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. 1998 Sep;7(9):1868–1874. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560070903

Quantitative evaluation of the chicken lysozyme epitope in the HyHEL-10 Fab complex: free energies and kinetics.

A Rajpal 1, M G Taylor 1, J F Kirsch 1
PMCID: PMC2144172  PMID: 9761468

Abstract

The hen (chicken) egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) epitope for the monoclonal antibody HyHEL-10 Fab (Fab-10) was investigated by alanine scan mutagenesis. The association rate constants (k(on)) for the HEWL Fab-10 complexes were obtained from the homogenous solution method described in the preceding paper (Taylor et al., 1998). A new method for determining the dissociation rate constant (k(off)) for the complex, by trapping nascent free antibody with an inactive HEWL mutant is described. The values of k(on) fall within a factor of 2 of the wild-type (WT) HEWL value (1.43+/-0.13 X 10(6)M(-1)s(-1)), while the increases in k(off)more nearly reflect the total change in free energies of the complex (deltadeltaG(D)). The dissociation constants (K(D)) were measured directly in those cases where satisfactory kinetic data could not be obtained. The Y20A, K96A, and K97A HEWL.Fab-10 complexes are destabilized by more than 4 kcal/mol compared to the WT complex. The R21A, L75A, and D101A antibody complexes are moderately destabilized (0.7 < deltadeltaG(D)< or = 1.0 kcal/mol). Additional mutations of the "hotspot" residues (Tyr20, Lys96, Lys97) were constructed to probe, more precisely, the nature of their contributions to complex formation. The results show that the entire hydrocarbon side chains of Tyr20 and Lys97, and only the epsilon-amino group of Lys96, contribute to the stability of the complex. The value of deltadeltaG(D) for the R21A mutant complex is a distinct outlier in the Arg21 replacement series demonstrating the importance of supplementing alanine scan mutagenesis with additional mutations.

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