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Generating the immune response requires the discrimination of peptides presented by the human leukocyte antigen complex (HLA) through the T-cell receptor (TCR). However, how a single amino acid substitution in the antigen bonded to HLA affects the response of T cells remains uncertain. Hence, we used molecular dynamics computations to analyze the molecular interactions between peptides, HLA and TCR. We compared immunologically reactive complexes with non-reactive and weakly reactive complexes. MD trajectories were produced to simulate the behavior of isolated components of the various p-HLA-TCR complexes. Analysis of the fluctuations showed that p-HLA binding barely restrains TCR motions, and mainly affects the CDR3 loops. Conversely, inactive p-HLA complexes displayed significant drop in their dynamics when compared with its free versus ternary forms (p-HLA-TCR). In agreement, the free non-reactive p-HLA complexes showed a lower amount of salt bridges than the responsive ones. This resulted in differences between the electrostatic potentials of reactive and inactive p-HLA species and larger vibrational entropies in non-elicitor complexes. Analysis of the ternary p-HLA-TCR complexes also revealed a larger number of salt bridges in the responsive complexes. To summarize, our computations indicate that the affinity of each p-HLA complex towards TCR is intimately linked to both, the dynamics of its free species and its ability to form specific intermolecular salt-bridges in the ternary complexes. Of outstanding interest is the emerging concept of antigen reactivity involving its interplay with the HLA head sidechain dynamics by rearranging its salt-bridges.
Science, Receptores de antígenos de linfocitos T, Static Electricity, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Protein Structure, Secondary, HLA Antigens, Humans, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Electricidad estática, Amino Acid Sequence, Sustitución de aminoácidos, Antigen Presentation, Binding Sites, Q, Simulación de dinámica molecular, R, Péptidos, Linfocitos T, Antígenos HLA, Medicine, Thermodynamics, Entropía, Peptides, Enfermedades de transmisión sexual, Research Article, Protein Binding
Science, Receptores de antígenos de linfocitos T, Static Electricity, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Protein Structure, Secondary, HLA Antigens, Humans, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Electricidad estática, Amino Acid Sequence, Sustitución de aminoácidos, Antigen Presentation, Binding Sites, Q, Simulación de dinámica molecular, R, Péptidos, Linfocitos T, Antígenos HLA, Medicine, Thermodynamics, Entropía, Peptides, Enfermedades de transmisión sexual, Research Article, Protein Binding
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