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Using phage display for rational engineering of a higher-affinity humanized 3’ phosphohistidine-specific antibody
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Histidine phosphorylation is a non-canonical post-translational modification (PTM), with 1-phosphohistidine (1-pHis) and 3-phosphohistidine (3-pHis) isoforms, that is understudied due to a lack of robust reagents, including high-affinity pHis-specific antibodies. Engineering pHis antibodies is challenging due to the labile nature of its phosphoramidate (P-N) bond. We developed a strategy for in vitro engineering of antibodies for the detection of native 3-pHis targets, in which the rabbit SC44-8 anti-3-pTza mAb is humanized into a scaffold (hSC44) that is suitable for phage display. Six unique Fab phage-displayed hSC44 scaffold libraries were screened for antibodies that bound 3-pHis with higher affinity and had specificity for 3-pHis versus 3-pTza. hSC44.20N32FL, the best engineered antibody, has ~10-fold higher affinity for 3-pHis than parental hSC44. Eleven new Fab structures, including the first antibody-pHis peptide structures, together with structural and quantum mechanical calculations, provided molecular insights into 3-pHis and 3-pTza discrimination by hSC44.20N32FL and the increased affinity obtained through engineering. We demonstrated the utility of these high-affinity 3-pHis-specific antibodies for the recognition of pHis proteins in mammalian cells by immunoblotting and immunofluorescence staining. Our work describes a general method for engineering labile PTM-specific antibodies and provides novel antibodies for investigating the role of 3-pHis in cell biology. Histidine phosphorylation is an elusive post-translational modification (PTM) whose role in mammalian cell biology is largely unknown due to the lack of robust tools and methods for its analysis. Here, the authors report the development of antibodies with unprecedented affinity and specificity towards 3-pHis and present the first crystal structures of a pHis peptide in complex with an antibody, showing how these antibodies can be used in standard molecular biology workflows to investigate pHis-dependent biology.
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