Imperial College London

Dr Lata Govada

Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Research Associate
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 3037l.govada

 
 
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Location

 

Open Plan no 12Sir Alexander Fleming BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Chain:2015:10.1371/journal.pone.0128381,
author = {Chain, B and Arnold, J and Akthar, S and Brandt, M and Davis, D and Noursadeghi, M and Lapp, T and Ji, C and Sankuratri, S and Zhang, Y and Govada, L and Saridakis, E and Chayen, N},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0128381},
journal = {PLOS One},
title = {A Linear Epitope in the N-Terminal Domain of CCR5 and Its Interaction with Antibody.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128381},
volume = {10},
year = {2015}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - The CCR5 receptor plays a role in several key physiological and pathological processes and is an important therapeutic target. Inhibition of the CCR5 axis by passive or active immunisation offers one very selective strategy for intervention. In this study we define a new linear epitope within the extracellular domain of CCR5 recognised by two independently produced monoclonal antibodies. A short peptide encoding the linear epitope can induce antibodies which recognise the intact receptor when administered colinear with a tetanus toxoid helper T cell epitope. The monoclonal antibody RoAb 13 is shown to bind to both cells and peptide with moderate to high affinity (6x10^8 and 1.2x107 M-1 respectively), and binding to the peptide is enhanced by sulfation of tyrosines at positions 10 and 14. RoAb13, which has previously been shown to block HIV infection, also blocks migration of monocytes in response to CCR5 binding chemokines and to inflammatory macrophage conditioned medium. A Fab fragment of RoAb13 has been crystallised and a structure of the antibody is reported to 2.1 angstrom resolution.
AU - Chain,B
AU - Arnold,J
AU - Akthar,S
AU - Brandt,M
AU - Davis,D
AU - Noursadeghi,M
AU - Lapp,T
AU - Ji,C
AU - Sankuratri,S
AU - Zhang,Y
AU - Govada,L
AU - Saridakis,E
AU - Chayen,N
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0128381
PY - 2015///
SN - 1932-6203
TI - A Linear Epitope in the N-Terminal Domain of CCR5 and Its Interaction with Antibody.
T2 - PLOS One
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128381
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/23521
VL - 10
ER -