Rapid ligand fishing for identification of acetylcholinesterase-binding peptides in snake venom reveals new properties of dendrotoxins.

Vanzolini, Kenia Lourenço, Ainsworth, Stuart ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0199-6482, Bruyneel, Ben, Herzig, Volker, Seraus, Mitchell G L, Somsen, Govert W, Casewell, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8035-4719, Cass, Quezia Bezerra and Kool, Jeroen (2018) 'Rapid ligand fishing for identification of acetylcholinesterase-binding peptides in snake venom reveals new properties of dendrotoxins.'. Toxicon, Vol 152, pp. 1-8.

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Abstract

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) from Electrophorus electricus (eel) was immobilized on the surface of amino-modified paramagnetic beads to serve as a model for the development, validation and application of a new affinity-based ligand-fishing assay for the discovery of bioactive peptides from complex protein mixtures such as venoms. Nano liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (nanoLC-MS) was used for the analysis of trapped peptides. Using enzyme-functionalized beads, the ligand-fishing assay was evaluated and optimized using a peptide reference mixture composed of one acetylcholinesterase binder (fasciculin-II) and five non-binders (mambalgin-1, angiotensin-II, bradykinin, cardiotoxin and α-bungarotoxin). As proof of concept, snake venom samples spiked with fasciculin-II demonstrated assay selectivity and sensitivity, fishing the peptide binder from complex venom solutions at concentrations as low as 1.0 μg/mL. As negative controls for method validation, venoms of four different snake species, not known to harbor AChE binding peptides, were screened and no AChE binders were detected. The applicability of the ligand fishing assay was subsequently demonstrated with venom from the black mamba, Jameson's mamba and western green mamba (Dendroaspis spp.), which have previously been reported to contain the AChE binding fasciculins. Unknown peptides (i.e. not fasciculins) with affinity to AChE were recovered from all mamba venoms tested. Tryptic digestion followed by nano-LC-MS analysis of the material recovered from black mamba venom identified the peptide with highest AChE-binding affinity as dendrotoxin-I, a pre-synaptic neurotoxin previously not known to interact with AChE. Co-incubation of AChE with various dendrotoxins in vitro revealed reduced inactivation of AChE activity over time, thus demonstrating that these toxins stabilise AChE. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.]

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	QV Pharmacology > Autonomic Agents. Nonmetallic Elements. Neuromuscular Agents > QV 120 Autonomic agents WD Disorders of Systemic, Metabolic or Environmental Origin, etc > Animal Poisons > WD 410 Reptiles
Faculty: Department:	Biological Sciences > Department of Tropical Disease Biology
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2018.06.080
SWORD Depositor:	JISC Pubrouter
Depositing User:	Stacy Murtagh
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2018 13:46
Last Modified:	26 Jul 2018 09:14
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/8950

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