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From the * Medical Research Council Cellular Immunology Unit, Sir William Dunn School of
Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, United Kingdom; The structurally related T cell surface molecules CD28 and CTLA-4 interact with cell surface
ligands CD80 (B7-1) and CD86 (B7-2) on antigen-presenting cells (APC) and modulate T cell
antigen recognition. Preliminary reports have suggested that CD80 binds CTLA-4 and CD28
with affinities (Kd values ~12 and ~200 nM, respectively) that are high when compared with
other molecular interactions that contribute to T cell-APC recognition. In the present study, we use surface plasmon resonance to measure the affinity and kinetics of CD80 binding to
CD28 and CTLA-4. At 37°C, soluble recombinant CD80 bound to CTLA-4 and CD28 with
Kd values of 0.42 and 4 µM, respectively. Kinetic analysis indicated that these low affinities were the result of very fast dissociation rate constants (koff); sCD80 dissociated from CD28 and
CTLA-4 with koff values of
Laboratory of Molecular
Biophysics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom; § Bristol-Myers Squibb
Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98121;
Molecular Sciences Division, Nuffield
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU,
United Kingdom
1.6 and
0.43 s
1, respectively. Such rapid binding kinetics have
also been reported for the T cell adhesion molecule CD2 and may be necessary to accommodate dynamic T cell-APC contacts and to facilitate scanning of APC for antigen.
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