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  • Title: Enhancement of the endopeptidase activity of purified botulinum neurotoxins A and E by an isolated component of the native neurotoxin associated proteins.
    Author: Sharma SK, Singh BR.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 2004 Apr 27; 43(16):4791-8. PubMed ID: 15096048.
    Abstract:
    In botulism disease, neurotransmitter release is blocked by a group of structurally related neurotoxin proteins produced by Clostridium botulinum. Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT, A-G) enter nerve terminals and irreversibly inhibit exocytosis via their endopeptidase activities against synaptic proteins SNAP-25, VAMP, and Syntaxin. Type A C. botulinum secretes the neurotoxin along with 5 other proteins called neurotoxin associated proteins (NAPs). Here, we report that hemagglutinin-33 (Hn-33), one of the NAP components, enhances the endopeptidase activity of not only BoNT/A but also that of BoNT/E, both under in vitro conditions and in rat synaptosomes. BoNT/A endopeptidase activity in vitro is about twice as high as that of BoNT/E under disulfide-reduced conditions. Addition of Hn-33 separately to nonreduced BoNT/A and BoNT/E (which otherwise have only residual endopeptidase activity) enhanced their in vitro endopeptidase activity by 21- and 25-fold, respectively. Cleavage of rat-brain synaptosome SNAP-25 by BoNTs was used to assay endopeptidase activity under nerve-cell conditions. Reduced BoNT/A and BoNT/E cleaved synaptosomal SNAP-25 by 20% and 15%, respectively. Addition of Hn-33 separately to nonreduced BoNT/A and BoNT/E enhanced their endopeptidase activities by 13-fold for the cleavage of SNAP-25 in synaptosomes, suggesting a possible functional role of Hn-33 in association with BoNTs. We believe that Hn-33 could be used as an activator in the formulation of the neurotoxin for therapeutic use.
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