H2-Kb binding "KVITFIDL" at 2.30Å resolution
Data provenance
Information sections
- Publication
- Peptide details
- Peptide neighbours
- Binding cleft pockets
- Chain sequences
- Downloadable data
- Data license
- Footnotes
Complex type
H2-Kb
KVITFIDL
Species
Locus / Allele group
A T cell receptor CDR3beta loop undergoes conformational changes of unprecedented magnitude upon binding to a peptide/MHC class I complex.
The elongated complementary-determining region (CDR) 3beta found in the unliganded KB5-C20 TCR protrudes from the antigen binding site and prevents its docking onto the peptide/MHC (pMHC) surface according to a canonical diagonal orientation. We now present the crystal structure of a complex involving the KB5-C20 TCR and an octapeptide bound to the allogeneic H-2K(b) MHC class I molecule. This structure reveals how a tremendously large CDR3beta conformational change allows the KB5-C20 TCR to adapt to the rather constrained pMHC surface and achieve a diagonal docking mode. This extreme case of induced fit also shows that TCR plasticity is primarily restricted to CDR3 loops and does not propagate away from the antigen binding site.
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
LYS
LYS66
GLU63
TRP167
LEU5
TYR59
TYR171
TYR7
THR163
TYR159
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P2
VAL
TYR159
LYS66
TYR7
ASN70
GLU63
TYR45
GLU24
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P3
ILE
SER99
TYR159
LYS66
ASN70
GLN114
LEU156
ARG155
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P4
THR
ASN70
LYS66
ARG155
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P5
PHE
PHE74
TYR22
TYR116
ASN70
SER73
VAL9
GLN114
GLU24
ARG155
VAL97
SER99
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P6
ILE
TRP147
ARG155
TYR116
GLU152
SER73
ASP77
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P7
ASP
ASP77
TRP147
LYS146
THR143
SER73
VAL76
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P8
LEU
TYR84
TYR123
LYS146
TRP147
ILE95
ILE142
THR143
TYR116
LEU81
ASP77
THR80
ILE124
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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
ALA159
GLY163
GLU167
ARG171
SER5
GLU59
ARG63
GLN66
ARG7
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B Pocket
MET24
PHE34
ARG45
ARG63
GLN66
LYS67
ARG7
GLY70
PHE9
ILE99
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C Pocket
GLY70
GLN73
SER74
PHE9
GLN97
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D Pocket
TYR114
GLU155
ARG156
ALA159
TYR160
ILE99
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E Pocket
TYR114
LYS147
GLY152
ARG156
GLN97
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F Pocket
GLN116
ASP123
ILE143
HIS146
LYS147
VAL77
ARG80
THR81
GLY84
THR95
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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
IQKTPQIQVYSRHPPENGKPNILNCYVTQFHPPHIEIQMLKNGKKIPKVEMSDMSFSKDW 70 80 90 SFYILAHTEFTPTETDTYACRVKHDSMAEPKTVYWDRDM |
2. Class I alpha
H2-Kb
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10 20 30 40 50 60
MGPHSLRYFVTAVSRPGLGEPRYMEVGYVDDTEFVRFDSDAENPRYEPRARWMEQEGPEY 70 80 90 100 110 120 WERETQKAKGNEQSFRVDLRTLLGYYNQSKGGSHTIQVISGCEVGSDGRLLRGYQQYAYD 130 140 150 160 170 180 GCDYIALNEDLKTWTAADMAALITKHKWEQAGEAERLRAYLEGTCVEWLRRYLKNGNATL 190 200 210 220 230 240 LRTDSPKAHVTHHSRPEDKVTLRCWALGFYPADITLTWQLNGEELIQDMELVETRPAGDG 250 260 270 TFQKWASVVVPLGKEQYYTCHVYHQGLPEPLTLRWEPPP |
3. Peptide
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KVITFIDL
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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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