Non-classical MHC Class I molecule CD1a at 2.02Å resolution
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CD1a selectively captures endogenous cellular lipids that broadly block T cell response.
CD1a-autoreactive T cells represent a significant proportion of circulating αβ T cells in humans and appear to be enriched in the skin. How their autoreactivity is regulated remains unclear. In this issue of JEM, Cotton et al. (2021. J. Exp. Med.https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202699) show that CD1a molecules do not randomly survey cellular lipids but instead capture certain lipid classes that broadly interfere with the binding of autoreactive T cell antigen receptors to the target CD1a. These findings provide new potential therapeutic avenues for manipulating CD1a autoreactive T cell responses.
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Publication data retrieved from PDBe REST API8 and PMCe REST API9
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Beta 2 microglobulin
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AIQRTPKIQVYSRHPAENGKSNFLNCYVSGFHPSDIEVDLLKNGERIEKVEHSDLSFSKD 70 80 90 100 WSFYLLYYTEFTPTEKDEYACRVNHVTLSQPKIVKWDRDMGSLVPR |
2. CD1a
CD1a
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ATGLKEPLSFHVIWIASFYNHSWKQNLVSGWLSDLQTHTWDSNSSTIVFLWPWSRGNFSN 70 80 90 100 110 120 EEWKELETLFRIRTIRSFEGIRRYAHELQFEYPFEIQVTGGCELHSGKVSGSFLQLAYQG 130 140 150 160 170 180 SDFVSFQNNSWLPYPVAGNMAKHFCKVLNQNQHENDITHNLLSDTCPRFILGLLDAGKAH 190 200 210 220 230 240 LQRQVKPEAWLSHGPSPGPGHLQLVCHVSGFYPKPVWVMWMRGEQEQQGTQRGDILPSAD 250 260 270 280 GTWYLRATLEVAAGEAADLSCRVKHSSLEGQDIVLYWEGSLVPRG |
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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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