Diphtheria toxin-receptor interaction: A polyphosphate-insensitive diphtheria toxin-binding domain

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Abstract

Inositol hexaphosphate, and other polyphosphates, inhibit diphtheria toxin-mediated cytotoxicity by binding to the toxin at a highly cationic site called the P site and preventing toxin binding to cell surface receptors. The binding of diphtheria toxin to a solubilized cell surface glycoprotein (150,000 daltons) is also inhibited by these polyphosphates. Treatment of this 150,000 dalton diphtheria toxin-binding cell surface glycoprotein with papain yielded an 88,000 dalton and a 74,000 dalton diphtheria toxin-binding glycoprotein whose binding to toxin was no longer inhibited by inositol hexaphosphate. This result suggests a model of diphtheria toxin-receptor interaction in which the toxin receptor possesses one binding site which interacts with the P site of the toxin in a polyphosphate-sensitive fashion, and another binding site (located within the papain-derived 74,000–88,000 dalton glycoproteins) which can interact with the toxin at a site distinct from the P site (the X site) in a polyphosphate-insensitive fashion. This X site-receptor interaction may be involved in the binding of CRM proteins that bind to the toxin receptor but that do not bind polyphosphates, or it may be involved in the entry process of the toxin.

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