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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 21, Pages 5611-5624Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.21.5611
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antigen recognition; complex; MHC class II; T-cell receptor; X-ray crystallography
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An ap T-cen receptor (alpha beta TCR)/hemagglutinin (HA) peptide/human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR1 complex was stabilized by flexibly linking the HA peptide,vith the human HA1.7 alpha beta TCR, to increase the local concentration of the interacting proteins once the peptide has been loaded onto the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule. The structure of the complex, determined by X-ray crystallography, has a binding mode similar to that of the human B7 alpha beta TCR on a pMBCI molecule. Twelve of the 15 MHC residues contacted are at the same positions observed earlier in class I MHC/peptide/TCR complexes. One contact? to an MHC loop outside the peptide-binding site, is conserved and specific to pMHCII complexes. TCR gene usage in the response to HA/HLA-DR appears to conserve charged interactions between three lysines of the peptide and acidic residues on the TCR.
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