The rational construction of an antibody against cystatin: lessons from the crystal structure of an artificial Fab fragment

Journal of Molecular Biology
W Schiweck, Arne Skerra

Abstract

In a protein design study the artificial antibody M41 was modelled with its binding site complementary to the protease inhibitor cystatin, which was chosen as a structurally well-characterized "antigen". The modelling of M41 took advantage of the crystal structure of the anti-lysozyme antibody HyHEL-10 as a structural template. Its combining site was reshaped by replacing 19 amino acid side-chains in the hypervariable loops. In addition, ten amino acid residues were substituted in the framework regions. The crystal structure of the corresponding antibody model M41, which was produced as an F(ab) fragment in Escherichia coli, was determined at a resolution of 1.95 A. The crystals exhibited symmetry of the space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) (a = 96.5 A; b = 103.5 A; c = 113.6 A) with two F(ab) fragments in the asymmetric unit, which were independently refined (final R-factor 21.7%). The resulting coordinates were used for a detailed comparison with the modelled protein structure. It was found that the mutual arrangement of the six complementarity-determining regions as well as most of their backbone conformation had been correctly predicted. One major difference that was detected for the conformation of a five residue insertion in complem...Continue Reading

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