HLA-A*02:01 binding "ILKEPVHGV" at 2.50Å resolution
Data provenance
Information sections
- Publication
- Peptide details
- Peptide neighbours
- Binding cleft pockets
- Chain sequences
- Downloadable data
- Data license
- Footnotes
Complex type
HLA-A*02:01
ILKEPVHGV
Species
Locus / Allele group
The antigenic identity of peptide-MHC complexes: a comparison of the conformations of five viral peptides presented by HLA-A2.
Complexes of five peptides (from HIV-1, influenza A virus, HTLV-1, and hepatitis B virus proteins) bound to the human class I MHC molecule HLA-A2 have been studied by X-ray crystallography. While the peptide termini and their second and C-terminal anchor side chains are bound similarly in all five cases, the main chain and side chain conformations of each peptide are strikingly different in the center of the binding site, and these differences are accessible to direct TCR recognition. Each of the central peptide residues is seen to point up for some bound peptides, but down or sideways for others. Thus, although fixed at its ends, the structure of an MHC-bound peptide appears to be a highly complex function of its entire sequence, potentially sensitive to even small sequence differences. In contrast, MHC structural variation is relatively limited. These results offer a structural framework for understanding the role of nonanchor peptide side chains in both peptide-MHC binding affinity and TCR recognition.
Structure deposition and release
Data provenance
Publication data retrieved from PDBe REST API8 and PMCe REST API9
Other structures from this publication
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
ILE
TYR7
TYR171
MET5
THR163
TYR159
TYR59
GLU63
LYS66
TRP167
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P2
LEU
GLU63
LYS66
MET45
VAL67
PHE9
TYR7
HIS70
TYR99
TYR159
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P3
LYS
HIS70
TYR99
TYR159
LYS66
GLN155
LEU156
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P4
GLU
GLN155
ARG65
LYS66
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P5
PRO
GLN155
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P6
VAL
ARG97
THR73
HIS70
|
P7
HIS
VAL152
GLN155
ARG97
THR73
ASP77
TRP147
ALA150
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P8
GLY
THR73
ASP77
TRP147
LYS146
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P9
VAL
THR143
TRP147
TYR123
LYS146
ARG97
THR80
TYR116
LEU81
ASP77
TYR84
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Colour key
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]
A Pocket
TYR159
THR163
TRP167
TYR171
MET5
TYR59
GLU63
LYS66
TYR7
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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
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E Pocket
HIS114
TRP147
VAL152
LEU156
ARG97
|
F Pocket
TYR116
TYR123
THR143
LYS146
TRP147
ASP77
THR80
LEU81
TYR84
VAL95
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Colour key
Data provenance
1. Beta 2 microglobulin
Beta 2 microglobulin
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10 20 30 40 50 60
MIQRTPKIQVYSRHPAENGKSNFLNCYVSGFHPSDIEVDLLKNGERIEKVEHSDLSFSKD 70 80 90 WSFYLLYYTEFTPTEKDEYACRVNHVTLSQPKIVKWDRDM |
2. Class I alpha
HLA-A*02:01
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
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ILKEPVHGV
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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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Data license
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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