STRUCTURE OF MYOHEMERYTHRIN IN THE AZIDOMET STATE AT 1.7/1.3-A RESOLUTION
STRUCTURE OF MYOHEMERYTHRIN IN THE AZIDOMET STATE AT 1.7/1.3-A RESOLUTION
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(87)90124-0
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发表时间:
1987-09-20
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
SMITH, JL
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作者:
SHERIFF, S;HENDRICKSON, WA;SMITH, JL
The molecular model of myohemerythrin, an oxygen-carrying protein from sipunculan worms, has been refined by stereochemically restrained least-squares minimization at 1.7/1.3 .ANG. resolution to a conventional R-value of 0.158. The estimated positional standard deviation is better than 0.15 .ANG. for most of the 979 protein atoms. The average isotropic displacement parameter, B, for the protein atoms is 23.1 .ANG.2. This high average B parameter appears to be due to the overall motion of the molecule, which correlates with the observed anisotropic diffraction. The side-chains of seven residues were modeled in two conformations, i.e. the side-chains were discretely disordered, and B parameters for several lysine and glutamate side-chains indicate that they are poorly localized. Of the residues in myohemerythrin, 66% are helical, with 62% occurring in four long .alpha.-helices with mean values for the backbone torsion angles of .vphi. = -65.degree., .psi. = -42.degree., and for the hydrogen bonds distances of N...O, 3.0 .ANG. and H...0, 2.1 .ANG., and angles of N....cxa.H.dbd.C, 153.degree., N.sbd..cxa.H...O, 157.degree., and H....cxa.O.dbd.C, 147.degree.. For two-thirds of the .alpha.-helical residues, the torsional rotation of the C.alpha..sbd.C.beta. bond, .chi.1, is approximately -60.degree., and for one-third .chi.1 is approximately 180.degree.. Although most turns in myohemerythrin are well-categorized by previous classification, two do not fit in established patterns. Also included in the refined model are three sulfate ions, all partially occupied. Only one water molecule is internal to the protein, the remainder occur on the surface and are observed principally between symmetry-related molecules contributing, along with van der Waals'' contacts, most of the interactions between molecules. There are eight intermolecular protein-protein hydrogen bonds, of which only four are between well-located atoms.