The 1.25 A resolution refinement of the cholera toxin B-pentamer: evidence of peptide backbone strain at the receptor-binding site
| Autor: | Wim G. J. Hol, Ethan A. Merritt, Steve Sarfaty, Jarrod L. Erbe, Randall K. Holmes, Peter Kuhn |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
chemistry.chemical_classification
Models Molecular Cholera Toxin Binding Sites Disulfide Linkage Stereochemistry Pentamer Protein Conformation Resolution (electron density) Cholera toxin Peptide Receptors Cell Surface Crystal structure G(M1) Ganglioside medicine.disease_cause Crystallography X-Ray Bond length Crystallography chemistry Structural Biology medicine Solvents Molecule Molecular Biology Hydrogen |
| Zdroj: | Journal of molecular biology. 282(5) |
| ISSN: | 0022-2836 |
| Popis: | Crystals of the 61 kDa complex of the cholera toxin B-pentamer with the ganglioside GM1 receptor pentasaccharide diffract to near-atomic resolution. We have refined the crystallographic model for this complex using anisotropic displacement parameters for all atoms to a conventional crystallographic residual R=0.129 for all observed Bragg reflections in the resolution range 22 A to 1.25 A. Remarkably few residues show evidence of discrete conformational disorder. A notable exception is a minority conformation found for the Cys9 side-chain, which implies that the Cys9-Cys86 disulfide linkage is incompletely formed. In all five crystallographically independent instances, the peptide backbone in the region of the receptor-binding site shows evidence of strain, including unusual bond lengths and angles, and a highly non-planar (omega=153.7(7) degrees) peptide group between residues Gln49 and Val50. The location of well-ordered water molecules at the protein surface is notable reproduced among the five crystallographically independent copies of the peptide chain, both at the receptor-binding site and elsewhere. The 5-fold non-crystallographic symmetry of this complex allows an evaluation of the accuracy, reproducibility, and derived error estimates from refinement of large structures at near-atomic resolution. We find that blocked-matrix treatment of parameter covariance underestimates the uncertainty of atomic positions in the final model by approximately 10% relative to estimates based either on full-matrix inversion or on the 5-fold non-crystallographic symmetry. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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