title: Native-like cyclic peptide models of a viral antigenic site: finding a balance between rigidity and flexibility.
abstract: Antigenic site A of foot-and-mouth disease virus (serotype C) has been reproduced by means of cyclic versions of peptide A15, YTASARGDLAHLTTT, corresponding to residues 136-150 of envelope protein VP1. A structural basis for the design of the cyclic peptides is provided by crystallographic data from complexes between the Fab fragments of anti-site A monoclonal antibodies and A15, in which the bound peptide is folded into a quasi-cyclic pattern. Head-to-tail cyclizations of A15 do not provide peptides of superior antigenicity. Internal disulfide cyclization, however, leads to analogs which are recognized as one to two orders of magnitude better than linear A15 in both ELISA and biosensor experiments. CD and NMR studies show that the best antigen, CTASARGDLAHLTT-Ahx-C (disulfide), is very insensitive to environment-induced conformational change, suggesting that cyclization helps to stabilize a bioactive-like structure.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Química Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Valero
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Camarero
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haack
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mateu
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Domingo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Giralt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Andreu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005537:Aphthovirus / Q000276:immunology*; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D000939:Epitopes; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D018716:Molecular Mimicry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic; D014764:Viral Proteins