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SUBMITTER: Kondo HX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934664 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kondo Hiroko X HX Kiribayashi Ryo R Kuroda Daisuke D Kohda Jiro J Kugimiya Akimitsu A Nakano Yasuhisa Y Tsumoto Kouhei K Takano Yu Y
Scientific reports 20191227 1
PG16 is a broadly neutralizing antibody to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A crystal structure of PG16 revealed that the unusually long 28-residue complementarity determining region (CDR) H3 forms a unique subdomain, referred to as a "hammerhead", that directly contacts the antigen. The hammerhead apparently governs the function of PG16 while a previous experimental assay showed that the mutation of Tyr<sup>H100Q</sup> to Ala, which does not directly contact the antigen, decreased the ne ...[more]