Non-classical MHC Class I molecule CD1d at 2.80Å resolution
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Crystal structure of mouse CD1d bound to the self ligand phosphatidylcholine: a molecular basis for NKT cell activation.
NKT cells are immunoregulatory lymphocytes whose activation is triggered by the recognition of lipid Ags in the context of the CD1d molecules by the TCR. In this study we present the crystal structure to 2.8 A of mouse CD1d bound to phosphatidylcholine. The interactions between the ligand acyl chains and the CD1d molecule define the structural and chemical requirements for the binding of lipid Ags to CD1d. The orientation of the polar headgroup toward the C terminus of the alpha1 helix provides a rationale for the structural basis for the observed Valpha chain bias in invariant NKT cells. The contribution of the ligand to the protein surface suggests a likely mode of recognition of lipid Ags by the NKT cell TCR.
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Beta 2 microglobulin
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IQKTPQIQVYSRHPPENGKPNILNCYVTQFHPPHIEIQMLKNGKKIPKVEMSDMSFSKDW 70 80 90 SFYILAHTEFTPTETDTYACRVKHDSMAEPKTVYWDRDM |
2. CD1d
CD1d
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NYTFRCLQMSSFANRSWSRTDSVVWLGDLQTHRWSNDSATISFTKPWSQGKLSNQQWEKL 70 80 90 100 110 120 QHMFQVYRVSFTRDIQELVKMMSPKEDYPIEIQLSAGCEMYPGNASESFLHVAFQGKYVV 130 140 150 160 170 180 RFWGTSWQTVPGAPSWLDLPIKVLNADQGTSATVQMLLNDTCPLFVRGLLEAGKSDLEKQ 190 200 210 220 230 240 EKPVAWLSSVPSSAHGHRQLVCHVSGFYPKPVWVMWMRGDQEQQGTHRGDFLPNADETWY 250 260 270 LQATLDVEAGEEAGLACRVKHSSLGGQDIILYW |
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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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- 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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