit (S1) • •



ADP-ribosyltransferase activity Transfers ADP-ribose from NAD to Giα subunit of heterotrimeric G-proteins

B-subunit is heteropentamer (S2/S4,S3/S4,S5) •

binds to sialylated glycoproteins

B-subunit of pertussis toxin

Sialyl-lactose binding

Sialyl-lactose binding

ATP binding

A:B toxin mechanism

bacterium

host cell

Active site

Structural studies on enzyme mechanism • • •

PhD project of Mykhaylo Demydchuk Engineer S1 (A-subunit) to be its own substrate New structures show substrate and product binding •

first glimpse at peptide bound to any ADP-ribosyltransferase

Pertussis toxin vaccine design •

Engineer to preserve epitopes, eliminate activity • • •

cell binding dissociation active site residues

Collaborators on pertussis toxin work •

Structural work: • • • •



Penny Stein Bart Hazes Amechand Boodhoo Mykhaylo Demydchuk

University of Alberta

University of Cambridge

Biochemistry: • •

Glen Armstrong Stephen Cockle

University of Alberta Connaught Laboratories (now Sanofi Pasteur)

Shiga-like toxin structure and drug design

E. coli food poisoning • •

Infection by enterohaemorrhagic E. coli Clinical course • •

Diarrhea, possibly with blood (haemorrhagic colitis) Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

Pathogenesis of E. coli food poisoning •

Relevant strains all produce Shiga-like toxins •



particularly O157:H7

Toxin-mediated cell damage • •

leads to thrombosis in microvasculature site of damage determines pathology

Possible treatments for E. coli food poisoning • • • •

Supportive therapy Antibiotics? Anti-diarrheal agents? Specific drugs?

Shiga-like toxins •

Shiga toxin family • •

Shigella dysenteriae-1: Shiga toxin Escherichia coli: Shiga-like toxins (SLTs) • •



AB5 subunit structure •

A-subunit attacks ribosome enzymatically •





SLT-I - nearly identical to Shiga toxin SLT-II variants - ~60% identity to SLT-I

related to ricin

B-subunit binds to cell-surface glycolipid: Gb3 or Gb4

Drug target: A or B?

Gb3: SLT receptor •

Location of receptor determines pathology

host cell

Strategies to exploit Gb3 binding • •

Block cell-surface binding Sequester toxin in digestive tract •

Pk-Synsorb

Side chains conserved in Shiga-like toxin family Side chains that vary in Shiga-like toxin family

Gb3 and Pk-MCO

Site 1 of SLT-IB:Gb3 complex

Site 2 of SLT-IB:Gb3 complex

Site 3 of SLT-IB:Gb3 complex

Relative importance of binding sites Binding site mutated

Mutation

Relative cytotoxicity

None



1

1 1

Asp17Glu Phe30Ala

10-3 10-5

2 2 2

Ala56Tyr Gly62Thr Gly62Ala

10-2 10-6 10-5

3

Trp34Ala

10-1

Site 2 is best for soluble Pk • •

Site 2 binding is strongest in crystal Site 2 binding is strongest in solution •



NMR (Steve Homans)

One site has >10-fold higher affinity • •

isothermal calorimetry (Eric Toone) mass spec (Dave Bundle)

Design of new ligands •

Based on Gb3 trisaccharide? •

isolated Pk-trisaccharide binds weakly (10mM)

Improving on Pk trisaccharide •

Increase valency • •



toxin binds up to 15 glycolipids on cell surface sites 1 and 2 are close together

Find novel non-carbohydrate ligands

Designing a bridge

Bridge-starfish molecule

Influence of valency on binding 1 0.01 1E-04 1E-06 1E-08 1E-10

Pk

Bridge

Starfish

Bridge Starfish

Half of bridge-starfish complex

Bridge-starfish complex

In vivo tests of Starfish compound • •

Starfish is non-toxic Co-administered Starfish protected mice against action of SLT-I •



didn’t protect against SLT-II

Related “Daisy” compound protected against both SLT-I and SLT-II

Future possibilities • •

New bridged carbohydrates Docking and screening of non-carbohydrate compounds

Collaborators on Shiga-like toxin work •

Structural work: • • • • • •



University of Alberta

University of Cambridge

Carbohydrates: • • •



Penny Stein Hong Ling Allan Sharp Amechand Boodhoo Raj Pannu Roger Dodd Glen Armstrong Dave Bundle Pavel Kitov

University of Alberta

Biochemistry: •

Jim Brunton

University of Toronto

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