5cjo
From Proteopedia
Crystal Structure Analysis of Elbow-Engineered-Fab-Bound Human Insulin Degrading Enzyme (IDE) in Complex with Insulin
Structural highlights
FunctionIDE_HUMAN Plays a role in the cellular breakdown of insulin, IAPP, glucagon, bradykinin, kallidin and other peptides, and thereby plays a role in intercellular peptide signaling. Degrades amyloid formed by APP and IAPP. May play a role in the degradation and clearance of naturally secreted amyloid beta-protein by neurons and microglia.[1] [2] [3] Publication Abstract from PubMedAntibody Fab fragments have been exploited with significant success to facilitate the structure determination of challenging macromolecules as crystallization chaperones and as molecular fiducial marks for single particle cryo-electron microscopy approaches. However, the inherent flexibility of the "elbow" regions, which link the constant and variable domains of the Fab, can introduce disorder and thus diminish their effectiveness. We have developed a phage display engineering strategy to generate synthetic Fab variants that significantly reduces elbow flexibility, while maintaining their high affinity and stability. This strategy was validated using previously recalcitrant Fab-antigen complexes where introduction of an engineered elbow region enhanced crystallization and diffraction resolution. Furthermore, incorporation of the mutations appears to be generally portable to other synthetic antibodies and may serve as a universal strategy to enhance the success rates of Fabs as structure determination chaperones. Locking the Elbow: Improved Antibody Fab Fragments as Chaperones for Structure Determination.,Bailey LJ, Sheehy KM, Dominik PK, Liang WG, Rui H, Clark M, Jaskolowski M, Kim Y, Deneka D, Tang WJ, Kossiakoff AA J Mol Biol. 2017 Dec 19. pii: S0022-2836(17)30593-4. doi:, 10.1016/j.jmb.2017.12.012. PMID:29273204[4] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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