title: Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies on a Fab fragment of the mouse anti-human Fas monoclonal antibody HFE7A.
abstract: The Fas-Fas ligand system is involved in apoptosis. The mouse anti-human Fas monoclonal antibody HFE7A (m-HFE7A) has a potential use in human therapy against autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Information on the three-dimensional structure is essential for antibody humanization. Crystals of an antigen-binding fragment (Fab) of m-HFE7A were obtained by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method using sodium citrate as a precipitant and 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol as an additive. Fast optimization to produce single crystals suitable for X-ray analysis was achieved by the streak-seeding technique. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 43.4, b = 74.0, c = 133.8 A. The crystals diffract at least to 2.5 A resolution.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Research Laboratories, Sankyo Co. Ltd, 1-2-58 Hiromachi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-8710, Japan. shuici@shina.sankyo.co.jp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hanzawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ohsumi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Serizawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Haruyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hata
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000737:chemistry*; D058846:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D006801:Humans; D007140:Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments / Q000737:chemistry*; D051379:Mice; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D058846:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived; D007140:Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments; C411023:anti-Fas monoclonal antibody