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Molecular Recognition between Aβ-Specific Single-Domain Antibody and Aβ Misfolded Aggregates.


ABSTRACT: Aβ is the toxic amyloid polypeptide responsible for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Prevention and elimination of the Aβ misfolded aggregates are the promising therapeutic strategies for the AD treatments. Gammabody, the Aβ-Specific Single-domain (VH) antibody, recognizes Aβ aggregates with high affinity and specificity and reduces their toxicities. Employing the molecular dynamics simulations, we studied diverse gammabody-Aβ recognition complexes to get insights into their structural and dynamic properties and gammabody-Aβ recognitions. Among many heterogeneous binding modes, we focused on two gammabody-Aβ recognition scenarios: recognition through Aβ β-sheet backbone and on sidechain surface. We found that the gammabody primarily uses the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) loop with the grafted Aβ sequence to interact with the Aβ fibril, while CDR1/CDR2 loops have very little contact. The gammabody-Aβ complexes with backbone binding mode are more stable, explaining the gammabody's specificity towards the C-terminal Aβ sequence.

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6640678 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Molecular Recognition between Aβ-Specific Single-Domain Antibody and Aβ Misfolded Aggregates.

Zhang Mingzhen M   Zheng Jie J   Nussinov Ruth R   Ma Buyong B  

Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) 20180713 3


Aβ is the toxic amyloid polypeptide responsible for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Prevention and elimination of the Aβ misfolded aggregates are the promising therapeutic strategies for the AD treatments. Gammabody, the Aβ-Specific Single-domain (VH) antibody, recognizes Aβ aggregates with high affinity and specificity and reduces their toxicities. Employing the molecular dynamics simulations, we studied diverse gammabody-Aβ recognition complexes to get insights into their structural and dynamic prop  ...[more]

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