The structure of augmenter of liver regeneration crystallized in the presence of 50 mM CdCl2 reveals a novel Cd2Cl4O6 cluster that aids in crystal packing.

Autor: Florence Q; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA., Wu CK, Habel J, Swindell JT 2nd, Wang BC, Rose JP
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography [Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr] 2012 Sep; Vol. 68 (Pt 9), pp. 1128-33. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Aug 18.
DOI: 10.1107/S0907444912022561
Abstrakt: The crystal structure of the protein augmenter of liver regeneration containing a 14-residue hexahistidine purification tag (hsALR) has been determined to 2.4 Å resolution by Cd-SAD using a highly redundant data set collected on a rotating-anode home X-ray source and processed in 1998. The hsALR crystal structure is a tetramer composed of two homodimers bridged by a novel Cd(2)Cl(4)O(6) cluster via binding to the side-chain carboxylate groups of two solvent-exposed aspartic acid residues. A comparison with the native sALR tetramer shows that the cluster dramatically changes the hsALR dimer-dimer interface, which can now better accommodate the extra 14 N-terminal residues associated with the purification tag. The refined 2.4 Å resolution structure is in good agreement with both the X-ray data (R(cryst) of 0.165, R(free) of 0.211) and the expected stereochemistry (r.m.s. deviations from ideality for bond lengths and bond angles of 0.007 Å and 1.15°, respectively).
Databáze: MEDLINE