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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5897
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-9-26
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) rather than antibodies play the primary role in recognition of antigens in the adaptive immune system of jawless vertebrates. Combinatorial assembly of leucine-rich repeat (LRR) gene segments achieves the required repertoire for antigen recognition. We have determined a crystal structure for a VLR-antigen complex, VLR RBC36 in complex with the H-antigen trisaccharide from human blood type O erythrocytes, at 1.67 angstrom resolution. RBC36 binds the H-trisaccharide on the concave surface of the LRR modules of the solenoid structure where three key hydrophilic residues, multiple van der Waals interactions, and the highly variable insert of the carboxyl-terminal LRR module determine antigen recognition and specificity. The concave surface assembled from the most highly variable regions of the LRRs, along with diversity in the sequence and length of the highly variable insert, can account for the recognition of diverse antigens by VLRs.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
321
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1834-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18818359-ABO Blood-Group System, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Hydrogen Bonding, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Lampreys, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Receptors, Antigen, pubmed-meshheading:18818359-Trisaccharides
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Antigen recognition by variable lymphocyte receptors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural