Immunochemical and crystallographic studies of antibody D1.3 in its free, antigen-liganded, and idiotope-bound states.
Immunochemical and crystallographic studies of antibody D1.3 in its free, antigen-liganded, and idiotope-bound states.
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对游离、抗原配体和独特位结合状态的抗体 D1.3 进行免疫化学和晶体学研究。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1989.054.01.030
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1989
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Tello,D
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Bentley,GA;Bhat,TN;Boulot,G;Fischmann,T;Navaza,J;Poljak,RJ;Riottot,MM;Tello,D
The three-dimensional structure of several Fab fragments from human immunoglobulins and murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have been determined by X-ray crystallography (for review, see Amzel and Poljak 1979; Davies and Metzger 1983; Alzari et al. 1988). Further analyses of the steric structure of the antigen-combining site of antibodies were made possible by the X-ray diffraction studies of two Fab complexes with the haptens phosphorylcholine (Segal et al. 1974) and vitamin K1OH (Amzel et al. 1974). Although these studies have contributed much to our current understanding of antibody structure and specificity, several questions relating to antigen-antibody reactions remained unanswered until the recent structural studies of Fab-antigen complexes by X-ray crystallographic techniques (Amit et al. 1986; Colman et al. 1987; Sheriff et al. 1987). These studies converged in defining the topographical or discontinuous nature of antigenic determinants (or epitopes), the area of the antigen-antibody interface, and the chemical nature of their interactions (for review, see Colman 1988; Davies et al. 1988). A question that has remained unresolved, however, concerns the possibility of conformational changes in the antibody molecule upon binding to antigen. This has been largely due to the lack of success in crystallizing unliganded Fabs to provide the necessary structural comparison between their free and antigen-bound forms.A model antigen, hen egg white lysozyme (HEL), has been used in our laboratory to obtain monoclonal antibodies produced during the course of a secondary response in BALB/c mice (Harper et al. 1987). These antibodies have been systematically employed to explore possible crystallization conditions of Fab-HEL complexes. Several crystalline antigen-antibody complexes have now been obtained (Mariuzza et al. 1983; Fischmann et al. 1988), including one with a crossreacting antigen, pheasant egg white lysozyme (Guillon et al. 1987). The successful X-ray crystallographic analysis of one of these, the FabD1. 3-HEL complex (Amit et ai. 1985, 1986), prompted us to intensify efforts to crystallize the unliganded FabD1. 3 to establish whether significant conformational changes do occur in the antibody upon binding antigen. In this paper, we report the crystallization of FabD1. 3 and the current progress of