PubMed · 7244438
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Z Swierczyńska, H Rdułtowska, E Maciejowska, S Jabłońska. 1980. [Circulating immune complexes in psoriasis].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7244438/
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A structural and thermodynamic study of the entropic contribution of salt bridge formation to the interaction between hen egg white lysozyme (HEL) and the variable domain fragment (Fv) of anti-HEL antibody, HyHEL-10, was carried out. Three Fv mutants (HD32A, HD96A, and HD32AD96A) were prepared, and the interactions between the mutant Fvs and HEL were investigated. Crystallography revealed that the overall structures of these mutant complexes were almost identical to that of wild-type Fv. Little structural changes were observed in the HD32AD96A mutant-HEL complex, and two water molecules were introduced into the mutation site, indicating that the two water molecules structurally compensated for the complete removal of the salt bridges. This result suggests that the entropic contribution of the salt bridge originates from dehydration. In the singly mutated complexes, one water molecule was also introduced into the mutated site, bridging the antigen-antibody interface. However, a local structural difference was observed in the HD32A Fv-HEL complex, and conformational changes occurred due to changes in the relative orientation of the heavy chain to the light chain upon complexation in HD96A Fv-HEL complexes. The reduced affinity of these single mutants for the antigen originates from the increase in entropy loss, indicating that these structural changes also introduced an increase in entropy loss. These results suggest that salt bridge formation makes an entropic contribution to the protein antigen-antibody interaction through reduction of entropy loss due to dehydration and structural changes.
Self-organization is a common theme in biology. One mechanism of self-organization is the creation of chemical patterns by the diffusion of chemical reactants and their nonlinear interactions. We have recently observed sustained unidirectional traveling chemical redox [NAD(P)H - NAD(P)(+)] waves within living polarized neutrophils. The present study shows that an intracellular metabolic wave responds to formyl peptide receptor agonists, but not antagonists, by splitting into two waves traveling in opposite directions along a cell's long axis. Similar effects were noted with other neutrophil-activating substances. Moreover, when cells were exposed to an N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) gradient whose source was perpendicular to the cell's long axis, cell metabolism was locally perturbed with reorientation of the pattern in a direction perpendicular to the initial cellular axis. Thus, extracellular activating signals and the signals' spatial cues are translated into distinct intracellular dissipative structures.
A noncompetitive capillary electrophoresis (CE)-based immunoassay with near-infrared laser induced fluorescence detection (NIR-LIF) for insulin antibodies has been developed. In the assay, insulin was derivatized with a NIR fluorescent dye (NN382; LI-COR). Insulin antibodies were detected via the formation of an immunocomplex. Parameters affecting the separation such as pH, voltage and ionic strength were investigated. Furthermore, it was found that increasing the ramp time of the applied voltage improved the detection limit of the assay by an order of magnitude. The detection limit of the assay was 1.1 nM.