Synthetic GlcNAc-terminated thiourea-bridged glycoclusters were found to be potent inhibitors of binding of the soluble dimeric receptor of rat natural killer cells, sNKR-P1A protein, to its high affinity ligand. Moreover, we have shown here that characteristic precipitation curves can be recorded upon mixing of the GlcNAc glycoclusters with sNKR-P1A. For the GlcNAc8 glycocluster the precipitation curve is biphasic, with high affinity and low affinity precipitates differing in their sensitivity towards GlcNAc-mediated inhibition of precipitation. Quantitative analyses of the precipitates indicate the occurrence of a single sugar binding site per sNKR-P1A subunit, and lead to a model of the most possible spatial arrangements of the glycocluster-receptor lattices. These results provide new tools for further studies on carbohydrate recognition by NKR-P1A.

Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Science Charles University Prague Phaha Czech Republic

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