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CryoEM Structure of an Influenza Virus Receptor-Binding Site Antibody-Antigen Interface.


ABSTRACT: Structure-based vaccine design depends on extensive structural analyses of antigen-antibody complexes.Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) can circumvent some of the problems of x-ray crystallography as a pipeline for obtaining the required structures. We have examined the potential of single-particle cryoEM for determining the structure of influenza-virus hemagglutinin (HA):single-chain variable-domain fragment complexes, by studying a complex we failed to crystallize in pursuing an extended project on the human immune response to influenza vaccines.The result shows that a combination of cryoEM and molecular modeling can yield details of the antigen-antibody interface, although small variation in the twist of the rod-likeHA trimer limited the overall resolution to about 4.5Å.Comparison of principal 3D classes suggests ways to modify the HA trimer to overcome this limitation. A closely related antibody from the same donor did yield crystals when bound with the same HA, giving us an independent validation of the cryoEM results.The two structures also augment our understanding of receptor-binding site recognition by antibodies that neutralize a wide range of influenza-virus variants.

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5535819 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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CryoEM Structure of an Influenza Virus Receptor-Binding Site Antibody-Antigen Interface.

Liu Yuhang Y   Pan Junhua J   Jenni Simon S   Raymond Donald D DD   Caradonna Tim T   Do Khoi T KT   Schmidt Aaron G AG   Harrison Stephen C SC   Grigorieff Nikolaus N  

Journal of molecular biology 20170512 12


Structure-based vaccine design depends on extensive structural analyses of antigen-antibody complexes.Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) can circumvent some of the problems of x-ray crystallography as a pipeline for obtaining the required structures. We have examined the potential of single-particle cryoEM for determining the structure of influenza-virus hemagglutinin (HA):single-chain variable-domain fragment complexes, by studying a complex we failed to crystallize in pursuing an  ...[more]

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