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タイトル | Peptide-conjugation induced conformational changes in human IgG1 observed by optimized negative-staining and individual-particle electron tomography. |
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ジャーナル・号・ページ | Sci Rep, Vol. 3, Page 1089, Year 2013 |
掲載日 | 2013年1月21日 |
著者 | Huimin Tong / Lei Zhang / Allan Kaspar / Matthew J Rames / Liqing Huang / Gary Woodnutt / Gang Ren / |
PubMed 要旨 | Peptides show much promise as potent and selective drug candidates. Fusing peptides to a scaffold monoclonal antibody produces a conjugated antibody which has the advantages of peptide activity yet ...Peptides show much promise as potent and selective drug candidates. Fusing peptides to a scaffold monoclonal antibody produces a conjugated antibody which has the advantages of peptide activity yet also has the pharmacokinetics determined by the scaffold antibody. However, the conjugated antibody often has poor binding affinity to antigens that may be related to unknown structural changes. The study of the conformational change is difficult by conventional techniques because structural fluctuation under equilibrium results in multiple structures co-existing. Here, we employed our two recently developed electron microscopy (EM) techniques: optimized negative-staining (OpNS) EM and individual-particle electron tomography (IPET). Two-dimensional (2D) image analyses and three-dimensional (3D) maps have shown that the domains of antibodies present an elongated peptide-conjugated conformational change, suggesting that our EM techniques may be novel tools to monitor the structural conformation changes in heterogeneous and dynamic macromolecules, such as drug delivery vehicles after pharmacological synthesis and development. |
リンク | Sci Rep / PubMed:23346347 / PubMed Central |
手法 | EM (トモグラフィー) |
解像度 | 16.5 - 16.6 Å |
構造データ | EMDB-2285: EMDB-2286: |
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