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Structure and Assembly

Variable Surface Epitopes in the Crystal Structure of Dengue Virus Type 3 Envelope Glycoprotein

Yorgo Modis, Steven Ogata, David Clements, Stephen C. Harrison
Yorgo Modis
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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2Hawaii Biotech, Inc., Aiea, Hawaii
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Stephen C. Harrison
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DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.2.1223-1231.2005
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    Structure of the sE dimer of dengue virus E sE in the mature virus particle. (A) The three domains of dengue virus sE. Domain I is red, domain II is yellow, and domain III is blue. A 53-residue stem segment links the stably folded sE fragment with the C-terminal transmembrane anchor. (B) The DEN-3 sE dimer viewed along its twofold symmetry axis. (C) The sE dimer viewed perpendicular to its twofold axis. The two glycans on residues 67 and 153 of the two subunits (A and B) of the dimer are labeled.

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    Contacts involving the glycans of sE between molecules related by the crystal symmetry. A closeup of the sE dimer (in red, yellow, and blue for domains I, II, and III, respectively) viewed from the side (inset) shows that both glycans form crystal contacts with an adjacent molecule in the crystal (shown in lighter colors). Mannose residues in the glycan on Asn-153 of chain A form hydrogen bonds with the main chain and side-chain oxygen atoms of Ser-16 and the side-chain amine of Lys-36. The N-acetylglucosamine linked to Asn-67 of chain B forms a hydrogen bond with a mannose in the glycan on Asn-153 of chain B of a neighboring molecule in the crystal.

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    Structure of the DEN-3 sE dimer superimposed on the DEN-2 sE dimer, using domain I from one monomer as the reference, viewed along the twofold symmetry axes (A) and perpendicular to the twofold axes (B). The greatest difference between the two structures is a ∼10° rotation of domain II relative to domain I about a point near Gly-188 (indicated by a grey star). (C) The DEN-3 sE dimer with residues that are not conserved in DEN-2 is shown in space-filling representation. Residues that are exposed on the viral surface are in magenta; residues that are not exposed are in grey. (D) The same structure as in panel C but viewed perpendicular to the twofold axis.

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    Antibody neutralization-escape mutants in dengue virus. (A) Three serotype-specific epitopes have been reported: residue 291 (2), residues 301 to 307 (29), and residues 381 to 383 (17, 18). Side chains in all three epitopes are shown on the DEN-3 E structure in magenta in space-filling representation. Changes at residue 388 (in pink), also unconserved and exposed, correlate with changes in virulence (28). Phe-277 (in green) is conserved in the dengue virus serotypes, but its mutation to serine during passaging in cell culture leads to escape from neutralization by IgM M10 (2, 27). (B) A side view of panel A is shown. (C) Stereoscopic view of a close-up of DEN-3 domain III, showing the four proposed serotype-specific epitopes. The orientation is halfway between the orientations used in the models shown in panels A and B, and the close-up is of the copy of domain III shown on the right in panels A and B. (D) The same view as in panel C is shown, but of DEN-2 (and with the homologous residues highlighted).

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    Data set (space group)P212121
    Molecules per asymmetric unit2
    Cell edges a, b, c (Å)52.9, 68.6, 270.2
    Resolution range (Å)20-3.6
    % Completenessa92 (81)
    I/σ(I)a12.3 (2.6)
    Rmerge (%)a12.0 (53.8)
    Unique reflections12,090
    Rcrystb0.279
    Rfreec0.324
    Avg B factor (Å2)
        Protein (chains A and B)73.6, 74.1
        Water molecules41.7
    Rmsdd bond length (Å)0.009
    Rmsd bond angle (°)1.532
    Rmsd bonded B factor (Å2)
        Main chain2.65
        Side chain3.45
    Ramachandran plot (%)
        Favored71.1
        Allowed28.2
        Generous0.7
        Disallowed0
    • ↵ a Numbers in parentheses are for the highest-resolution shell, 3.73 to 3.60 Å.

    • ↵ b Rcryst, Σhkl‖Fobs| − |〈Fcalc〉‖/Σhkl|Fobs|.

    • ↵ c Rfree, Rcryst with 5% of Fobs sequestered before refinement.

    • ↵ d Rmsd, root mean square difference.

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    Dengue virus mutationsa

    MutationSerotypeMAbPhenotypeExplanation
    T(Q)293I DEN-1IgM M17More virulent and hemagglutinating at pH 5.8-7At a hinge between domains I and III; may rigidify the hinge, requiring lower pH for conformational switch (2)
    K307E DEN-2IgG G8D11NoneIgG G8D11 may interfere with receptor binding (29)
    E311GDEN-2IgM 6B2NoneIgM 6B2 may interfere with receptor binding (32)
    E383G P384E/D/N G385K/S/A DEN-2IgG 3H5Reduced mouse neurovirulence.IgG 3H5 may interfere with receptor binding (17), probably in mosquito cells and not in human cells (18)
    • ↵ a Mutations in dengue virus that lead to escape from neutralization by monoclonal antibodies, resulting phenotypes, and possible explanations based on the structures of sE of DEN-2 and -3. Residue numbers refer to DEN-2. For unconserved residues, the residue type in DEN-2 is listed in parentheses before the residue number. Residues that are unconserved among dengue serotypes are in boldface type.

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Variable Surface Epitopes in the Crystal Structure of Dengue Virus Type 3 Envelope Glycoprotein
Yorgo Modis, Steven Ogata, David Clements, Stephen C. Harrison
Journal of Virology Dec 2004, 79 (2) 1223-1231; DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.2.1223-1231.2005
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