BC2L-A

Ca2+-dependent lectin from Burkholderia cenocepacia specific to α-mannosides (α1-2, α1-3, α1-6)

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GL-002 BC2L-A lectin lyophilized 1 mg 10 12854 160 EUR
5 mg 6 12854 720 EUR
5x 1 mg 2 12854 720 EUR
10 mg - 12854 1360 EUR
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Basic information:

Name: BC2L-A (BclA)
Organism: Burkholderia cenocepacia
Expression host: Escherichia coli
Tags: no
Molar mass (monomer): 13764.1 Da
Extinction coefficient: 8480 M-1 cm-1
Oligomeric state: dimer
PDB code: 2WRA (with Man3)

Protein sequence:
ADSQTSSNRAGEFSIPPNTDFRAIFFANAAEQQHIKLFIGDSQEPAAYHKLTTRDGPREATLNSGNGKIRFEVSVNGKPSATDARLAPINGKKSDGSPFTVNFGIVVSEDGHDSDYNDGIVVLQWPIG

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Carbohydrate specificity:

BC2L-A lectin (formerly BclA) is specific to α-mannosides. It binds d-mannose, various mannosylated oligosaccharides, and oligomannose-type N-glycans without particular preference for the linkage types (α1-2, α1-3, α1-6) [1]. BC2L-A binds heptoses (in manno- configuration) from the Burkholderia cell wall lipopolysaccharide, but with lower affinities than d-mannose and its derivatives [2].

Ion dependency: Ca2+-dependent
Glycan array data: CFG web pages

Stability:

Stable in a variety of buffers with pH 4.5-9.5. For example, Tris, Hepes, MES, and phosphate are suitable buffers for BCL-A. Since the presence of calcium ions in the binding site is required for lectin activity, adding calcium ions (0.1-0.5 mM CaCl2) to the working buffer is recommended. Avoid EDTA and other chelating agents as they lead to removing Ca2+ ions from the binding site and losing lectin activity. After reconstitution, the protein should be stable in the fridge for weeks. Adding sodium azide (0.02%) is recommended to avoid microbial growth.

Tm = 87 °C (DSC, 20 mM Tris, 100 mM NaCl, 0.1 mM CaCl2, pH 7.5) [1]

Applications and biological effects:

BC2L-A can be used, for example, in lectin blotting, fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, and lectin histochemistry experiments to study glycosylation of proteins, cells, and tissues. It can be used to isolate specifically mannosylated glycans and glycoproteins (using, e.g., lectin affinity chromatography). BC2L-A lectin is also present in commercial lectin microarrays.

In addition, BC2L-A was recently used to enrich C- and O-mannosylated peptides from the tryptic digests of cell extracts before mass spectrometry analysis [3].

References:

  1. Lameignere, Malinovská et al, Biochem J, 2008, doi: 10.1042/bj20071276
  2. Marchetti, Malinovská et al, Glycobiology, 2012, doi: 10.1093/glycob/cws105
  3. Hütte et al, Anal Chem, 2022, doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00742

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