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<strong>Proceedings</strong> of the 31 st European Peptide SymposiumMichal Lebl, Morten Meldal, Knud J. Jensen, Thomas Hoeg-Jensen (Editors)European Peptide Society, 2010Mimicry Effect of the Neo-Epitope [Asn 641 (Glc)]FAN(635-655)with CSF114(Glc) Detecting Autoantibodies inMultiple SclerosisShashank Pandey 1,2 , Elisa Peroni 1,3 , Maria Claudia Alcaro 4 ,Fabio Rizzolo 1,2 , Mario Chelli 1,2 , Paolo Rovero 1,2,4 , Francesco Lolli 1,5 ,and Anna Maria Papini 1,2,31 Laboratory of Peptide & Protein Chemistry & Biology, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico,University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy; 2 Department of Chemistry andCNR ICCOM, Via della Lastruccia 3/13, University of Florence, I-50019, Sesto Fiorentino(FI), Italy; 3 Laboratoire SOSCO-EA4505, Universitè de Cergy-Pontoise, Neuville-sur-OiseF-95031, Cergy-Pontoise, France; 4 Toscana Biomarkers Srl, via Fiorentina 1, I-53100,Siena, Italy; 5 Department of Neurological Sciences & Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi,Viale Morgagni 34, University of Florence, I-50134, Firenze, Italy; 6 Department ofPharmaceutical Sciences Via Ugo Schiff University of Florence, I-50019,Sesto Fiorentino (FI), ItalyIntroductionMultiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervoussystem (CNS) whose pathogenesis has not been yet elucidated, even if an autoimmunemechanism against myelin antigens is thought to contribute to its immunopathologicalmechanism. Anyway, the target antigens responsible for inflammation and demyelinationremain elusive. Different self-proteins have been investigated as potential targets for T or Bcells in MS [1-4]. We demonstrated for the first time, the possibility of using theglycosylated peptide CSF114(Glc) to identify specific autoantibodies in Multiple Sclerosispatients’ sera [5,6].We report herein, the mimicry effect of CSF114(Glc) with neo-epitope peptides andthe potential of this artificially N-glucosylated peptide sequence in identifying nativepeptides detecting autoantibodies.Results and DiscussionSome fragments of the nervous system proteins containing N-glycosylation consensus site(Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr) were selected by primary as well as tertiary structure alignment ofCSF114(Glc) using SwissProt database.Selected fragments were peptides of Factor Associated with Neutral sphingomyelinaseactivation Asn 641 FAN(635-655); Oligodendrocyte Myelin glycoprotein Asn 192 OMgp(186-204) and Nogo receptor [Asn 179 ]NogoR(173-191), which displayed 8/21, 3/21, and 5/21residues homology with CSF114(Glc), respectively (Table 1).It was possible to synthesize peptide fragments only by microwave-assisted peptideand glycopeptide synthesis introducing Asn(Glc) at the requested position by the buildingblock approach using Fmoc-Asn(GlcOAc 4 )-OH. The neo-glycopeptides were analyzed inSP-ELISA on sera of clinically definite MS patients (Figure 1a) <strong>com</strong>pared to Normal BloodDonors (data not shown).Table 1. Neo-peptide epitopesGlycosylated peptidesSequences[Asn 641 (Glc)]FAN(635-655) G I T V S R N G S S V F T T S Q D S T L K[Asn 192 (Glc)]OMgp(186-204) T L I N L T N L T H L Y L H N N K F T F I[Asn 179 (Glc)]NogoR(173-191) T F R D L G N L T H L F L H G N R I S S VCSF114(Glc) T P R V E R N G H S V F L A P Y G W M V K(N X T/S)=N-glycosylation consensus sequence4

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