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PDBsum entry 2vlr

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Immune system PDB id
2vlr
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Protein chains
276 a.a.
100 a.a.
199 a.a.
240 a.a.
Ligands
GLY-ILE-LEU-GLY-
PHE-VAL-PHE-THR-
LEU
×2
Waters ×583

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Title The structural dynamics and energetics of an immunodominant t cell receptor are programmed by its vbeta domain.
Authors J.Ishizuka, G.B.Stewart-Jones, A.Van der merwe, J.I.Bell, A.J.Mcmichael, E.Y.Jones.
Ref. Immunity, 2008, 28, 171-182.
PubMed id 18275829
Abstract
Immunodominant and public T cell receptor (TCR) usage is relatively common in many viral diseases yet surprising in the context of the large naive TCR repertoire. We examined the highly conserved Vbeta17:Valpha10.2 JM22 T cell response to the influenza matrix peptide (58-66)-HLA-A*0201 (HLA-A2-flu) through extensive kinetic, thermodynamic, and structural analyses. We found several conformational adjustments that accompany JM22-HLA-A2-flu binding and identified a binding "hotspot" within the Vbeta domain of the TCR. Within this hotspot, key germline-encoded CDR1 and CDR2 loop residues and a crucial but commonly coded residue in the hypervariable region of CDR3 provide the basis for the substantial bias in the selection of the germline-encoded Vbeta17 domain. The chances of having a substantial number of T cells in the naive repertoire that have HLA-A2-flu-specific Vbeta17 receptors may consequently be relatively high, thus explaining the immunodominant usage of this clonotype.
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