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Immunological optimization of a generic hydrophobic pocket for high affinity hapten binding and Diels-Alder activity.
Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology - 2 Apr 2004
Piatesi Andrea, Hilvert Donald
Abstract excerpt
Antibody 1E9, which binds a tetrachloronorbornene derivative with subnanomolar affinity and catalyzes the Diels-Alder reaction between tetrachlorothiophene dioxide and N-ethylmaleimide with high efficiency, arose from a family of highly restricted germ-line immunoglobulins that bind diverse hydrophobic ligands. Two somatic mutations, one at position L89 in the light chain (SerL89Phe) and another at position H47...
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