| Literature DB >> 30344107 |
Brandon Frenz1, Sebastian Rämisch2, Andrew J Borst3, Alexandra C Walls3, Jared Adolf-Bryfogle2, William R Schief2, David Veesler3, Frank DiMaio4.
Abstract
Recent advances in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) have resulted in determination of an increasing number of protein structures with resolved glycans. However, existing protocols for the refinement of glycoproteins at low resolution have failed to keep up with these advances. As a result, numerous deposited structures contain glycan stereochemical errors. Here, we describe a Rosetta-based approach for both cryoEM and X-ray crystallography refinement of glycoproteins that is capable of correcting conformational and configurational errors in carbohydrates. Building upon a previous Rosetta framework, we introduced additional features and score terms enabling automatic detection, setup, and refinement of glycan-containing structures. We benchmarked this approach using 12 crystal structures and showed that glycan geometries can be automatically improved while maintaining good fit to the crystallographic data. Finally, we used this method to refine carbohydrates of the human coronavirus NL63 spike glycoprotein and of an HIV envelope glycoprotein, demonstrating its usefulness for cryoEM refinement.Entities:
Keywords: cryoEM; glycans; glycoproteins; refinement
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30344107 PMCID: PMC6616339 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2018.09.006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Structure ISSN: 0969-2126 Impact factor: 5.006
Figure 1Anomalies in Low-Resolution Crystal Structures from the PDB Resolved with Rosetta Glycan Refinement
(A) Mannose shown in common ring conformations that can be interconverted ranked by energy. Glycan sugar conformations should always be modeled as chairs unless there is strong evidence to the contrary.
(B) Two anomeric forms are shown, alpha with the glycosidic oxygen and the C5 carbon in trans, and beta in cis. The anomeric carbon is circled in red.
(C) Fucose 507 of PDB: 5NSC has an incorrect anomeric connection in the input (magenta), and this is resolved in the refined model (blue).
(D) Fucose 507 of PDB: 5K65 is in a high-energy ring conformation, and this is resolved in the refined model.
(E) Asp 297 of chain B in PDB: 5K65 fails to form a glycosidic bond to the N-acetyl glucosamine. This is resolved in the output model, and the connection can be seen in the density after rephasing. All density maps are shown at a threshold of 1.
Anomalies in Deposited Structures of Glycoprotein Conjugates
| PDB ID | # of Glycans | Reported Resolution (Å) | Original Model | Phenix Refined | Phenix + Privateer | Rosetta Model | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrong Anomer | High-Energy Ring | Wrong Anomer | High-Energy Ring | Wrong Anomer | High-Energy Ring | Wrong Anomer | High-Energy Ring | |||
| 11 | 2.87 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 3.11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 1.95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | 2.55 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 15 | 1.97 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 2.3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | 2.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | 2.6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 21 | 2.75 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 133 | 4 | 23 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
This table shows the resolution of the experimental data as well as the number of incorrect anomers and high-energy ring conformations, as reported by Privateer, for each structure in our benchmark set of crystal structures before and after refinement with the three different methods, Phenix refinement alone, Phenix-Privateer (when high-energy ring conformations are present in the input), and Phenix-Rosetta glycan refinement. Cells marked NA are those for which Privateer constraints are not generated as no high-energy conformations are detected in the input.
Figure 2Correcting High-Energy Glycans in cryoEM Structures
(A) The unfavorable glycosidic bond between asparagine 241 and N-acetyl glucosamine 1,404 of NL63 (magenta) is resolved in the refined model (blue).
(B) The poor fit to the density of the glycan chain and disconnected glycosidic bond of asparagine 1,174 in the NL63 input model is resolved during refinement.
(C) The high-energy, envelope, ring conformation of mannose 1,428 of NL63, center, is resolved during refinement.
(D) NAG 1,301 of HIV does not form a proper glycosidic bond, and the glycans of the chain do not fit the density in the input (magenta). These issues are resolved in the refined model (blue).
(E) NAG 1,386 of HIV has an unfavorable glycosidic bond angle (magenta), which is resolved in the refined model (blue).
(F) MAN 1,200 of HIV fits the density poorly and the glycosidic bond angle is unfavorable (magenta). In the output model (blue) these issues are resolved.
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