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Crystal structure of a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 neutralizing antibody, 50.1, in complex with its V3 loop peptide antigen.

The crystal structure of the Fab fragment of a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) neutralizing monoclonal antibody Fab has been determined at 2.8 A resolution in complex with a linear 16-residue peptide from the third hypervariable region (V3) of gp120. The first 9 residues of the peptide are ordered in the electron density maps, and their conformation is in partial agreement with the beta-strand-type II beta-turn structure predicted for this portion of the V3 loop. Notably, several of the peptide residues that are well conserved among different HIV-1 isolates contact a nonpolar 25-A-long groove in the antibody-combining site. The largely extended structure of the peptide differs from the beta-turns seen as the primary determinants in other published anti-peptide Fab structures. Analysis of the specific Fab-peptide interactions only partially explains the MN isolate specificity shown by this antibody.[1]

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  1. Crystal structure of a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 neutralizing antibody, 50.1, in complex with its V3 loop peptide antigen. Rini, J.M., Stanfield, R.L., Stura, E.A., Salinas, P.A., Profy, A.T., Wilson, I.A. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1993) [Pubmed]
 
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