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An old Twist in HLA-A: CDR3α Hook up at an R65-joint

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in immunology, May 2015
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Title
An old Twist in HLA-A: CDR3α Hook up at an R65-joint
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Frontiers in immunology, May 2015
DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00268
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Authors

Joseph S. Murray

Abstract

T-cell ontogeny optimizes the α/β T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire for recognition of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class-I/II genetic polymorphism, and co-evolution of TCR germline V-gene segments and the MHC must entail somatic diversity generated in the third complimentary determining regions (CDR3α/β); however, it is still not clear how. Herein, a conspicuous structural link between the V-Jα used by several different TCR [all in complex with the same MHC molecule (HLA-A2)], and a conserved MHC motif (a.a., R65-X-X-K-A-X-S-Q72) is described. We model this R65-joint in detail, and show that the same TCR's CDR3α loop maintains its CDR2α loop at a distance of ~4 Å from polymorphic amino acid (a.a.) positions of the α-2 helix in all but one of the analyzed crystal structures. Indeed, the pitch of docked TCRs varies as their twist/tilt/sway maintains the R65-joint and peptide contacts. Thus, the R65-joint appears to have poised the HLA-A lineage toward alloreactivity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 11%
Unknown 8 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 33%
Student > Master 2 22%
Student > Bachelor 1 11%
Other 1 11%
Student > Postgraduate 1 11%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 67%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 11%
Unknown 1 11%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 May 2015.
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#15,091,901
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#13,910
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#136,141
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in immunology
#81
of 180 outputs
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