HLA-A*02:01 presenting "GILGFVFTL" to Alpha/Beta T cell receptor at 2.46Å resolution
Data provenance
Information sections
- Publication
- Peptide details
- Peptide neighbours
- Binding cleft pockets
- Chain sequences
- Downloadable data
- Data license
- Footnotes
Complex type
Class i with peptide and alpha beta tcr
HLA-A*02:01
GILGFVFTL
TRAV38
TRBV19
Species
Locus / Allele group
Broad TCR repertoire and diverse structural solutions for recognition of an immunodominant CD8(+) T cell epitope.
A keystone of antiviral immunity is CD8+ T cell recognition of viral peptides bound to MHC-I proteins. The recognition modes of individual T cell receptors (TCRs) have been studied in some detail, but the role of TCR variation in providing a robust response to viral antigens is unclear. The influenza M1 epitope is an immunodominant target of CD8+ T cells that help to control influenza in HLA-A2+ individuals. Here we show that CD8+ T cells use many distinct TCRs to recognize HLA-A2-M1, which enables the use of different structural solutions to the problem of specifically recognizing a relatively featureless peptide antigen. The vast majority of responding TCRs target a small cleft between HLA-A2 and the bound M1 peptide. These broad repertoires lead to plasticity in antigen recognition and protection against T cell clonal loss and viral escape.
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
GLY
CYS164
GLU63
PHE33
MET5
TYR159
TYR7
TRP167
TYR59
TYR171
LYS66
TYR99
|
P2
ILE
HIS70
TYR99
GLY62
PHE9
LYS66
ALA24
GLU63
VAL67
TYR159
MET45
VAL34
TYR7
TRP167
|
P3
LEU
LEU156
TYR159
HIS70
TYR99
PHE9
LYS66
ARG97
LEU160
HIS114
|
P4
GLY
LYS66
HIS70
TYR159
|
P5
PHE
HIS70
ARG97
VAL152
GLN155
ALA150
LEU156
HIS151
|
P6
VAL
ARG97
ALA69
HIS70
THR73
LYS66
|
P7
PHE
HIS114
VAL152
TYR116
ASP77
LEU156
TRP133
TRP147
LYS146
ARG97
THR73
|
P8
THR
THR80
THR143
VAL76
ASP77
TRP147
LYS146
THR73
|
P9
LEU
LEU81
THR80
TYR116
TYR84
THR143
ASP77
LYS146
VAL95
THR142
THR73
TYR123
ILE124
TRP147
|
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
|
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
Data provenance
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 FQKWAAVVVPSGQEQRYTCHVQHEGLPKPLTLRWEA |
3. Peptide
|
GILGFVFTL
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4. T cell receptor alpha
T cell receptor alpha
TRAV38
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10 20 30 40 50 60
MIQTVTQSQPEMSVQEAETVTLSCTYDTSESDYYLFWYKQPPSRQMILVIRQEAYKQQNA 70 80 90 100 110 120 TENRFSVNFQKAAKSFSLKISDSQLGDAAMYFCAWGVNAGGTSYGKLTFGQGTILTVHPN 130 140 150 160 170 180 IQNPDPAVYQLRDSKSSDKSVCLFTDFDSQTNVSQSKDSDVYITDKCVLDMRSMDFKSNS 190 200 210 AVAWSNKSDFACANAFNNSIIPEDTFFPSPESS |
5. T cell receptor beta
T cell receptor beta
TRBV19
|
10 20 30 40 50 60
MIGGITQSPKYLFRKEGQNVTLSCEQNLNHDAMYWYRQDPGQGLRLIYYSQIVNDFQKGD 70 80 90 100 110 120 IAEGYSVSREKKESFPLTVTSAQKNPTAFYLCASSIGVYGYTFGSGTRLTVVEDLKNVFP 130 140 150 160 170 180 PEVAVFEPSEAEISHTQKATLVCLATGFYPDHVELSWWVNGKEVHSGVCTDPQPLKEQPA 190 200 210 220 230 240 LNDSRYALSSRLRVSATFWQNPRNHFRCQVQFYGLSENDEWTQDRAKPVTQIVSAEAWGR AD |
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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