Deciphering the crystal structure of a novel nanobody against the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase.
Thompson, M.K., Sharma, N., Thorn, A., Prakash, A.(2024) Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 80: 137-146
- PubMed: 38289715 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S205979832400038X
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
8FTT - PubMed Abstract: 
Nanobodies (VHHs) are single-domain antibodies with three antigenic CDR regions and are used in diverse scientific applications. Here, an ∼14 kDa nanobody (A5) specific for the endonuclease VIII (Nei)-like 1 or NEIL1 DNA glycosylase involved in the first step of the base-excision repair pathway was crystallized and its structure was determined to 2.1 Å resolution. The crystals posed challenges due to potential twinning and anisotropic diffraction. Despite inconclusive twinning indicators, reprocessing in an orthorhombic setting and molecular replacement in space group P2 1 2 1 2 enabled the successful modeling of 96% of residues in the asymmetric unit, with final R work and R free values of 0.199 and 0.229, respectively.
- Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama Health, 1660 Springhill Avenue, Mobile, AL 36604, USA.
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