Abstract
The refined structure of the Fab fragment of the monoclonal antibody CRIS-I (IgG2a kappa) against the leukocyte differentiation antigen CD5, determined at 1.9 A resolution with an agreement R-factor of 18.3%, reveals a variant of the canonical conformations proposed for the light chain complementarity determining region L3 (CDR-L3). This is the first Fab structure available with a kappa light chain in which the CDR-L3 lacks the key proline residue in either position 94 or 95. The conformation found could be significant for about 10% of the murine IgG molecules with kappa light chains without proline in their CDR-L3 sequences.
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