8ZJX | pdb_00008zjx

Cryo-EM structure of the full length pAg-bound BTN2A1-BTN3A1-BTN3A2 in complex with Vgamma9-Vdelta2 TCR (MOP genotype)

• PDB DOI: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb8ZJX/pdb
• EM Map EMD-60159: EMDB EMDataResource

• Classification: IMMUNE SYSTEM
• Organism(s): Homo sapiens
• Expression System: Homo sapiens
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 2024-05-15 Released: 2025-11-26 
• Deposition Author(s): Xin, W., Huang, B., Su, Q., Zhou, Q.
• Funding Organization(s): National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
• Resolution: 3.35 Å
• Aggregation State: PARTICLE 
• Reconstruction Method: SINGLE PARTICLE 

Literature

Phosphoantigen-Driven Dissociation of Butyrophilin Oligomers Activates gamma delta T Cells

Xin, W., Huang, B., Gao, W., Zhang, W., Hu, Y., Liu, Y., Liang, E., Shi, Y., Su, Q., Zhou, Q.

(2025) bioRxiv 

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.26.677252

Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 6-mer - A2B1C1D1E1 Pseudo Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Pseudo Stoichiometry: Hetero 6-mer - A1B1C1D1E1F1 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Biological Assembly Evidence: electron microscopy

Macromolecule Content 

• Total Structure Weight: 285.82 kDa 
• Atom Count: 17,386 
• Modeled Residue Count: 2,193 
• Deposited Residue Count: 2,546 
• Unique protein chains: 5

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
Butyrophilin subfamily 2 member A1	A, B	534	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: BTN2A1, BT2.1, BTF1
UniProt & NIH Common Fund Data Resources
Find proteins for Q7KYR7 (Homo sapiens) Explore Q7KYR7  Go to UniProtKB:  Q7KYR7
PHAROS:  Q7KYR7 GTEx:  ENSG00000112763

Entity ID: 2
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
T cell receptor delta variable 2,T cell receptor delta constant 1	C [auth D]	332	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0

Entity ID: 3
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
Butyrophilin subfamily 3 member A2	D [auth E]	340	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: BTN3A2, BT3.2, BTF3, BTF4
UniProt & NIH Common Fund Data Resources
Find proteins for P78410 (Homo sapiens) Explore P78410  Go to UniProtKB:  P78410
PHAROS:  P78410 GTEx:  ENSG00000186470

Entity ID: 4
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
Butyrophilin subfamily 3 member A1	E [auth F]	539	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: BTN3A1, BTF5
UniProt & NIH Common Fund Data Resources
Find proteins for O00481 (Homo sapiens) Explore O00481  Go to UniProtKB:  O00481
PHAROS:  O00481 GTEx:  ENSG00000026950

Entity ID: 5
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
T cell receptor gamma variable 9,T cell receptor gamma constant 1	F [auth G]	267	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0

Small Molecules

Ligands 1 Unique
ID	Chains	Name / Formula / InChI Key	2D Diagram
H6P (Subject of Investigation/LOI)	G [auth F]	(2E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl trihydrogen diphosphate C5 H12 O8 P2 MDSIZRKJVDMQOQ-GORDUTHDSA-N

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
• Resolution: 3.35 Å
• Aggregation State: PARTICLE 
• Reconstruction Method: SINGLE PARTICLE 

EM Software:

Task	Software Package	Version
MODEL REFINEMENT	PHENIX
RECONSTRUCTION	RELION	5

Structure Validation

Entry History 

& Funding Information

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 2025-11-26 
Deposition Author(s): Xin, W., Huang, B., Su, Q., Zhou, Q.

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Funding Organization	Location	Grant Number
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	China	32100975

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2025-11-26
  Type: Initial release