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SUBMITTER: Jonsson P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4878507 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jönsson Peter P Southcombe Jennifer H JH Santos Ana Mafalda AM Huo Jiandong J Fernandes Ricardo A RA McColl James J Lever Melissa M Evans Edward J EJ Hudson Alexander A Chang Veronica T VT Hanke Tomáš T Godkin Andrew A Dunne Paul D PD Horrocks Mathew H MH Palayret Matthieu M Screaton Gavin R GR Petersen Jan J Rossjohn Jamie J Fugger Lars L Dushek Omer O Xu Xiao-Ning XN Davis Simon J SJ Klenerman David D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160425 20
The αβ T-cell coreceptor CD4 enhances immune responses more than 1 million-fold in some assays, and yet the affinity of CD4 for its ligand, peptide-major histocompatibility class II (pMHC II) on antigen-presenting cells, is so weak that it was previously unquantifiable. Here, we report that a soluble form of CD4 failed to bind detectably to pMHC II in surface plasmon resonance-based assays, establishing a new upper limit for the solution affinity at 2.5 mM. However, when presented multivalently ...[more]