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Delineation of the third antigenic site of lysozyme by application of a novel 'surface-simulation' synthetic approach directly linking the conformationally adjacent residues forming the site.
Authors:C L Lee and  M Z Atassi
Abstract:We have previously shown that an antigenic site in native lysozyme resides around the disulphide bridge 30-115 and incorporates Lys-33 and Lys-116 and one or both of Tyr-20 and Tyr-23. These residues fall in an imaginary line circumscribing part of the surface of the molecule and passing through the spatially adjacent residues Tyr-20, Arg-21, Tyr-23, Lys-116, Asn-113, Arg-114, Phe-34 and Lys-33. The identity of the site was confirmed by demonstrating that the synthetic peptide Tyr-Arg-Tyr-Gly-Lys-Asn-Arg-Gly-Phe-Lys (which does not exist in lysozyme but simulates a surface region of it), and an analogue in which glycine replaced Tyr-23, possessed remarkable immuno-chemical reactivity that accounted entirely for the expected reactivity of the site in native lysozyme. Tyr-23 is not part of the site, and its contribution was satisfied by a glycine spacer. The novel approach presents a powerful technique for the delineation of antigenic (and other binding) sites in native proteins and confirms that these need not always comprise residues in direct peptide linkage.
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