Figure 3
Strategies for obtaining the chaperone-mediated MHC-I complex. (a) Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) experiments: B44/6-mer binds better (KD = 0.34 µM) than (b) that of B44/9-mer (KD = 1.31 µM), which indicates that MHC-I with the short/truncated peptide binds tighter to tapasin. (c) No electron density is observed in the peptide groove of HLA-B44:05 in the complex with tapasin (PDB entry 7tue). The electron density of the 2(Fo − mFc) map is shown in blue, contoured at 1σ. |