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Title | Disulfi de constrained Fabs overcome target size limitation for high-resolution single-particle cryo-EM. |
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Journal, issue, pages | bioRxiv, Year 2024 |
Publish date | May 13, 2024 |
Authors | Jennifer E Kung / Matthew C Johnson / Christine C Jao / Christopher P Arthur / Dimitry Tegunov / Alexis Rohou / Jawahar Sudhamsu / |
PubMed Abstract | High-resolution structures of proteins are critical to understanding molecular mechanisms of biological processes and in the discovery of therapeutic molecules. Cryo-EM has revolutionized structure ...High-resolution structures of proteins are critical to understanding molecular mechanisms of biological processes and in the discovery of therapeutic molecules. Cryo-EM has revolutionized structure determination of large proteins and their complexes, but a vast majority of proteins that underlie human diseases are small (< 50 kDa) and usually beyond its reach due to low signal-to-noise images and difficulties in particle alignment. Current strategies to overcome this problem increase the overall size of small protein targets using scaffold proteins that bind to the target, but are limited by inherent flexibility and not being bound to their targets in a rigid manner, resulting in the target being poorly resolved compared to the scaffolds. Here we present an iteratively engineered molecular design for transforming Fabs (antibody fragments), into conformationally rigid scaffolds (Rigid-Fabs) that, when bound to small proteins (~20 kDa), can enable high-resolution structure determination using cryo-EM. This design introduces multiple disulfide bonds at strategic locations, generates a well-folded Fab constrained into a rigid conformation and can be applied to Fabs from various species, isotypes and chimeric Fabs. We present examples of the Rigid Fab design enabling high-resolution (2.3-2.5 Å) structures of small proteins, Ang2 (26 kDa) and KRAS (21 kDa) by cryo-EM. The strategies for designing disulfide constrained Rigid Fabs in our work thus establish a general approach to overcome the target size limitation of single particle cryo-EM. |
External links | bioRxiv / PubMed:38798381 / PubMed Central |
Methods | EM (single particle) / X-ray diffraction |
Resolution | 2 - 2.9 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-43200, PDB-8vgh: EMDB-43201, PDB-8vgi: EMDB-43202, PDB-8vgj: EMDB-43203, PDB-8vgk: EMDB-43204: Composite cryoEM map of Nav1.7 in complex with wild type Fab 7A9 EMDB-43205: Consensus cryoEM map of Nav1.7 in complex with wild type Fab 7A9 EMDB-43206: Constituent EM map: Focused refinement of Fab 7A9 in complex of Nav1.7 and Fab 7A9 EMDB-43207: Constituent map: Focused refinement of Nav1.7 in complex of Nav1.7 and Fab 7A9 EMDB-43208: Composite cryoEM map of Nav1.7 in complex with engineered conformationally rigid Fab 7A9.4DS EMDB-43209: Consensus cryoEM map of Nav1.7 in complex with engineered conformationally rigid Fab 7A9.4DS EMDB-43210: Constituent map: Focused refinement of Fab 7A9.4DS in complex of Nav1.7 and Fab 7A9.4DS EMDB-43211: Constituent map: Focused refinement of Nav1.7 in complex of Nav1.7 and Fab 7A9.4DS EMDB-43212: Composite cryoEM map of CD20 in complex with wild type Rituximab Fab EMDB-43213: Consensus cryoEM map of CD20 in complex with wild type Rituximab Fab EMDB-43214: Constituent map: Focused refinement of CD20 and Fab variable domain in complex of CD20 with Rituximab Fab EMDB-43215: Constituent map: Focused refinement of CD20 in complex of CD20 with Rituximab Fab EMDB-43216, PDB-8vgo: EMDB-43217: Consensus cryoEM map of CD20 in complex with engineered conformationally rigid Rituximab.4DS Fab EMDB-43218: Constituent map: Focused refinement of CD20 and Fab variable domains in complex of CD20 and Rituximab.4DS Fab EMDB-43219: Constituent map: Focused refinement of CD20 in complex of CD20 with Rituximab.4DS Fab EMDB-43220, PDB-8vgp: EMDB-43221, PDB-8vgq: PDB-8veg: PDB-8vge: PDB-8vgf: PDB-8vgg: |
Chemicals | ChemComp-HOH: ChemComp-CA: PDB-1aaw: ChemComp-GDP: ChemComp-MG: |
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Keywords | IMMUNE SYSTEM / antibody fragment / fab / protein engineering / tryptase / HYDROLASE/IMMUNE SYSTEM / HYDROLASE-IMMUNE SYSTEM complex / TRANSPORT PROTEIN / ion channel / MEMBRANE PROTEIN/IMMUNE SYSTEM / membrane protein / MEMBRANE PROTEIN-IMMUNE SYSTEM complex / CYTOKINE/IMMUNE SYSTEM / antigen binding fragment / CYTOKINE-IMMUNE SYSTEM complex / ONCOPROTEIN/IMMUNE SYSTEM / gtpase / ONCOPROTEIN-MMUNE SYSTEM complex / ONCOPROTEIN-IMMUNE SYSTEM complex |