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SCIENCE ADVANCES
卷 4, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau1199
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- AMED-CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research Development [JP17gm0610009, JP18gm0610009]
- MEXT [16H06389, 16H05313]
- CREST
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- AMED [JP17am0101001]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H05313, 16H06389] Funding Source: KAKEN
Soluble immunoglobulin M (IgM) forms a pentamer containing a joining (J) chain polypeptide. While IgM pentamer has various immune functions, it also behaves as a carrier of circulating apoptosis inhibitor of macrophage (AIM; also called CD5L) protein that facilitates repair during different diseases. AIM binds to the IgM pentamer solely in the presence of the J chain. Here, using a single-particle negative-stain electron microscopy, we found that the IgM pentamer exhibits an asymmetric pentagon containing one large gap, which is markedly different from the textbook symmetric pentagon model. A single AIM molecule specifically fits into the gap, cross-bridging two IgM-Fc that form the edges of the gap through a disulfide bond at one side and a charge-based interaction at the other side. The discovery of the bona fide shape of the IgM pentamer advances our structural understanding of the pentameric IgM and its binding mode with AIM.
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