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ArticleJournal of molecular recognition : JMR2018

Local and global anatomy of antibody-protein antigen recognition.

Meryl Wang, David Zhu, Jianwei Zhu, Ruth Nussinov, Buyong Ma

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Article in Journal of molecular recognition : JMR, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Meryl WangBasic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc, Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA.
David ZhuBasic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc, Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA.
Jianwei ZhuSchool of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Ruth NussinovBasic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc, Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA.
Buyong MaBasic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc, Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7383-719X
Leidos (United States) · USShanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Funding

Protein Structure, Stability, and Amyloid FormationZIABC010440 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2009 to 2025
$11.8M
Method Development: Efficient Computer Vision Based AlgorithmsZIABC010442 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2009 to 2025
$2.4M
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CNCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001E
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deciphering antibody-protein antigen recognition is of fundamental and practical significance. We constructed an antibody structural dataset, partitioned it into human and murine subgroups, and compared it with nonantibody protein-protein complexes. We investigated the physicochemical properties of regions on and away from the antibody-antigen interfaces, including net charge, overall antibody charge distributions, and their potential role in antigen interaction. We observed that amino acid preference in antibody-protein antigen recognition is entropy driven, with residues having low side-chain entropy appearing to compensate for the high backbone entropy in interaction with protein antigens. Antibodies prefer charged and polar antigen residues and bridging water molecules. They also prefer positive net charge, presumably to promote interaction with negatively charged protein antigens, which are common in proteomes. Antibody-antigen interfaces have large percentages of Tyr, Ser, and Asp, but little Lys. Electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions in the Ag binding sites might be coupled with Fab domains through organized charge and residue distributions away from the binding interfaces. Here we describe some features of antibody-antigen interfaces and of Fab domains as compared with nonantibody protein-protein interactions. The distributions of interface residues in human and murine antibodies do not differ significantly. Overall, our results provide not only a local but also a global anatomy of antibody structures.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsAntibodiesAntigen-Antibody ComplexBinding SitesDatabases, ProteinEntropyHumansHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsMiceModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein ConformationStatic ElectricityV(D)J RecombinationAntibodiesAntigen-Antibody ComplexImmunoglobulin Fab Fragmentsallosteric regulationantibody-antigen recognitionbinding epitopesmAb drugsprotein-protein interaction

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PMCPMC5903993
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