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PDBsum entry 2z31

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2z31
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Protein chains
112 a.a.
111 a.a.
181 a.a.
188 a.a.
11 a.a.

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Title Structural evidence for a germline-Encoded t cell receptor-Major histocompatibility complex interaction 'Codon'.
Authors D.Feng, C.J.Bond, L.K.Ely, J.Maynard, K.C.Garcia.
Ref. Nat Immunol, 2007, 8, 975-983. [DOI no: 10.1038/ni1502]
PubMed id 17694060
Abstract
All complexes of T cell receptors (TCRs) bound to peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) molecules assume a stereotyped binding 'polarity', despite wide variations in TCR-pMHC docking angles. However, existing TCR-pMHC crystal structures have failed to show broadly conserved pairwise interaction motifs. Here we determined the crystal structures of two TCRs encoded by the variable beta-chain 8.2 (V(beta)8.2), each bound to the MHC class II molecule I-A(u), and did energetic mapping of V(alpha) and V(beta) contacts with I-A(u). Together with two previously solved structures of V(beta)8.2-containing TCR-MHC complexes, we found four TCR-I-A complexes with structurally superimposable interactions between the V(beta) loops and the I-A alpha-helix. This examination of a narrow 'slice' of the TCR-MHC repertoire demonstrates what is probably one of many germline-derived TCR-MHC interaction 'codons'.
Figure 3.
(a) Structures of 1934.4, cl19 and 172.10 from TCR-pMHC complexes superimposed on I-A^u (colors as in Fig. 1). Red dashed lines, hydrogen bonds. (b) Interactions between TCR CDR1 and CDR2 loops and the I-A -helix. Highlighting indicates residues involved in interactions; black dashed lines, van der Waals forces; red dashed lines, hydrogen bonds. Top, interactions of 1934.4.
Figure 5.
Yellow, peptide; red dashed lines, hydrogen bonds; black dashed lines, van der Waals interactions. TCR amino acids are designated by one-letter amino acid code followed by position number; peptide amino acids are designated by position (P) number, followed by the one-letter amino acid code. Below, two-dimensional projections of the CDR3-peptide contacts. (a) The 1934.4 complex. (b) The cl19 complex. (c) The 172.10 complex.
The above figures are reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nat Immunol (2007, 8, 975-983) copyright 2007.
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