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PDBsum entry 3cfc

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Immune system PDB id
3cfc
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Protein chains
213 a.a.
219 a.a.
Ligands
GOL
Waters ×332

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Title Deeply inverted electron-Hole recombination in a luminescent antibody-Stilbene complex.
Authors E.W.Debler, G.F.Kaufmann, M.M.Meijler, A.Heine, J.M.Mee, G.Pljevaljcic, A.J.Di bilio, P.G.Schultz, D.P.Millar, K.D.Janda, I.A.Wilson, H.B.Gray, R.A.Lerner.
Ref. Science, 2008, 319, 1232-1235. [DOI no: 10.1126/science.1153445]
PubMed id 18309081
Abstract
The blue-emissive antibody EP2-19G2 that has been elicited against trans-stilbene has unprecedented ability to produce bright luminescence and has been used as a biosensor in various applications. We show that the prolonged luminescence is not stilbene fluorescence. Instead, the emissive species is a charge-transfer excited complex of an anionic stilbene and a cationic, parallel pi-stacked tryptophan. Upon charge recombination, this complex generates exceptionally bright blue light. Complex formation is enabled by a deeply penetrating ligand-binding pocket, which in turn results from a noncanonical interface between the two variable domains of the antibody.
Figure 2.
Fig. 2. Electrostatic and shape complementarity of the hapten 1 in (A) the EP2-25C10 and (B) the EP2-19G2 antibody-combining site. Slices through the center of the binding sites are shown. The heavy and light chains are colored in blue and green, respectively. The electrostatic potential was calculated in APBS (30) and mapped onto the surface with the color code ranging from –30 kT/e (bright red) to +30 kT/e (dark blue). Both binding pockets are highly apolar, but strongly differ in their depth and penetration of the variable antibody domain. (C) Crystal structure of purple-fluorescent antibody EP2-25C10 in complex with 1 (yellow). The 2F[o] – F[c] electron density map around hapten 1 is contoured at 1.5 . (D) Crystal structure of the blue-emissive antibody EP2-19G2 in complex with 1 (yellow) (4). Trp^H103 undergoes parallel -stacking with 1 and forms a charge-transfer complex in the excited state. In contrast, stilbene 1 in EP2-25C10 does not engage in any -stacking interactions with tryptophan.
Figure 5.
Scheme 1.
The above figures are reprinted by permission from the AAAs: Science (2008, 319, 1232-1235) copyright 2008.
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