Allergen-induced structural rearrangements in IgE: insights from SAXS and molecular dynamics.

Gómez-Velasco H, García-Ramírez B, Siliqi D, Graewert MA, Quintero-Martinez A, Ortega E, Rodríguez-Romero A, Int J Biol Macromol :147658 (2025) Europe PMC

SASDXK4 – Mouse murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibody

Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies
MWI(0) 0 kDa
MWexpected 165 kDa
VPorod 420 nm3
log I(s) 2.09×10-2 2.09×10-3 2.09×10-4 2.09×10-5
Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies Guinier plot ln 2.10×10-2 Rg: 5.2 nm 0 (5.2 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies pair distance distribution function Rg: 5.4 nm 0 Dmax: 16.3 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies DAMMIF model

log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies CHIMERA model

The molecular weight estimate is an approximation; the actual molecular weight can vary depending on the specific glycosylation patterns and modifications of the IgE molecule. In this way, the estimated MW is approximately 200 kDa. For the model for IgE structure, we developed a hybrid model inspired by Jansen et al., 2020. This model incorporates two Fab regions (allergen excluded) from the crystallographic structure (PDB entry 7SBD), combined with an extended human Fc fragment (CH2-CH3-CH4) from PDB entry 4J4P. The hybrid model was manually fitted into a low-resolution SAXS envelope obtained by using the DAMMIF, DAMAVER, and DAMMIN programs.

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of Mouse complex murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibody in 20 mM Tris, 50 mM NaCl, pH 8.4 were collected on the P12 beamline at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) using a Pilatus 6M-Dectris detector at a sample-detector distance of 3.0 m and a wavelength of λ = 0.124 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A 50.00 μl sample at 6.0 mg/ml was injected at a 0.75 ml/min flow rate onto a GE Superdex 200 Increase 10/300 column at 15°C. 3000 successive 1.0-second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

Murine Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies (IgE)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Mus musculus
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   165.4 kDa
Sequence   FASTA