Publication Date:
2012-09-18
Description:
Immune recognition of protein antigens relies on the combined interaction of multiple antibody loops, which provide a fairly large footprint and constrain the size and shape of protein surfaces that can be targeted. Single protein loops can mediate extremely high-affinity binding, but it is unclear whether such a mechanism is available to antibodies. Here we report the isolation and characterization of an antibody called C05, which neutralizes strains from multiple subtypes of influenza A virus, including H1, H2 and H3. X-ray and electron microscopy structures show that C05 recognizes conserved elements of the receptor-binding site on the haemagglutinin surface glycoprotein. Recognition of the haemagglutinin receptor-binding site is dominated by a single heavy-chain complementarity-determining region 3 loop, with minor contacts from heavy-chain complementarity-determining region 1, and is sufficient to achieve nanomolar binding with a minimal footprint. Thus, binding predominantly with a single loop can allow antibodies to target small, conserved functional sites on otherwise hypervariable antigens.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538848/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538848/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ekiert, Damian C -- Kashyap, Arun K -- Steel, John -- Rubrum, Adam -- Bhabha, Gira -- Khayat, Reza -- Lee, Jeong Hyun -- Dillon, Michael A -- O'Neil, Ryann E -- Faynboym, Aleksandr M -- Horowitz, Michael -- Horowitz, Lawrence -- Ward, Andrew B -- Palese, Peter -- Webby, Richard -- Lerner, Richard A -- Bhatt, Ramesh R -- Wilson, Ian A -- GM080209/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HHSN266200700010C/PHS HHS/ -- P01 AI058113/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01AI058113/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P41 RR017573/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM080209/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U01 AI070373/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U01AI070373/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM094586/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54-AI057158/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Y1-CO-1020/CO/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Y1-GM-1104/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Sep 27;489(7417):526-32. doi: 10.1038/nature11414. Epub 2012 Sep 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22982990" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Neutralizing/*chemistry/genetics/*immunology
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Antibodies, Viral/*chemistry/genetics/*immunology
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Antibody Specificity/genetics/*immunology
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Antigens, Viral/chemistry/immunology
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Binding Sites
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Complementarity Determining Regions/chemistry/genetics/immunology
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Conserved Sequence
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Cross Reactions/genetics/immunology
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
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Epitopes/chemistry/immunology
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Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/chemistry/immunology
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Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/chemistry/immunology
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Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype/chemistry/immunology
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Influenza A virus/chemistry/*classification/*immunology
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Influenza Vaccines/immunology
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Mice
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation/genetics
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Orthomyxoviridae Infections/immunology/prevention & control/virology
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Protein Conformation
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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