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3HPJ

HLA-A*02:01 binding "RMFPNAPYL" at 2.00Å 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.

Information sections


Complex type

Class i with peptide

1. Beta 2 microglobulin
['B', 'E']
2. Class I alpha
HLA-A*02:01
['A', 'D']
3. Peptide
RMFPNAPYL
['C', 'F']

Species


Locus / Allele group


Publication

Structures of native and affinity-enhanced WT1 epitopes bound to HLA-A*0201: implications for WT1-based cancer therapeutics.

Borbulevych OY, Do P, Baker BM
Mol. Immunol. (2010) 47, 2519-24 [doi:10.1016/j.molimm.2010.06.005]  [pubmed:20619457

Presentation of peptides by class I or class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is required for the initiation and propagation of a T cell-mediated immune response. Peptides from the Wilms Tumor 1 transcription factor (WT1), upregulated in many hematopoetic and solid tumors, can be recognized by T cells and numerous efforts are underway to engineer WT1-based cancer vaccines. Here we determined the structures of the class I MHC molecule HLA-A*0201 bound to the native 126-134 epitope of the WT1 peptide and a recently described variant (R1Y) with improved MHC binding. The R1Y variant, a potential vaccine candidate, alters the positions of MHC charged side chains near the peptide N-terminus and significantly reduces the peptide/MHC electrostatic surface potential. These alterations indicate that the R1Y variant is an imperfect mimic of the native WT1 peptide, and suggest caution in its use as a therapeutic vaccine. Stability measurements revealed how the R1Y substitution enhances MHC binding affinity, and together with the structures suggest a strategy for engineering WT1 variants with improved MHC binding that retain the structural features of the native peptide/MHC complex.

Structure deposition and release

Deposited: 2009-06-04
Released: 2010-06-23
Revised: 2017-11-01

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: RMFPNAPYL

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 ARG

TYR171
TYR7
GLU58
LYS66
TYR159
TYR59
GLU63
TRP167
PHE33
MET5
P2 MET

GLU63
TYR159
TYR7
HIS70
PHE9
LYS66
MET45
TYR99
VAL67
P3 PHE

TYR99
LYS66
ARG97
GLN155
LEU156
TYR159
HIS70
P4 PRO

TYR159
HIS70
LYS66
P5 ASN

ARG97
GLN155
HIS70
P6 ALA

HIS74
TYR116
THR73
HIS70
ARG97
P7 PRO

TRP147
ARG97
TYR116
THR73
HIS114
VAL152
ASP77
P8 TYR

TRP147
THR73
VAL76
ASP77
THR143
LYS146
P9 LEU

ASP77
THR143
LYS146
TRP147
TYR123
THR142
TYR84
ILE124
LEU81
TYR116
THR80
VAL95

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-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
RMFPNAPYL


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]
  1. 3HPJ assembly 1  
  2. 3HPJ assembly 2  

Components

MHC Class I alpha chain [cif]
  1. 3HPJ assembly 1  
  2. 3HPJ assembly 2  
MHC Class I antigen binding domain (alpha1/alpha2) [cif]
  1. 3HPJ assembly 1  
  2. 3HPJ assembly 2  
Peptide only [cif]
  1. 3HPJ assembly 1  
  2. 3HPJ assembly 2  

Derived data

Data for this page [json]
https://api.histo.fyi/v1/structures/3hpj

Data license

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Footnotes