[HTML][HTML] Superantigen recognition and interactions: functions, mechanisms and applications

AM Deacy, SKE Gan, JP Derrick - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… The results showed that the optimal number of immunoglobulin binding domains to
induce the largest B-cell response was 5 (95). This observation suggests that B-cell …

Partnering for the major histocompatibility complex class II and antigenic determinant requires flexibility and chaperons

S Sadegh-Nasseri - Current opinion in immunology, 2021 - Elsevier
bind peptides stably but non-specifically! The solution of the MHC class II crystal structure, …
The CLIP region was shown to binds to the groove of MHC II molecules in the endoplasmic …

A triad of molecular regions contribute to the formation of two distinct MHC class II conformers

LA Drake, JR Drake - Molecular immunology, 2016 - Elsevier
class II transmembrane domain to drive both M1 and M2 … Major histocompatibility complex
(MHC) class II molecules are … other class II functions such as peptide binding, super-antigen

Putative staphylococcal enterotoxin possesses two common structural motifs for MHC-II binding

S Rahman, S Saha, SB Dasgupta, AK Das - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
… , important residues that are vital for the T-cell receptor (TcR) and major histocompatibility
complex class II (MHC-II… antigen binding domain, whether our predicted superantigen can also …

The molecular characterization of antibody binding to a superantigen-like protein from a commensal microbe

MT Borowska, C Drees, AE Yarawsky… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… is through crosslinked binding to a germline region of a … -binding groove of a class II major
histocompatibility complex (5, 6). … (χ 2 = 5.33), suggesting that the solution structure may adopt …

The T-Cell Receptor Can Bind to the Peptide-Bound Major Histocompatibility Complex and Uncomplexed β2-Microglobulin through Distinct Binding Sites

…, M Ferber, TJD Jørgensen, K Scholten, I Luescher… - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
… the solution-phase HDX-MS data suggest a binding affinity of … observed between superantigens
and the TCR Vβ domain. … region with cognate pMHC could be due to minor structural

Design of split superantigen fusion proteins for cancer immunotherapy

A Golob-Urbanc, U Rajčević, Ž Strmšek… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
Superantigens do not need to be processed through antigen-presenting cells but can directly
bind to class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC class II) … region of the TCR β chain ( …

Multiple domains of Staphylococcal Superantigen-like protein 11 (SSL11) contribute to Neutrophil Inhibition

C Yang, JT Barbieri, NM Dahms, C Chen - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
… two binding sites: one in the OB domain for the MHC class II α chain and the other in the β-grasp
domain for … mg/mL SSL7 or SSL11, followed by transfer of the protein solution to a vial of …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial superantigen toxins induce a lethal cytokine storm by enhancing B7-2/CD28 costimulatory receptor engagement, a critical immune checkpoint

R Kaempfer, A Popugailo, R Levy, G Arad… - Receptors & clinical …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… , and as the free proteins in solution, shown by microscale thermophoresis. As for CD28, the
… We have shown that through its β-strand/hinge/α-helix domain, the superantigen binds not …

Staphylococcal enterotoxin-like X (SElX) is a unique superantigen with functional features of two major families of staphylococcal virulence factors

RJ Langley, YT Ting, F Clow, PG Young… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
binding major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II on … -fold domain allows for
binding to the invariant MHC class II α… plasma pulled out of solution by binding to SElX2-sepharose, …