Dissecting the energetics of an antibody-antigen interface by alanine shaving and molecular grafting - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Dissecting the energetics of an antibody-antigen interface by alanine shaving and molecular grafting

L Jin et al. Protein Sci. 1994 Dec.

Abstract

Alanine-scanning mutagenesis on human growth hormone (hGH) identified 5 primary determinants (Arg 8, Asn 12, Arg 16, Asp 112, and Asp 116) for binding to a monoclonal antibody (MAb 3) (Jin L, Fendly BM, Wells JA, 1992, J Mol Biol 226:851-865). To further analyze the energetic importance of residues surrounding these five, we mutated all neighboring residues to alanine in groups of 7-16 (a procedure we call alanine shaving). Even the most extremely mutated variant, with 16 alanine substitutions, caused less than a 10-fold reduction in binding affinity to MAb3. By comparison, mutating any 1 of the 5 primary determinants to alanine caused a 6- to > 500-fold reduction in affinity. Replacing any of the 4 charged residues (Arg 8, Arg 16, Asp 112, and Asp 116) with a homologous residue (i.e., Arg to Lys or Asp to Glu) caused nearly as large a reduction in affinity as the corresponding alanine replacement. It was possible to graft the 5 primary binding determinants onto a nonbinding homologue of hGH, human placental lactogen (hPL), which has 86% sequence identity to hGH. The grafted hPL mutant bound 10-fold less tightly than hGH to MAb3 but bound as well as hGH when 2 additional framework mutations were introduced. Attempts to recover binding affinity by grafting the MAb3 epitope onto more distantly related scaffolds having a similar 4-helix bundle motif, such as human prolactin (23% sequence identity) or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, were unsuccessful.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Dissecting the energetics of an antibody-antigen interface by alanine shaving and molecular grafting - PubMed (original) (raw)