3ftl

From Proteopedia

NVGSNTY segment from Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP or Amylin), dehydrated crystal form

PDB ID 3ftl

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Structural highlights

3ftl is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:	X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.6Å
Resources:	FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

IAPP_HUMAN Selectively inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose utilization and glycogen deposition in muscle, while not affecting adipocyte glucose metabolism.

Publication Abstract from PubMed

In prion inheritance and transmission, strains are phenotypic variants encoded by protein 'conformations'. However, it is unclear how a protein conformation can be stable enough to endure transmission between cells or organisms. Here we describe new polymorphic crystal structures of segments of prion and other amyloid proteins, which offer two structural mechanisms for the encoding of prion strains. In packing polymorphism, prion strains are encoded by alternative packing arrangements (polymorphs) of beta-sheets formed by the same segment of a protein; in segmental polymorphism, prion strains are encoded by distinct beta-sheets built from different segments of a protein. Both forms of polymorphism can produce enduring conformations capable of encoding strains. These molecular mechanisms for transfer of protein-encoded information into prion strains share features with the familiar mechanism for transfer of nucleic acid-encoded information into microbial strains, including sequence specificity and recognition by noncovalent bonds.

Molecular mechanisms for protein-encoded inheritance.,Wiltzius JJ, Landau M, Nelson R, Sawaya MR, Apostol MI, Goldschmidt L, Soriaga AB, Cascio D, Rajashankar K, Eisenberg D Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2009 Sep;16(9):973-8. Epub 2009 Aug 16. PMID:19684598^[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

References

↑ Wiltzius JJ, Landau M, Nelson R, Sawaya MR, Apostol MI, Goldschmidt L, Soriaga AB, Cascio D, Rajashankar K, Eisenberg D. Molecular mechanisms for protein-encoded inheritance. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2009 Sep;16(9):973-8. Epub 2009 Aug 16. PMID:19684598 doi:10.1038/nsmb.1643