2bx5

Is FR1 the antibody's Achillies heel

spinqualitylabelsall models 2bx5, resolution 2.70Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2bx5 is a 15 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.7Å Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function Q9UL77_HUMAN Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed Antibodies are the archetypal molecules of the Ig-fold superfamily. Their highly conserved beta-sheet architecture has evolved to avoid aggregation by protecting edge strands. However, the crystal structure of a human V kappa domain described here, reveals an exposed beta-edge strand which mediates assembly of a helical pentadecameric oligomer. This edge strand is highly conserved in V kappa domains but is both shortened and capped by the use of two sequential trans-proline residues in V lambda domains. We suggest that the exposure of this beta-edge in V kappa domains may explain why light-chain deposition disease is mediated predominantly by kappa antibodies. Beta-edge interactions in a pentadecameric human antibody V kappa domain.,James LC, Jones PC, McCoy A, Tennent GA, Pepys MB, Famm K, Winter G J Mol Biol. 2007 Mar 30;367(3):603-8. Epub 2006 Nov 3. PMID:17292396 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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