1jto is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Arabian camel and Gallus gallus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
[LYSC_CHICK] Lysozymes have primarily a bacteriolytic function; those in tissues and body fluids are associated with the monocyte-macrophage system and enhance the activity of immunoagents. Has bacteriolytic activity against M.luteus.[1]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
In most of the work dealing with the analysis of protein-protein interfaces, a single X-ray structure is available or selected, and implicitly it is assumed that this structure corresponds to the optimal complex for this pair of proteins. However, we have found a degenerate interface in a high-affinity antibody-antigen complex: the two independent complexes of the camel variable domain antibody fragment cAb-Lys3 and its antigen hen egg white lysozyme present in the asymmetric unit of our crystals show a difference in relative orientation between antibody and antigen, leading to important differences at the protein-protein interface. A third cAb-Lys3-hen lysozyme complex in a different crystal form adopts yet another relative orientation. Our results show that protein-protein interface characteristics can vary significantly between different specimens of the same high-affinity antibody-protein antigen complex. Consideration should be given to this type of observation when trying to establish general protein-protein interface characteristics.
Degenerate interfaces in antigen-antibody complexes.,Decanniere K, Transue TR, Desmyter A, Maes D, Muyldermans S, Wyns L J Mol Biol. 2001 Oct 26;313(3):473-8. PMID:11676532[2]
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↑Maehashi K, Matano M, Irisawa T, Uchino M, Kashiwagi Y, Watanabe T. Molecular characterization of goose- and chicken-type lysozymes in emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae): evidence for extremely low lysozyme levels in emu egg white. Gene. 2012 Jan 15;492(1):244-9. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2011.10.021. Epub 2011 Oct, 25. PMID:22044478 doi:10.1016/j.gene.2011.10.021
↑Decanniere K, Transue TR, Desmyter A, Maes D, Muyldermans S, Wyns L. Degenerate interfaces in antigen-antibody complexes. J Mol Biol. 2001 Oct 26;313(3):473-8. PMID:11676532 doi:10.1006/jmbi.2001.5075
