The Crystal Structure of Human Endoplasmic Reticulum Aminopeptidase 2 Reveals the Atomic Basis for Distinct Roles in Antigen Processing

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Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases ERAP1 and ERAP2 cooperate to trim a vast variety of antigenic peptide precursors to generate mature epitopes for binding to major histocompatibility class I molecules. We report here the first structure of ERAP2 determined at 3.08 Å by X-ray crystallography. On the basis of residual electron density, a lysine residue has been modeled in the active site of the enzyme; thus,...

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