Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 2-mer - A1B1 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors and generated by PISA (software)

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 48.56 kDa 
• Atom Count: 3403 
• Modelled Residue Count: 444 
• Deposited Residue Count: 446 
• Unique protein chains: 3

1CU4

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE ANTI-PRION FAB 3F4 IN COMPLEX WITH ITS PEPTIDE EPITOPE

• PDB DOI: 10.2210/pdb1CU4/pdb

• Classification: IMMUNE SYSTEM
• Organism(s): Mus musculus
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 1999-08-20 Released: 2000-04-17 
• Deposition Author(s): Kanyo, Z.F., Pan, K.M., Williamson, R.A., Burton, D.R., Prusiner, S.B., Fletterick, R.J., Cohen, F.E.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.90 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.268 
• R-Value Work: 0.159 

Literature

Antibody binding defines a structure for an epitope that participates in the PrPC-->PrPSc conformational change.

Kanyo, Z.F., Pan, K.M., Williamson, R.A., Burton, D.R., Prusiner, S.B., Fletterick, R.J., Cohen, F.E.

(1999) J Mol Biol 293: 855-863

• PubMed: 10543972 
• DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3193
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  1CR9, 1CU4


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

The X-ray crystallographic structures of the anti-Syrian hamster prion protein (SHaPrP) monoclonal Fab 3F4 alone, as well as the complex with its cognate peptide epitope (SHaPrP 104-113), have been determined to atomic resolution. The conformation of the decapeptide is an Omega-loop. There are substantial alterations in the antibody combining region upon epitope binding. The peptide binds in a U-shaped groove on the Fab surface, with the two specificity determinants, Met109 and Met112, penetrating deeply into separate hydrophobic cavities formed by the heavy and light chain complementarity-determining regions. In addition to the numerous contacts between the Fab and the peptide, two intrapeptide hydrogen bonds are observed, perhaps indicating the structure bound to the Fab exists transiently in solution. This provides the first structural information on a portion of the PrP N-terminal region observed to be flexible in the NMR studies of SHPrP 90-231, SHaPrP 29-231 and mouse PrP 23-231. Antibody characterization of the antigenic surfaces of PrPC and PrPSc identifies this flexible region as a component of the conformational rearrangement that is an essential feature of prion disease.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0518, USA.

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
FAB LIGHT CHAIN	A [auth L]	219	Mus musculus	Mutation(s): 0

Entity ID: 2
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
FAB HEAVY CHAIN	B [auth H]	217	Mus musculus	Mutation(s): 0

Entity ID: 3
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
RECOGNITION PEPTIDE	C [auth P]	10	N/A	Mutation(s): 0

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.90 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.268 
• R-Value Work: 0.159 
• Space Group: P 2₁ 2₁ 2₁

Unit Cell:

Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 39.47	α = 90
b = 77.35	β = 90
c = 134.07	γ = 90

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
MOSFLM	data reduction
SCALA	data scaling
AMoRE	phasing
X-PLOR	refinement
CCP4	data scaling

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 1999-08-20 
• Released Date: 2000-04-17 
Deposition Author(s): Kanyo, Z.F., Pan, K.M., Williamson, R.A., Burton, D.R., Prusiner, S.B., Fletterick, R.J., Cohen, F.E.

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2000-04-17
  Type: Initial release
  
• Version 1.1: 2008-04-27
  Changes: Version format compliance
• Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
  Changes: Version format compliance
• Version 1.3: 2018-04-04
  Changes: Data collection