Information-Driven Antibody-Antigen Modelling with HADDOCK

Francesco Ambrosetti, Zuzana Jandova, Alexandre M J J Bonvin*

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Abstract

In the recent years, therapeutic use of antibodies has seen a huge growth, "due to their inherent proprieties and technological advances in the methods used to study and characterize them. Effective design and engineering of antibodies for therapeutic purposes are heavily dependent on knowledge of the structural principles that regulate antibody-antigen interactions. Several experimental techniques such as X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, NMR, or mutagenesis analysis can be applied, but these are usually expensive and time-consuming. Therefore computational approaches like molecular docking may offer a valuable alternative for the characterization of antibody-antigen complexes.Here we describe a protocol for the prediction of the 3D structure of antibody-antigen complexes using the integrative modelling platform HADDOCK. The protocol consists of (1) the identification of the antibody residues belonging to the hypervariable loops which are known to be crucial for the binding and can be used to guide the docking and (2) the detailed steps to perform docking with the HADDOCK 2.4 webserver following different strategies depending on the availability of information about epitope residues.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMethods in Molecular Biology
EditorsKouhei Tsumoto, Daisuke Kuroda
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherHumana Press
Pages267-282
Number of pages16
Volume2552
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-0716-2609-2
ISBN (Print)978-1-0716-2608-5, 978-1-0716-2611-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume2552
ISSN (Print)1064-3745
ISSN (Electronic)1940-6029

Keywords

  • Antibody
  • HADDOCK
  • Information-driven docking

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