Targeting the Integrin Ligand Binding Site.

2015-01-13

azim58 - Targeting the Integrin Ligand Binding Site.


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/home/kurt/kurt/storage/laptop_L_DR/2012/11-4-12/High-affinity
self-reactive human antibodies by design and selection c Targeting the
integrin ligand binding site.pdf


Barbas, C.F., Languino, L.R., Smith, J.W., 1993. High-Affinity
Self-Reacting Human Antibodies by Design and Selection: Targeting the
Integrin Ligand Binding Site. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA 90, 10003-10007.

High-affinity self-reactive human antibodies by design and selection:
Targeting the integrin ligand binding site
notes
11-4-12

generating antibodies to self antigens
targeted integrins

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We have
demonstrated that antibodies can be selected to bind small
haptens (4, 7), metal ions (6), and metal oxides by introducing
a random sequence into one or two CDRs of an antibody.


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The Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) sequence is an integrin recognition
motif found in many adhesive proteins (8-11).

wow the RGD motif is found in snake venom and some viruses

? what is echistatin and tenascin?

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The RGD sequence was placed at Kabat positions 100 a-c
ensuring its location near the apex of the turn.

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four rounds of panning against immobilized receptor.

SPR was used to determine affinity

IC50 is inhibition constant

vitronectin is natural ligand of integrin

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Fab-9 is specific to 83 integrins.

I don't fully understand why they wanted their binding between antibody
and integrin to be divalent-cation-dependent

I was surprised that RGD and RGE peptides behaved so differently in this
assay


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This methodology is not necessarily limited to integrins, as
naturally occurring antibodies have been described that
mimic many ligands (42).

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CDR loop can be viewed as a conformationally
constrained peptide