Natural Killer Cell Activation Receptor NKp30 Oligomerization Depends on Its N-Glycosylation

Skořepa, Ondřej; Pazicky, Samuel; Kalousková, Barbora; Bláha, Jan; Abreu, Celeste; Ječmen, Tomáš; Rosůlek, Michal; Fish, Alexander; Sedivy, Arthur; Harlos, Karl; Dohnálek, Jan; Skálová, Tereza; Vaněk, Ondřej

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Natural Killer Cell Activation Receptor NKp30 Oligomerization Depends on Its N-Glycosylation

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Ondřej Vaněk

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Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Hlavova 2030, 12840 Prague, Czech Republic

BIOCEV, Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Průmyslová 595, 25250 Vestec, Czech Republic

Department of Biochemistry, Oncode Institute, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Protein Technologies, Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities GmbH, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria

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Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK

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BIOCEV, Institute of Biotechnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Průmyslová 595, 25250 Vestec, Czech Republic

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Cancers 2020, 12(7), 1998; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12071998

Received: 15 April 2020 / Revised: 22 June 2020 / Accepted: 14 July 2020 / Published: 21 July 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cancer Immunotherapy Using Natural Killer Cells: Successes and Challenges of the Field)

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NKp30 is one of the main human natural killer (NK) cell activating receptors used in directed immunotherapy. The oligomerization of the NKp30 ligand binding domain depends on the length of the C-terminal stalk region, but our structural knowledge of NKp30 oligomerization and its role in signal transduction remains limited. Moreover, ligand binding of NKp30 is affected by the presence and type of N-glycosylation. In this study, we assessed whether NKp30 oligomerization depends on its N-glycosylation. Our results show that NKp30 forms oligomers when expressed in HEK293S GnTI⁻ cell lines with simple N-glycans. However, NKp30 was detected only as monomers after enzymatic deglycosylation. Furthermore, we characterized the interaction between NKp30 and its best-studied cognate ligand, B7-H6, with respect to glycosylation and oligomerization, and we solved the crystal structure of this complex with glycosylated NKp30, revealing a new glycosylation-induced mode of NKp30 dimerization. Overall, this study provides new insights into the structural basis of NKp30 oligomerization and explains how the stalk region and glycosylation of NKp30 affect its ligand affinity. This furthers our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in NK cell activation, which is crucial for the successful design of novel NK cell-based targeted immunotherapeutics. View Full-Text

Keywords: NK cell; NKp30; B7-H6; glycosylation; oligomerization

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Skořepa, O.; Pazicky, S.; Kalousková, B.; Bláha, J.; Abreu, C.; Ječmen, T.; Rosůlek, M.; Fish, A.; Sedivy, A.; Harlos, K.; Dohnálek, J.; Skálová, T.; Vaněk, O. Natural Killer Cell Activation Receptor NKp30 Oligomerization Depends on Its N-Glycosylation. Cancers 2020, 12, 1998. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12071998

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Skořepa O, Pazicky S, Kalousková B, Bláha J, Abreu C, Ječmen T, Rosůlek M, Fish A, Sedivy A, Harlos K, Dohnálek J, Skálová T, Vaněk O. Natural Killer Cell Activation Receptor NKp30 Oligomerization Depends on Its N-Glycosylation. Cancers. 2020; 12(7):1998. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12071998

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Skořepa, Ondřej, Samuel Pazicky, Barbora Kalousková, Jan Bláha, Celeste Abreu, Tomáš Ječmen, Michal Rosůlek, Alexander Fish, Arthur Sedivy, Karl Harlos, Jan Dohnálek, Tereza Skálová, and Ondřej Vaněk. 2020. "Natural Killer Cell Activation Receptor NKp30 Oligomerization Depends on Its N-Glycosylation" Cancers 12, no. 7: 1998. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12071998

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