PROTEIN X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Our experiment involves protein crystal x-ray diffraction data collection using the high energy synchrotron beamline. Multiple-wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) and/or single-wavelength anomalous diffraction (SAD) experiments are carried out at beam energies close to the absorption edge of heavy atoms present in the crystal, usually selenium. Most of the macromolecules that we have under study relate to one or more of a few main biological subjects: cell surface interactions and signal transduction, immune response interactions, cellular responses to stress, genetic replication and transcription, carbohydrate recognition, and oxygen transport. Others have been chosen as subject for methodology development or for the analysis of general structural principles. Specific crystalline molecules that we are presently studying include the CD4 T-cell co-receptors, T-cell receptors, MHC molecules, superantigens, stem cell factor, fibroblast growth factor, insulin receptor, lymphocyte kinase, HIV envelope glycoprotein, FHIT, myelin Po, N- cadherin, ribonuclease H, carbamyl phosphate synthetase, UmuD, DnaK, streptavidin, and hemocyanin.