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. 1980 Apr 1;187(1):163–172. doi: 10.1042/bj1870163

Distance calculation of residues neighbouring to lysozyme antigenic sites. Site-neighbouring residues whose evolutionary substitution can modify the characteristics and binding energy of the sites.

M Z Atassi, A L Kazim
PMCID: PMC1162504  PMID: 6157386

Abstract

By using the antigenic structure of lysozyme determined in this laboratory and the X-ray co-ordinates we have calculated the closest-atom distances between each of the residues in the three antigenic sites and all the other amino acids of the lysozyme molecule. These calculations enabled us to identify the nearest neighbours to each of the site residues. Thus the immediate environment of each site residue is described. For the three antigenic sites there is a total of 71 neighbouring residues. The effects of evolutionary amino acid substitutions in site-neighbouring residues on the binding capacity of protein binding sites in general and on protein antigenic sites in particular are discussed. These, together with the direct replacements in site residues, will acount for the major effects. However, the limitations of this treatment are stressed. The smaller effects on antigenic sites of replacements at once-removed and even at more distant locations, which, when they become cumulative, could be considerable, are brought to attention, together with any influences of conformational readjustments that can take place as a result of evolutionary amino acid replacements.

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