1B0G

HLA-A*02:01 binding "ALWGFFPVL" at 2.50Å resolution

Data provenance

Structure downloaded from PDB Europe using the Coordinate Server. Aligned to residues 1-180 of 1HHK2 using the CEALIGN3 function of PyMol4. Chain assigment using a Levenshtein distance5 method using data from the PDBe REST API6. Organism data from PDBe REST API. Data for both of these operations from the Molecules endpoint. Structure visualised with 3DMol7.

Complex type

Class i with peptide

1. Beta 2 microglobulin

['B', 'E']

2. Class I alpha
HLA-A*02:01

['A', 'D']

3. Peptide
ALWGFFPVL

['C', 'F']

Species

Homo sapiens (Human)

Locus / Allele group

HLA-A / HLA-A*02

Publication

Structural evidence of T cell xeno-reactivity in the absence of molecular mimicry.

Zhao R, Loftus DJ, Appella E, Collins EJ

J. Exp. Med. (1999) 189, 359-70 [doi:10.1084/jem.189.2.359] [pubmed:9892618]

The T cell receptor (TCR), from a xeno-reactive murine cytotoxic T lymphocyte clone AHIII12.2, recognizes murine H-2Db complexed with peptide p1027 (FAPGVFPYM), as well as human HLA-A2.1 complexed with peptide p1049 (ALWGFFPVL). A commonly proposed model (the molecular mimicry model) used to explain TCR cross-reactivity suggests that the molecular surfaces of the recognized complexes are similar in shape, charge, or both, in spite of the primary sequence differences. To examine the mechanism of xeno-reactivity of AHIII12.2, we have determined the crystal structures of A2/p1049 and Db/p1027 to 2.5 A and 2.8 A resolution, respectively. The crystal structures show that the TCR footprint regions of the two class I complexes are significantly different in shape and charge. We propose that rather than simple molecular mimicry, unpredictable arrays of common and differential contacts on the two class I complexes are used for their recognition by the same TCR.

Structure deposition and release

Deposited: 1998-11-09

Released: 1998-11-18

Revised: 2013-07-10

Data provenance

Publication data retrieved from PDBe REST API8 and PMCe REST API9

Other structures from this publication

Peptide details

Length: Nonamer (9 amino acids)

Sequence: ALWGFFPVL

Interactive view

Cutaway side view (static)

Surface top view (static - coloured by atom property)

Cutaway top view (static)

Data provenance

MHC:peptide complexes are visualised using PyMol. The peptide is superimposed on a consistent cutaway slice of the MHC binding cleft (displayed as a grey mesh) which best indicates the binding pockets for the P1/P5/PC positions (side view - pockets A, E, F) and for the P2/P3/PC-2 positions (top view - pockets B, C, D). In some cases peptides will use a different pocket for a specific peptide position (atypical anchoring). On some structures the peptide may appear to sterically clash with a pocket. This is an artefact of picking a standardised slice of the cleft and overlaying the peptide.

Peptide neighbours

P1 ALA

PHE33

LYS66

TYR171

TYR59

TYR7

GLU63

MET5

TYR159

TRP167

P2 LEU

GLU63

HIS70

TYR159

VAL67

TYR99

TYR7

PHE9

LYS66

MET45

P3 TRP

VAL152

TYR99

HIS114

GLN155

LEU156

TYR159

ARG97

HIS70

LYS66

P4 GLY

ARG65

LYS66

P5 PHE

GLN155

ARG97

HIS70

VAL152

P6 PHE

HIS70

ARG65

LYS66

ALA69

THR73

P7 PRO

HIS114

ARG97

THR73

ASP77

VAL152

TRP147

TYR116

P8 VAL

THR143

THR73

ASP77

TRP147

VAL76

LYS146

P9 LEU

LYS146

TYR84

VAL95

ASP77

ILE124

THR143

TRP147

THR80

TYR116

LEU81

TYR123

Colour key

Aromatic Hydrophobic Acidic Basic Neutral/polar

Data provenance

Neighbours are calculated by finding residues with atoms within 5Å of each other using BioPython Neighboursearch module. The list of neighbours is then sorted and filtered to inlcude only neighbours where between the peptide and the MHC Class I alpha chain.

Colours selected to match the YRB scheme. [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2015.00056/full]

Binding cleft pockets

Peptide sidechain binding pockets (static)

Peptide terminii and backbone binding residues (static)

A Pocket

TYR159

THR163

TRP167

TYR171

MET5

TYR59

GLU63

LYS66

TYR7

B Pocket

ALA24

VAL34

MET45

GLU63

LYS66

VAL67

TYR7

HIS70

PHE9

TYR99

C Pocket

HIS70

THR73

HIS74

PHE9

ARG97

D Pocket

HIS114

GLN155

LEU156

TYR159

LEU160

TYR99

E Pocket

HIS114

TRP147

VAL152

LEU156

ARG97

F Pocket

TYR116

TYR123

THR143

LYS146

TRP147

ASP77

THR80

LEU81

TYR84

VAL95

Colour key

Binds N-terminus Binds P1 backbone Binds P2 backbone Binds PC-1 backbone Binds C-terminus

Data provenance

N-/C-terminus and peptide backbone binding residues are assigned according to previously published information and pockets are assigned according to an adaptation of a previously published set of residues. All numbering is currently that of the 'canonical' structures of human and mouse MHC Class I molecules.

Chain sequences

1. Beta 2 microglobulin Beta 2 microglobulin	10 20 30 40 50 60 MIQRTPKIQVYSRHPAENGKSNFLNCYVSGFHPSDIEVDLLKNGERIEKVEHSDLSFSKD 70 80 90 WSFYLLYYTEFTPTEKDEYACRVNHVTLSQPKIVKWDRDM

2. Class I alpha HLA-A02:01 IPD-IMGT/HLA* [ipd-imgt:HLA35266]	10 20 30 40 50 60 GSHSMRYFFTSVSRPGRGEPRFIAVGYVDDTQFVRFDSDAASQRMEPRAPWIEQEGPEYW 70 80 90 100 110 120 DGETRKVKAHSQTHRVDLGTLRGYYNQSEAGSHTVQRMYGCDVGSDWRFLRGYHQYAYDG 130 140 150 160 170 180 KDYIALKEDLRSWTAADMAAQTTKHKWEAAHVAEQLRAYLEGTCVEWLRRYLENGKETLQ 190 200 210 220 230 240 RTDAPKTHMTHHAVSDHEATLRCWALSFYPAEITLTWQRDGEDQTQDTELVETRPAGDGT 250 260 270 FQKWAAVVVPSGQEQRYTCHVQHEGLPKPLTLRWE

3. Peptide	ALWGFFPVL

Data provenance

Sequences are retrieved via the Uniprot method of the RSCB REST API. Sequences are then compared to those derived from the PDB file and matched against sequences retrieved from the IPD-IMGT/HLA database for human sequences, or the IPD-MHC database for other species. Mouse sequences are matched against FASTA files from Uniprot. Sequences for the mature extracellular protein (signal petide and cytoplasmic tail removed) are compared to identical length sequences from the datasources mentioned before using either exact matching or Levenshtein distance based matching.

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Complete structures

Aligned structures [cif]

Components

MHC Class I alpha chain [cif]

MHC Class I antigen binding domain (alpha1/alpha2) [cif]

Peptide only [cif]

Derived data

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Footnotes

Protein Data Bank Europe - Coordinate Server
1HHK - HLA-A*02:01 binding LLFGYPVYV at 2.5Å resolution - PDB entry for 1HHK
Protein structure alignment by incremental combinatorial extension (CE) of the optimal path. - PyMol CEALIGN Method - Publication
PyMol - PyMol.org/pymol
Levenshtein distance - Wikipedia entry
Protein Data Bank Europe REST API - Molecules endpoint
3Dmol.js: molecular visualization with WebGL - 3DMol.js - Publication
Protein Data Bank Europe REST API - Publication endpoint
PubMed Central Europe REST API - Articles endpoint

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