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MDPI, Cells, 7(8), p. 720, 2019

DOI: 10.3390/cells8070720

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Intramolecular Domain Movements of Free and Bound pMHC and TCR Proteins: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

Journal article published in 2019 by Rudolf Karch ORCID, Claudia Stocsits, Nevena Ilieva, Wolfgang Schreiner ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The interaction of antigenic peptides (p) and major histocompatibility complexes (pMHC) with T-cell receptors (TCR) is one of the most important steps during the immune response. Here we present a molecular dynamics simulation study of bound and unbound TCR and pMHC proteins of the LC13-HLA-B*44:05-pEEYLQAFTY complex to monitor differences in relative orientations and movements of domains between bound and unbound states of TCR-pMHC. We generated local coordinate systems for MHC α1- and MHC α2-helices and the variable T-cell receptor regions TCR Vα and TCR Vβ and monitored changes in the distances and mutual orientations of these domains. In comparison to unbound states, we found decreased inter-domain movements in the simulations of bound states. Moreover, increased conformational flexibility was observed for the MHC α2-helix, the peptide, and for the complementary determining regions of the TCR in TCR-unbound states as compared to TCR-bound states.