INVESTIGADORES
MALCHIODI Emilio Luis
artículos
Título:
Protein motion and lock and key complementarity in antigen-antibody reactions.
Autor/es:
BRADEN B, DALL'ACQUA W, EISENSTEIN E, FIELDS BA, GOLBAUM FA, MALCHIODI EL, MARIUZZA RA, SCHWARZ FP, YSERN X, POLJAK R.
Revista:
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Año: 1995 vol. 69 p. 225 - 230
ISSN:
0928-0987
Resumen:
Pharmaceutica Acta Helvetica 69:225-230, 1995. Continúa como European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Antibodies possess a highly complementary combining site structure to that of their specific antigens. In many instances their reactions are driven by enthalpic factors including, at least in the case of the reaction of monoclonal antibody D1.3 with lysozyme, enthalpy of solvation. They require minor structural rearrangements, and their equilibrium association constants are relatively high (10(7)-10(11) M-1). By contrast, in an idiotope--anti-idiotope (antibody-antibody) reaction, which is entropically driven, the binding equilibrium constant is only 1.5 x 10(5) M-1 at 20 degrees C. This low value results from a slow association rate (10(3) M-1 s-1) due to a selection of conformational states that allow one of the interacting molecular surfaces (the idiotope on antibody D1.3) to become complementary to that of the anti-idiotopic antibody. Thus, antibody D1.3 reacts with two different macromolecules: with its specific antigen, hen egg lysozyme, and with a specific anti-idiotopic antibody.  Complementarity with lysozyme is closer to a "lock and key" model and results in  high affinity (2-4 x 10(8) M-1). That with the anti-idiotopic antibody involves conformational changes at its combining site and it results in a lower association constant (1.5 x 10(5) M-1). Thus, an "induced fit" mechanism may lead to a broadening of the binding specificity but with a resulting decrease in the intrinsic binding affinity which may weaken the physiological function of antibodies.