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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
卷 205, 期 4, 页码 939-949出版社
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20072141
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI057519, R01 AI057485, AI057485, R01 AI057519, R01 AI057485-04] Funding Source: Medline
Although it has been established how CD1 binds a variety of lipid antigens (Ag), data are only now emerging that show how alpha beta T cell receptors ( TCRs) interact with CD1-Ag. Using the structure of the human semiinvariant NKT TCR-CD1d-alpha-galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer) complex as a guide, we undertook an alanine scanning mutagenesis approach to define the energetic basis of this interaction between the NKT TCR and CD1d. Moreover, we explored how analogues of alpha-GalCer affected this interaction. The data revealed that an identical energetic footprint underpinned the human and mouse NKT TCR-CD1d-alpha-GalCer crossreactivity. Some, but not all, of the contact residues within the J alpha 18-encoded invariant CDR3 alpha loop and V beta 11-encoded CDR2 beta loop were critical for recognizing CD1d. The residues within the V alpha 24-encoded CDR1 alpha and CDR3 alpha loops that contacted the glycolipid Ag played a smaller energetic role compared with the NKT TCR residues that contacted CD1d. Collectively, our data reveal that the region distant to the protruding Ag and directly above the F' pocket of CD1d was the principal factor in the interaction with the NKT TCR. Accordingly, although the structural footprint at the NKT TCR - CD1d-alpha-GalCer is small, the energetic footprint is smaller still, and reveals the minimal requirements for CD1d restriction.
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