Structural evidence for a programmed general base in the active site of a catalytic antibody

AUTOR(ES)

Golinelli-Pimpaneau, Béatrice

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The crystal structure of the complex of a catalytic antibody with its cationic hapten at 1.9-Å resolution demonstrates that the hapten amidinium group is stabilized through an ionic pair interaction with the carboxylate of a combining-site residue. The location of this carboxylate allows it to act as a general base in an allylic rearrangement. When compared with structures of other antibody complexes in which the positive moiety of the hapten is stabilized mostly by cation–π interactions, this structure shows that the amidinium moiety is a useful candidate to elicit a carboxylate in an antibody combining site at a predetermined location with respect to the hapten. More generally, this structure highlights the advantage of a bidentate hapten for the programmed positioning of a chemically reactive residue in an antibody through charge complementarity to the hapten.

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