STRUCTURAL DETAILS OF RIBONUCLEASE-H FROM ESCHERICHIA-COLI AS REFINED TO AN ATOMIC RESOLUTION
STRUCTURAL DETAILS OF RIBONUCLEASE-H FROM ESCHERICHIA-COLI AS REFINED TO AN ATOMIC RESOLUTION
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(92)90260-q
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发表时间:
1992-02-20
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
MORIKAWA, K
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作者:
KATAYANAGI, K;MIYAGAWA, M;MORIKAWA, K
The crystal structure of RNase H fromEscherichia colihas been determined by the multiple isomorphous replacement method, and refined by the stereochemically restrained leastsquares procedure to a crystallographicR-factor of 0.196 at 1.48 Å resolution. In the final structure, the root-mean-square (r.m.s.) deviation for bond lengths is 0.017 Å, and for angle distances 0.036 Å. The structure is composed of a five-stranded β-sheet and five α-helices, and reveals the details of hydrogen bonding, electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions between intra- and intermolecular residues. The refined structure allows an explanation of the particular interactions between the basic protrusion, consisting of helix αIII and the following loop, and the remaining major domain. The β-sheet, αII, αIII and αIV form a central hydrophobic cleft that contains all six tryptophan residues, and presumably serves to fix the orientation of the basic protrusion. Two parallel adjacent helices, αI and αIV, are associated with a few triads of hydrophobic interactions, including many leucine residues, that are similar to the repeated leucine motif. The well-defined electron density map allows detailed discussion of amino acid residues likely to be involved in binding a DNA/RNA hybrid, and construction of a putative model of the enzyme complexed with a DNA/RNA hybrid oligomer. In this model, a protein region, from the Mg2+-binding site to the basic protrusion, covers roughly two turns of a DNA/RNA hybrid double helix. A segment (11–23) containing six glycine residues forms a long loop between the βA and βB strands. This loop, which protrudes into the solvent region, lies on the interface between the enzyme and a DNA/RNA hybrid in the model of the complex. The mean temperature factors of main-chain atoms show remarkably high values in helix αIII that constitutes the basic protrusion, suggesting some correlation between its flexibility and the nucleic acid binding function. The Mg2+-binding site, surrounded by four invariant acidic residues, can now be described more precisely in conjunction with the catalytic activity. The arrangement of molecules within the crystal appears to be dominated by the cancelling out of a remarkably biased charge distribution on the molecular surface, which is derived in particular from the separation between the acidic Mg2+-binding site and the basic protrusion.