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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2024

Experimental and Computational Studies on Domain-Swapped Structure Stabilization of an Antibody Light Chain by Disulfide Bond Introduction.

Wahyu Fitriana, Takahiro Sakai, Lian Duan, Kowit Hengphasatporn, Yasuteru Shigeta, Tsuyoshi Mashima, Taizo Uda, Emi Hifumi, Shun Hirota

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Wahyu FitrianaDivision of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.
Takahiro SakaiDivision of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.
Lian DuanCenter for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan.
Kowit HengphasatpornCenter for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan.
Yasuteru ShigetaCenter for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3219-6007
Tsuyoshi MashimaDivision of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2402-1573
Taizo UdaNanotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies (ISIT), 4-1 Kyudai-Shinmachi, Fukuoka 879-5593, Japan.
Emi HifumiInstitute for Research Management, Oita University, 700 Dannoharu, Oita-Shi, Oita 870-1192, Japan.
Shun HirotaDivision of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3227-8376

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Abstract

Development of different platforms would be useful for designing functional antibodies to improve the efficiency of antibody-based drugs. Three-dimensional domain swapping (3D-DS) may occur in the variable region of antibody light chain #4C214A, and a pair of domain-swapped dimers may interact with each other to form a tetramer. In this study, to stabilize the 3D-DS dimer structure in #4C214A, Val2 in strand A (swapping region) and Thr97 in strand G were replaced with Cys residues, generating #4 V2C/T97C/C214A with a Cys2-Cys97 disulfide bond that cross-links strands A and G of different protomers. The #4 V2C/T97C/C214A tetramer did not dissociate into monomers at low protein concentration (6 μM); however, some of the tetramers were converted to monomers by disulfide bond reduction. Two-dimensional free energy profile analysis for the tetramerization of two 3D-DS dimers was performed by molecular dynamics simulation. These results show that disulfide bond introduction is useful for controlling the dimerization/dissociation of the variable region through 3D-DS.

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DisulfidesImmunoglobulin Light ChainsMolecular Dynamics SimulationHumansProtein DomainsProtein MultimerizationProtein StabilityDisulfidesImmunoglobulin Light Chains

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PMID39656517
PMCPMC11684012

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