H2-Db binding "FAPGNYPAL" at 2.55Å resolution
Data provenance
Information sections
- Publication
- Peptide details
- Peptide neighbours
- Binding cleft pockets
- Chain sequences
- Downloadable data
- Data license
- Footnotes
Complex type
H2-Db
FAPGNYPAL
Species
Locus / Allele group
The crystal structure of H-2D(b) complexed with a partial peptide epitope suggests a major histocompatibility complex class I assembly intermediate.
In the absence of bound peptide ligands, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules are unstable. In an attempt to determine the minimum requirement for peptide-dependent MHC class I stabilization, we have used short synthetic peptides derived from the Sendai virus nucleoprotein epitope (residues 324-332, 1FAPGNYPAL9) to promote its folding in vitro of H-2D(b). We found that H-2D(b) can be stabilized by the pentapeptide 5NYPAL9, which is equivalent to the C-terminal portion of the optimal nonapeptide and includes both the P5 and P9 anchor residues. We have crystallized the complex of the H-2D(b) molecule with the pentamer and determined the structure to show how a quasi-stable MHC class I molecule can be formed by occupancy of a single binding pocket in the peptide-binding groove.
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
P6
TYR
ALA152
HIS155
TRP73
TYR156
TYR159
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P7
PRO
TYR156
ALA152
TRP147
SER150
TRP73
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P8
ALA
TRP147
TRP73
SER77
VAL76
ASN80
LYS146
THR143
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P9
LEU
TYR123
LEU95
TRP73
SER77
ILE124
THR143
TRP147
PHE116
LEU81
ASN80
LYS146
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
GLU163
TRP167
TYR171
MET5
TYR59
GLU63
LYS66
TYR7
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B Pocket
SER24
VAL34
TYR45
GLU63
LYS66
ALA67
TYR7
GLN70
GLU9
SER99
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C Pocket
GLN70
TRP73
PHE74
GLU9
GLN97
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D Pocket
LEU114
HIS155
TYR156
TYR159
LEU160
SER99
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E Pocket
LEU114
TRP147
ALA152
TYR156
GLN97
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F Pocket
PHE116
TYR123
THR143
LYS146
TRP147
SER77
ASN80
LEU81
TYR84
LEU95
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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
IQRTPKIQVYSRHPAENGKSNFLNCYVSGFHPSDIEVDLLKNGERIEKVEHSDLSFSKDW 70 80 90 SFYLLYYTEFTPTEKDEYACRVNHVTLSQPKIVKWDRDM |
2. Class I alpha
H2-Db
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10 20 30 40 50 60
GPHSMRYFETAVSRPGLEEPRYISVGYVDNKEFVRFDSDAENPRYEPRAPWMEQEGPEYW 70 80 90 100 110 120 ERETQKAKGQEQWFRVSLRNLLGYYNQSAGGSHTLQQMSGCDLGSDWRLLRGYLQFAYEG 130 140 150 160 170 180 RDYIALNEDLKTWTAADMAAQITRRKWEQSGAAEHYKAYLEGECVEWLHRYLKNGNATLL 190 200 210 220 230 240 RTDSPKAHVTHHPRSKGEVTLRCWALGFYPADITLTWALNGEELTQDMELVETRPAGDGT 250 260 270 FQKWASVVVPLGKEQNYTCRVYHEGLPEPLTLRWE |
3. Peptide
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FAPGNYPAL
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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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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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