Automated classification of antibody complementarity determining region 3 of the heavy chain (H3) loops into canonical forms and its application to protein structure …

B Oliva, PA Bates, E Querol, FX Avilés… - Journal of molecular …, 1998 - Elsevier
A computer-based algorithm was used to cluster the loops forming the complementarity
determining region (CDR) 3 of the heavy chain (H3) into canonical classes. Previous …

Prediction of hypervariable CDR-H3 loop structures in antibodies

M Reczko, ACR Martin, H Bohr… - … Engineering, Design and …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
The structure of the most variable antibody hypervariable loop, CDR-H3, has been predicted
from amino acid sequence alone. In contrast to other approaches predictions are made for …

Antibody CDR H3 modeling rules: extension for the case of absence of Arg H94 and Asp H101

OV Koliasnikov, MO Kiral, VG Grigorenko… - … of bioinformatics and …, 2006 - World Scientific
The third complementary determining region of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (CDR H3)
is one of the more difficult structures to model due to genetic reasons. However, the …

A new clustering of antibody CDR loop conformations

B North, A Lehmann, RL Dunbrack Jr - Journal of molecular biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Previous analyses of the complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) of antibodies have
focused on a small number of “canonical” conformations for each loop. This is primarily the …

Improving the accuracy of the structure prediction of the third hypervariable loop of the heavy chains of antibodies

MA Messih, R Lepore, P Marcatili… - Bioinformatics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Antibodies are able to recognize a wide range of antigens through their
complementary determining regions formed by six hypervariable loops. Predicting the 3D …

Structural families in loops of homologous proteins: automatic classification, modelling and application to antibodies

ACR Martin, JM Thornton - Journal of molecular biology, 1996 - Elsevier
Loop regions of polypeptide in homologous proteins may be classified into structural
families. A method is described by which this classification may be performed automatically …

Ab initio structure prediction of the antibody hypervariable H3 loop

K Zhu, T Day - Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Antibodies have the capability of binding a wide range of antigens due to the diversity of the
six loops constituting the complementarity determining region (CDR). Among the six loops …

Predicting antibody complementarity determining region structures without classification

Y Choi, CM Deane - Molecular Biosystems, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Antibodies are used extensively in medical and biological research. Their complementarity
determining regions (CDRs) define the majority of their antigen binding functionality. CDR …

Antibody variable regions: toward a unified modeling method

N Whitelegg, AR Rees - Antibody engineering: methods and protocols, 2004 - Springer
Predicting the structure of the antibody variable region from sequence has been the focus of
considerable research since the work of Kabat and Wu (1), Padlan et al.(2), Stanford and Wu …

Canonical antigen-binding loop structures in immunoglobulins: more structures, more canonical classes?

K Decanniere, S Muyldermans, L Wyns - Journal of molecular biology, 2000 - Elsevier
Grafting the antigen-binding loops onto a human antibody scaffold is a widely used
technique to humanise murine antibodies. The success of this approach depends largely on …